Industrialism+Script


 * Scene One**

Ishmael/ Narrator – Olivia Queequeg – Adam Peleg – Oscar Bildad – Bradley

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Ishmael: "Is this the Captain of the Pequod? I was thinking of shipping."

Peleg: I see thou art no Nantucketer—ever been in a stove boat?"

Ishmael: "No, Sir, I never have."

Peleg: "Dost know nothing at all about whaling, I dare say—eh?

Ishmael: "Nothing, Sir; but I have no doubt I shall soon learn. I've been several voyages in the merchant service, and I think that—"

Peleg: "Merchant service be damned. I suppose now ye feel considerable proud of having served in those merchant ships. But what makes thee want to go a whaling, eh?

Ishmael: "Well, sir, I want to see what whaling is. I want to see the world."

Peleg: "Well, Captain Bildad, what d'ye say, what lay shall we give this young man?"

Bildad: "the seven hundred and seventy-seventh wouldn't be too much, would it?

Peleg: "Why, blast your eyes, Bildad, thou dost not want to swindle this young man! he must have more than that. I am going to put him down for the three hundredth. The three hundredth lay, I say."

Bildad: "Captain Peleg, thou hast a generous heart; but thou must consider the duty thou owest to the other owners of this ship—widows and orphans, many of them—and that if we too abundantly reward the labors of this young man, we may be taking the bread from those widows and those orphans. The seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay, Captain Peleg."

Narrator: Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily commanded.

Peleg: Well then, down ye go here, Ishmael, for the three hundredth lay." Iahmael: "Captain Peleg, I have a friend with me who wants to ship too

Peleg: “Tell Quohog there—what's that you call him? tell Quohog to step along. By the great anchor, what a harpoon he's got there! looks like good stuff that; and he handles it about right. I say, Quohog, or whatever your name is, did you ever stand in the head of a whale-boat? did you ever strike a fish?"

Narrator: Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats hanging to the side; and then bracing his left knee, and poising his harpoon, cried out in some such way as this:—

Queequeg: "Cap'ain, you see him small drop tar on water dere? You see him? well, spose him one whale eye!”

Narrator: Taking sharp aim at it, he darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across the ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.

Queequeg: "Now, spos-ee him whale-e eye; why, dad whale dead."

Peleg: "Quick, Bildad, quick, I say, you Bildad, and get the ship's papers. We must have Hedgehog there, I mean Quohog, in one of our boats. Look ye, Quohog, we'll give ye the ninetieth lay, and that's more than ever was given a harpooner yet out of Nantucket."

Narrator: So down we went into the cabin, and to my great joy Queequeg was soon enrolled among the same ship's company to which I myself belonged. I began to bethink me that the Captain with whom I was to sail yet remained unseen by me.


 * Scene Two**

Narrator – Olivia Ahab – Oscar Starbuck – Adam Stubb - Olivia Flask – Bradley Queequeg- Adam Tashtego - Oscar Dagoo - Bradley



Narrator: Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served. Ahab and his three mates formed what may be called the first table in the Pequod's cabin. After their departure, taking place in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward. And then the three harpooners were bidden to the feast.


 * Scene Three**

Ahab – Oscar Stubb – Olivia ......................................

Ahab: "But go thy ways; I had forgot. Below to thy nightly grave; where such as ye sleep between shrouds, —Down, dog, and kennel!"

Stubb: "I am not used to be spoken to that way, sir."

Ahab: "Avast!

Stubb: "I will not tamely be called a dog, sir."

Ahab: "Then be called ten times a donkey, and a mule, and an ass, and begone, or I'll clear the world of thee!"


 * Scene Four**

Ahab – Oscar Queequeg – Adam Moby Dick – Olivia Ishmael/ Narrator – Olivia Starbuck – Adam …………………………………..

Ahab: "There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!"

Ahab: "Drive, drive in your nails, ye but strike a thing without a lid; and no coffin and no hearse can be mine:—and hemp only can kill me! Ha! ha!"

Starbuck: "Oh! Ahab, not too late is it to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!"

Ahab: "Oars! oars! Slope downwards to thy depths”

Ahab: Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, thou damned whale! THUS, I give up the spear!"

Narrator: And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight.

Narrator: Then she went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her

Narrator: Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Ishmael: "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee”

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