"I see a madman beget madmen," Starbuck declares as the chase after Moby Dick is nearing its end, and as Captain Ahab is firing the crew of the Pequod to a frenzy of excitement. The trouble is ...

Elijah remonstrates with Ahab, corrupt ruler of the Israelites; predicts drought and famine as punishment thereby incurring vehement anger from the adherents of their pagan deity Baal; living as a ...