Argument

//Moby Dick// is a novel written by Herman Melville in the late 1800s. Throughout this time period there was a great amount of change and industrialization. And at the time, whale hunting was a big way of making money in the world. Melville's novel depicts much symbolism in his book, mostly to criticize the American ways. When reading and analyzing //Moby Dick// carefully, it is evident that there are some key factors that represent socialism and capitalism throughout the novel. Socialism is seen in //Moby Dick// through the crew. The crew and socialism go hand in hand because the crew's profits are determined by the captains who represent the governemnt but each crew member has a right to make their own profit. Capitalism is represented in the novel by the whale marketing system, because in whaling the “means of production are mostly privately owned.” Also, like capitalism the whaling system is free of government rule and the people working can only invest by production.