ON AHAB’S TRAGIC FATE IN MOBY DICK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECO-CRITICISM AcknowledgmentsI wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Ms. Tao Ruixuan and Ms. Wu Jingyuan. I am deeply grateful for not only their profound literary knowledge which triggered my interests in eco-criticism, but also for their patient guidance and insightful advice throughout the process of my writing. Without their generous help, detailed and responsible instruction, I can by no means bring forward this thesis by myself. Throughout my studies, I have to deliver my thanks to my classmates and friends for their generous help and invaluable support during these four years. Last but not least, I have to thanks myself, because during this time, I pay much attention to my thesis.AbstractIn recent years, more and more experts and scholars began to use different angles to interpret and explain the research of Melville and his works. The research on Moby Dick has been carried out from the aspects of narrative art, mythological archetypes and symbolic meanings. However, there is still space for research on the ecology of man and nature presented in Moby Dick, especially from the perspective of eco-criticism to analyze the tragic fate of Ahab and its causes.With the reading of the works and a great deal of information about eco-criticism and ecology ethics, and mainly based on the concept of the wilderness in eco-criticism, this thesis tries to analyze Moby Dick by using the new idea of ecological ethics to reveal the ecological thoughts that Melville embodied in this work so as to provide readers with a new perspective to understand the significance of the works in the context of the ...
