conscience

What culture has a significant thread in American literature from Moby Dick to The Great Gatsby. The Dutch. Their explorations and their superimplanting their ethics and social consciousness has created The American Psyche.

Going through the volumne of spirited language that is Moby Dick, the only whale that got the mighty whale killer Ahab, a masterpiece of man seeking vengeance on a brute force existing because he has a right to exist. Moby Dick did not seek out Ahab means nothing to the proud Dutchman as conscience means everything in Hawthorne. For Melville human needs far outweigh conscience. For Hawthorne...