International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT) ISSN: 2617-0299 www.ijllt.org A Determined Observation and the Investigation of Moby Dick as a Symbol of Evil Dr. Meenakshi Sharma Yadav 1 * & Dr. Manoj Kumar Yadav 2 1 Assistant Professor of English, Faculty of Languages and Translation (Community College for Girls, Abha), King Khalid University, Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2 Independent Assistant Professor and Researcher of English Literature, Lalawali (Bansur) Alwar, Rajasthan, India Corresponding Author: Dr. Meenakshi Sharma Yadav, E-mail: m-@kku.edu.sa ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Received: January 11, 2019 Accepted: February 28, 2019 Published: March 31, 2019 Volume: 2 Issue: 2 DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2019.2.2.30 This paper investigates the themes and symbols of evil, pain, and suffering in the novel, Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville, in which the narration is about a whale namely Moby Dick that attacked on the ship crew deadly in the ocean while the whale is in the white color which ought to be a symbol of the good spirit or the angel of the sea; but his evil nature and destructive attempts on the voyagers reveal him with a terrible and dreadful appearance which personifies and symbolizes to place for an evil object. The white whale, Moby Dick is an antagonist that plays a vital, dominant, and prominent role of the main character in the novel. Here, Moby Dick is not only a book about the protagonist Ahab’s quest for the White Whale, but Moby Dick also is an experience of the quest. It is full of the sea and the religious symbols. In this novel, symbols are based on both characters and objects. Some symbols are based on such characters as Ishmael, Queequeg, Ahab, Eliza, and Fedallah, whereas the objects, such as the White Whale - Moby Dick, the ship Pequod and the sea and the Cogfin. Related to the theory of symbolism, there are three kinds of symbols – natural symbols, conventional symbols, and private symbols. The mechanism of symbols has been applied in the form of pain and suffering in this paper that proves the white whale, Moby Dick is as a private symbol of an ambiguous creature precisely evil because of its evil nature and the destructive attempts throughout the novel. KEYWORDS Monomaniac Incarnation; Albino; Premonitory; Startling; Dogmatic; Malicious; Sinister; Annihilating 1. INTRODUCTION Herman Melville was that American writer who liked the Phoenix regenerated and revived after obscurity of a hundred and more years. His life had been a tearful and tedious tale of toil and moil, blood and labor. He was born in New York City (1819 - 1891) who was undoubtedly regarded as one of the great American writers - as a great American novelist, a short-story writer, a poet, and an intelligent child of American fiction. His literary works included him the best known among the readers. At the time of his youth, the glory desperately needed came from his magnum opus Moby Dick (1851) to which he was popularly known. But he was also known more for his masterpiece novels, Typee (1846), and Omoo (1847). He brought up in the ordinary whale merchant family under the shadow of the adverse and hard time situations. Unable to gain the desired job after completing his education in 1839, he started his job as a cabin boy for a merchant ship called the St. Lawrence, which traveled from New York City to Liverpool, England, and back to start. He got married Elizabeth Shaw in 1847 who was the daughter of the chief justice of Massachusetts, and they had four children. Melville was a brave, quicker, and sensible cabin boy among the crew whom everyone liked and loved as a colleague, a friend, and a knowledgeable person. He had the best knowledge about the nautical creatures and their ocean lives. He had heard about the many stories and tragedies on the whaling and ocean life. But this paper focuses to investigate the themes and subjects on the topic A Determined Observation and the Investigation of Moby Dick as a Symbol of Evil on the best way to the research. Moby Dick or The Whale is the allegorical nautical novel about Captain Ahab’s search to kill a great white whale, is based on real-life event. The American’s dominance of the whaling industry on the top during the novelist’s childhood after that the Civil War had started therefore it was weaving contemporary outlooks and his own experiences as a whaler, Melville created his American masterpiece this novel, Moby Dick on the inspiration of a true incident. Melville started to his voyage of a whaleship for Acushnet in 1841, that time he heard a terrible true