AN OCEAN OF VOICES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DISCOURSES OF RELIGION AND COLORS IN THE NOVEL MOBY-DICK
Moby-Dick; Dialogism; Religious discourse; Discourse about colors.
In 1851, one of the greatest American classical works was published: Moby-Dick. Written by Herman Melville, the piece was misunderstood and did not receive its due attention, being rediscovered in the decade of 1920. One of the reasons for this misinterpretation can be found in the way the book was written, since it was a tome of references that dialogued with the reader through a maritime narrative. The current dissertation aims to analyze the different discourses which permeate the piece, with the focus on the discourse about religion, as well to study the various perspectives involving colors, using as a basis the dialogical perspective from the circle, mainly the writings by Bakhtin. This work proposes to expatiate about how these two characteristics become the fuel for the Melvillian creation regarding Moby-Dick, besides exposing how they are presented to the reader via the narrator Ishmael. For this objective, there will be analyzed extracts from the novel, in a way of tracing a panorama of these discourses through the whole text, having in mind how they present themselves and in which manner they are put on the literary text.