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Melville’s description of Ahab’s scar in this excerpt from ''Moby ick'' best develops the theme of: the ruling of man's present by his past wounds. This excerpt clearly shows that the scar that character attained in the past still has an influence on his life. The character feels the presence of the scar as if it was freshly got, and all this descriptive language stands as a metaphor of symbolic meaning of people's scars in their life and fate.
The ruling of man's present by his past wounds
Melville’s description of Ahab’s scar in this excerpt from ''Moby ick'' best develops the theme of the ruling of man's present by his past wounds. This excerpt clearly shows that the scar that the character attained in the past still has an influence on his life. The character feels the presence of the scar as if it was freshly got, and all this descriptive language stands as a metaphor for the symbolic meaning of people's cars in their life and fate.
The description that is being given in this excerpt talks about a wounded tree when in fact is talking about how a person is marked by their experiences in life and even when they might look strong on the outside there is an inner force that comes from that moment in their past that drives them into the person they are now, making their present affected by the experiences in the past.
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