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Queequeg. Cool name, but is he a cool guy? Guess you’ll have to check out the video to find out. Because surprisingly enough, Googling, “is Queequeg a cool guy?” didn’t yield any results. C’mon, internet. Get on our level.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak Moby dick who eke wag allah
- 00:10
Shmoop the book begins to play out on and we
- 00:15
meet early on Quick wag awesome name Who is this
- 00:19
guy and tell us about him What is his functions
- 00:21
Yeah Quick wag Uh this guy's a caricature Hey is
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- 00:26
our typical black savage that we see in a lot
- 00:29
of literature and you know for that reason criticize melville
- 00:34
why's he characterizing this guy's way So he is his
- 00:37
character tes he's a racist archetype He talks funny He
- 00:43
has kind of a goofy name Quick wag He carries
- 00:47
a shrunken head around with him and he's actually eaten
- 00:52
a guy before things like this cannibal But what melville
- 00:57
seems to really be trying to do is show that
- 00:59
this person who all these you know nantucket christians think
- 01:05
is a savage is actually the least savage of of
- 01:09
everyone He is first of all royalty He's like the
- 01:13
prince of like a fictional island And ishmael actually called
- 01:18
him the prince of whales But she yeah everyone thinks
- 01:24
he's weird but he he doesn't drink Think about this
- 01:27
like being on a boat like sailor drinks like a
- 01:30
sailor that saying like and he doesn't drink so he's
- 01:32
kind of a little bit more you know refines in
- 01:35
these guys He's modest he's a good friend to ishmael
- 01:38
he like offers him money and help He ends up
- 01:41
drawling with this guy and then when the guy falls
- 01:43
in the water he jumps over to help him so
- 01:46
well he's characterized as as this kind of savage archetype
- 01:51
in reality he's you know a better person than these
- 01:55
nantucket christians who were supposed to be seeing as you
- 01:59
know in the right So again wei come back to
- 02:01
melville's exploration of religion and kind of the idea of
- 02:05
open mindedness about it which quick quick is very open
- 02:08
minded about religion Where is you know the christians think
- 02:11
he's you know a pagan quick what kind of open
- 02:15
to there to there christianity Who is quick leg What
- 02:21
is his function Why on earth does he have such 00:02:24.133 --> [endTime] a goofy name
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