Written a century apart the two books, "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville in 1851, and "The old man and the sea", by Ernest Hemingway in 1952, create worlds that are based on similar themes, which share motifs and teach lessons of life.
"Moby Dick" is a novel that places its action on the sea and involves the work of whale hunters. The author creates a macrocosm- the sea and a microcosm the ship "Pequod" where the crew formed of men from different races and social classes are gathered with one purpose to find and kill The White Whale.
In the novella "The old man and the sea" the action also takes place on the sea, it centers upon a Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream, it has fewer characters that don't intertwine, but we have an accentuated relationship between man and nature, between ethics and pride.
Some of these oppositions create themes shared by both books. Life versus death is a major theme because the characters value life and......
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