当我身上只剩下少得可怜的一点点钱, 岸上也没有什么事情值得我留恋的时候, 我决定出去航行, 去见识一下海洋世界。这就是我用来驱除肝火, 调剂血液循环的方法。每当我觉得嘴角变得狰狞, 我的心情像阴雨的十一月天一般潮湿的时候; 每当我发觉自己不由主地在棺材店门前停下步来, 而且每逢人家出丧就尾着他们走去的时候; 尤其是每当我的忧郁症发展到自身力量无法控制, 而需要借助外在道德法律的强力来避免我故意闯到街上, 不可了。这就是我的手枪和子弹的代替品。当年伽图是一边大诵哲学, 一边引剑自刎的; 我却悄悄地上了船。

就是在看到作者的这段心里自述，就是在图书馆随手翻着这本已经泛黄的书时，我的灵魂已经开始与之交汇。有着某些类似难言的心境，带着同样迷恋海洋的心，我循着作者的视野去体验他的海上捕鲸生涯，随着他的思想去贴近真实的自己，开始我的觉醒与顿悟之旅。

下面带大家走进这个残酷甚至血腥的故事：被白鲸噬断大腿的主人公亚哈船长，本着狭隘心理一步步执行着他的复仇计划，开展了与白鲸斗智斗勇、最终同归于尽的惊险历程，他像发狂的野兽，被盲目本能冲昏头脑，让人性中恶的一面冲破理性的大堤，逐渐走向命运的归宿，永久的沉入海底。

然而就是这样一波三折的惊险故事，就是颠簸在这样波涛汹涌的海平面上，我的心灵却越发的宁静和明澈。单说那头绰号“莫比·迪克”的被疯狂追查的白鲸，它作为智慧、美、力量、狡诈、暴虐和毁灭的综合化身，代表了不可理解的大千世界和不可探索的宇宙奥秘，文中如是描述：

“虽然鲸尾力大惊人，但丝毫不影响它柔和典雅的尾姿，其动作的柔和自如犹如是通过一种巨人似的力量驱动而波动起伏。这种美姿进而会产生一种最令人惊骇的美感。真正的力量绝不会破坏优美或和谐，而往往会更赋予它优美与和谐。”反躬我们自身，成熟不是一种刻意的外在行为，而是以丰富的阅历和内涵塑造自我品质，懂得收敛，学会尊重；在成长的路

上变得倔强而坚强，却又绝不能喷吐着耀眼的火焰拒人以千里之外，更不能昂着高傲的头颅藐视一切。白鲸正以其行为告诫我们：真正的优秀是懂得了优美与和谐后的刚柔并济。

在鲸身上，我看到了一种顽强独特的生命力之罕见的品质，坚墙厚壁之罕见的品质，胸怀博大之罕见的品质，这些我们又可曾拥有？你也能置身冰雪之中而仍然浑身温暖？你也能身处北极而不让血液凝住？你也能生活在这世界上而不为这世界所左右？不，好多人已经在这个竟争激烈的社会里慢慢变得世俗与功利，不择手段渴求名利双收，失去自我而变得癫狂，面对如此白鲸，我只感觉到了汗颜和望尘莫及。是的，就是要像它一样，使自己的温度一年四季始终如一；就是要像它一样，风度翩翩，举止文雅。

由此我想到了洪应明的诗句“闲看庭前花开花落，漫随天外云卷云舒”，那是怎样的意境与心境；一个“闲”字，尽是洒脱，一个“漫”字，尽显豁达。一直以来，在这条曲折的人生路上，有两个梦想始终驱动着我前进，那就是寻找属于我的平静的大海和草原，和小说作者麦尔维尔相仿，当开始变得浮躁，当发觉生活得有一点点被动，当在迷乱中亦步亦趋地经营自我，我便会受磁力吸引般走向那片海，看着它的宽广与蔚蓝，聆听自己的心跳与呼吸，慢慢、回归。至于那片尚未涉足的草原，我想留给未来的我，留一份想念与向往；我梦想有一天，能够平躺在那无垠的翠绿色上，放空思想，看那云卷云舒。

喜爱读书，就等于把生活中寂寞无聊的时光换成巨大享受的时刻。“博学之，审问之，慎思之，明辨之，笃行之。”就是在读书思考的过程中，就是在赤裸裸地面对自己的内心的过程中，我感觉自己痛饮了丰富的精神养料，吸收了人间崇高的活力，看到了世界的宁静迷人。

最后我想说，这次活动又一次激发了我的阅读激情，感谢这次活动的策划者，感谢老师们与工作人员，感谢所有参赛者的分享，更感谢你们的倾听，谢谢。

 

第二篇：读迈尔维尔的《白鲸记》有感

Herman Melville: Moby Dick

Moby Dick (1851), is now considered one of the classics of

American literature.one of Herman Melville’s main works. Herman Melville when he was the eighteen-year-old young man,he shipped out to sea,first on a short cargo trip,then,at twenty-one,on a three-year South Sea in venture.From the experiences accumulated on this voyage would come the material for his Moby Dick.

Moby dick was about Captain Ahab hates Moby Dick--“the white

devil”--because he lost a leg to the white whale in a fight. Now Ahab, the captain of a whaling ship,can only think of one thing.He has to find Moby Dick and kill him.

Many of the other sailors on the ship don't know about their captain's plan.Ishmael is a young sailor and this is his first whaling job. He and his new friend,Queequeg,sail with Captain Ahab on this exciting-and dagerous--trip.Also on the ship are Starbuck,Srubb,and other whalers from different countries.He is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis.

A section of "Whaling and Whalecraft" features prose and

graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of contemporary whaling engravings,

as well as, new to this edition, an engraving of Tupai Cupa, the real-life inspiration for the character of Queequeg.

Evoking Melville’s fascination with the fluidity of categories like savagery and civilization, the image of Tupai Cupa fittingly

introduces "Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," a new section that documents the ferocity of religions, political, and sexual hostility toward Melville in reaction to his early books, beginning with Typee in 1846.

The image of Tupai Cupa also evokes Melville’s interest in the mystery of self-identity and the possibility of knowing another person’s "queenly personality" (Chapter 119). That theme (focused on Melville, Ishmael, and Ahab) is pursued in "A Handful of Critical Challenges," from Walter E. Bezanson’s classic centennial study through Harrison

Hayford’s meditation on "Loomings" and recent essays by Camille Paglia and John Wenke.

In "Reviews of Moby-Dick" emphasizes the ongoing religious hostility toward Melville and highlights new discoveries, such as the first-known Scottish review of The Whale.

From Foreword through Selected Bibliography, this

Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition is uniquely valuable as the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for study of Moby-Dick It is not difficult for us to guess that Melville had spent how much energy

to write this work.His spirit is worthy studying.

No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a Mad Captain

Ahab's Melville's monumental Moby-Dick.Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless a searing parable about human lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.It is the greatest sea story ever told.

Far ahead of its own time,Moby-Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries.Today,However,it is indisputably a classic.

As D.H.Lawrence wrote,Moby-Dick"commands a stillness in the soul,an awe??and it is one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world. Moby-Dick is a highly symbolic work, and is interesting in that

it also addresses issues such as natural history. Other themes include obsession, religion, idealism versus pragmatism, revenge, racism, hierarchical relationships, and politics.

All of the members of the Pequod's crew have biblical-sounding, improbable, or descriptive names, and the narrator deliberately avoids specifying the exact time of the events and some other similar details. These together suggest that the narrator—and not just Melville—is deliberately casting his tale in an epic and allegorical mode.

The white whale itself, for example, has been read as

symbolically representative of good and evil, as has Ahab. The white whale

has also been seen as a metaphor for the elements of life that are out of our control, or God.

The Pequod's quest to hunt down MobyDick itself is also widely

viewed as allegorical. To Ahab, killing the whale becomes the ultimate goal in his life, and this observation can also be expanded allegorically so that the whale represents everyone's goals. Furthermore, his vengeance against the whale is analogous to man's struggle against fate. The only escape from Ahab's vision is seen through the Pequod's occasional encounters with other ships, called gams. Readers could consider what exactly Ahab will do if he, in fact, succeeds in his quest: having accomplished his ultimate goal, what else is there left for him to do? Similarly, Melville may be implying that people in general need something to reach for in life, or that such a goal can destroy one if allowed to overtake all other concerns. Some such things are hinted at early on in the book, when the main character, Ishmael, is sharing a cold bed with his newfound friend, Queequeg.

Truely to enjoy bodily warmth,some small part of you must be

cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

Ahab's pipe is widely looked upon as the riddance of happiness

in Ahab's life. By throwing the pipe overboard, Ahab signifies that he no longer can enjoy simple pleasures in life; instead, he dedicates his entire life to the pursuit of his obsession, the killing of the white whale, Moby-Dick.

After reading the work, you can easy to find its sadness.

Oiginally, the seven chracters can have a peaceful life in some corner. But they cost their lives at last, only one person survived. This is whose fault? Ahab? The answer is not.maybe we can blame that society or time, because in that time, they do not know the strenghth of nature quite well.Maybe we can summarize it in the confict between man and nature.I hold if man do not hurt the whale, it may be have not aggressivity. Maybe moby dick want to reflect this conviction,human beings should obey the natural rules.The man and animal rise or fall together.if you intend to change the structure of ecology,then the nature must revenge you.So we said what the most important is the human can not be lost.

Nowadays,Moby Dick has become the first-class novel work in

nineteen century around the world.it has been adapted into movie and plays.I believe more people can find illumination in it,and will not repeat the tragedy.