Question

Which best explains why Melville refers to Captain Ahab as “supreme lord and dictator” in the first paragraph of Chapter 28 of Moby-ick? to show that Captain Ahab trusts his men to make decisions for him to show that Captain Ahab distributes power equally among his crew to show that Captain Ahab is the only decision maker on board the ship to show that Captain Ahab is the only person allowed to work on deck

Answer 1

The correct answer is to show that Captain Ahab is the only real decision maker on the ship.  He is the one who decides on all the important issues and makes others follow him in his mad pursuit of The Whale. Other crew members are expected to blindly follow him and obey his rules.

Answer 2

The answer choice which best explains why Melville refers to Captain Ahab as “supreme lord and dictator” in the first paragraph of Chapter 28 of Moby-ick is to show that Captain Ahab is the only real decision maker on the ship.

Who is Captain Ahab?

This is a fictional character who is in charge of a ship and while on one of his expeditions, he has his leg chopped off by a great whale.

Hence, we can see that he is the sole commander of the ship as the other crew members have to defer to him and obey his authority without question.

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