“Thou Art Skylarking with Me”: Travesty, Prophecy, and Ethical Mutuality in Moby-Dick

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“A Bosom Friend,” Chapter 10 of Moby-Dick, concludes with a literary travesty on the Golden Rule, norm obligation to others as self. If God’s will is that we treat our neighbors ourselves, and if narrator, Ishmael, desires his neighbor Queequeg join him in Presbyterian worship, then he must new friend’s devotion god, Yojo: “ergo, I turn idolator.” This after Ishmael has heard Father Mapple’s sermon Jonah, become bedmate at Spouter-Inn New Bedford. also Mapple preach, though left early return inn. So scene framed by scenes. From one angle, putting Yojo beside biblical God, or whale hunting can seem dismiss absurd these juxtapositions’ terms questions: sin, designs prophetic calling versus fate, chance, whoever happens be one’s neighbor. another were such merely ‘travestied’ negation, little import would remain deploying them. essay considers how, Chapters 7–12, 16–18, 94, elsewhere Melville’s juxtaposing parody, satire, like compelling religious ethical concerns—a rhetoric occasionally calls “skylarking”—contributes novel’s realization narrative ethics mutuality.

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عنوان ژورنال: Religions

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2077-1444']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13121141