Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

5 reviews

hjb_128's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Racial slurs, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

Minor: Antisemitism and Grief

voilajean's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Racism

Moderate: Death, Racial slurs, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Antisemitism

sherbertwells's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The sole survivor of a shipwreck immortalizes its ill-fated final voyage: its crew, its prey and its captain’s monomaniacal obsession with the titular white whale. Verbose and glorious, and if Melville is not quite the American Shakespeare he is something deeper altogether.

“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began. Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?” (283)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, Antisemitism, and Cannibalism

yavin_iv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Racism, Xenophobia, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs and Medical trauma

Minor: Antisemitism and Cannibalism