Moby Dick is a comprehensive encyclopedia, including history, philosophy and religion. But first of all, this is a Shakespeare-style tragedy, which tells the story of human beings struggling with overwhelming unfavorable factors in an indifferent and even hostile universe.

1. Moby Dick is a huge monster, into which the author keeps dumping everything he thinks is necessary to prove his point of view.

Moby Dick represents the sum total of Melville's pessimistic views on the world he lives in. It has neither god nor purpose. People in this universe live a meaningless and useless life, which is meaningless because it is useless.

3. An important theme of Melville is alienation. He feels that alienation exists at different levels of his life at that time, man and man, man and society, man and nature.

Moby Dick revealed the basic mode of American life in the19th century: loneliness and suicidal individualism in a self-styled democracy.