LOVE/HATRED DYNAMICS IN MOBY-DICK
LOVE/HATRED DYNAMICS IN MOBY-DICK

Summary/Abstract: This article is one in a series of articles about the connections between the American author Herman Melville and the Romanian writer V. Voiculescu. In the previous articles we explored the similarities between the two authors’ work, namely, the novel Moby Dick and V. Voiculescu’s fantastic short stories, and the Leviathan, or the fascinating monster, as the central image of Herman Melville’s novel. Among the favorite themes of the two authors one can mention the regression of the human hero to the animal regnum, or the opposite, the anthropomorphic animal present in the text, or the theme of the quest – all of these previously explored. In this article, the method of analysis is close reading, and our main focus was on the love/hatred relationship between Herman Melville’s hero and the animal monster, once more directly linked to the central image of the text, the monster-whale.

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