In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ____________.
A. the microcosm of human society
B. the search for truth
C. the unknown world
D. Nature
Identify the author of the following excerpt.From the ship's bows, nearly all the seamen now hung inactive; hammers, bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their hands, just as they had darted from their various employments; all their enchanted eyes intent upon the whale, which from side to side strangely vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading semicircular foam before him as he rushed.
A. Herman Melville
B. Ralph Emerson
C. Washington Irving
D. Edgar Allan Poe