![]() ![]() ![]() He feels that his dreadful punishment is just. Finally, Jonah accepts the situation, “For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance. ![]() He feels fear for God’s wrath, which he can call down, “I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!” (Melville 57). The main character of the priest’s sermon wants to escape God’s commands by escaping from any country, where God may watch the people’s doings, “a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign” (Melville 54). Atonement can be deserved by God’s grace and needs obedience to God’s anger (Talley 55). It means that everyone on earth is perverted to the original sin that arose from Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden. Melville rejects the idea of original sin. It seems to me that the story is called for teaching people not to escape God’s commands in order not to experience sufferings, as “we must disobey ourselves and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists” ( Melville 53), “…higher the top of that delight than the bottom of the woe is deep” (Melville 60). ![]() The homily is based on the story of Jonah and the whale, which takes a major part of the sermon, where the priest foreshadows the struggle of Ahab and Moby Dick. Ishmael and Queequeg attend the Whaleman’s Chapel before leaving New Bedford, where Father Mapple preaches a sermon. ![]()
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