Excerpts from Moby Dick Author:Herman Melville, Charlton Heston The search for understanding about man in relation to the universe is a pervasive theme in literature; in Moby Dick, it reaches the level of preoccupation. The quest is undertaken against a background of contradictions, for the world is at once good and evil; nature is beneficent yet destructive; man has control over experience yet is controlled... more » by it. Underlying the action and events in Moby Dick is a struggle to reconcile man's position in a paradoxical universe. 2 audio cassettes« less