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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One Herman Melville and Moby Dick
1.1 Herman Melville and the Composition of Moby Dick
1.2 Synopsis of Moby-Dick
Chapter Two A True-life Reading of Moby-Dick
2.1 A Glimpse of Whaling Industry in the Mid 19th-century
2.2 Pequod, an Epitome of American Society
2.3 Friendship on Pequod
Chapter Three Allegorical and Symbolic Interpretation of Moby-Dick
3.1 Melville's Allegorical Borrowing of Biblical Allusions
3.2 Moby-Dick: a Web of Allegories and Symbols
Chapter Four The Mariners' Multiple Quest
4.1 Going to Sea
4.2 Terminal Truth: an Ungraspable Phantom of Life
4.3 A Quest: a Dialogue Between Civilization and Nature
Conclusion
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