{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "slug": "moby-dick",
  "title": "Moby-Dick",
  "author": "Herman Melville",
  "language": "English",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Late Consumptive Usher",
      "aliases": [
        "Usher"
      ],
      "description": "A threadbare former grammar-school usher who supplied the etymology section and devoted himself to dusting old grammars."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sub-Sub-Librarian",
      "aliases": [
        "Sub-Sub"
      ],
      "description": "A poor, painstaking compiler of whale extracts who searched books and street stalls for references to whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ishmael",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The first-person narrator and Pequod sailor, who joins Ahab’s hunt despite fearing it. He survives the shipwreck by floating on Queequeg’s coffin life-buoy and is rescued by the Rachel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cato",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical figure Ishmael cites as an example of someone who chose suicide by falling on his sword."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gabriel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An archangel mentioned in a fanciful passage about the heavens making room for the Sub-Subs."
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An archangel mentioned in a fanciful passage about the heavens making room for the Sub-Subs."
    },
    {
      "name": "Raphael",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An archangel mentioned in a fanciful passage about the heavens making room for the Sub-Subs."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jonah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The biblical prophet whose story appears in whale extracts and Father Mapple’s sermon; Ishmael also discusses his story in relation to whaling and the whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Narcissus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The mythological figure whose story Ishmael uses to reflect on humanity’s attraction to the sea and life’s image."
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Coffin",
      "aliases": [
        "the landlord"
      ],
      "description": "Landlord of the Spouter-Inn in New Bedford; he arranges Ishmael’s lodging and recommends his cousin Hosea Hussey’s inn."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lazarus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A destitute man in Ishmael’s meditation on poverty, stranded outside the wealthy Dives’s door."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dives",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A wealthy figure in Ishmael’s meditation on poverty, contrasted with Lazarus."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nathan Swain",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A whaleman mentioned at the Spouter-Inn as the killer of fifteen whales in one day."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg",
      "aliases": [
        "the harpooneer",
        "Quohog",
        "Hedgehog"
      ],
      "description": "A South Seas harpooneer, prince from Rokovoko, and Ishmael’s close friend and Pequod shipmate. He makes a coffin-canoe that becomes a life-buoy, but he is aboard the sinking Pequod and is presumed dead."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sal",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Peter Coffin’s wife, mentioned in his story about their large bed and children."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sam",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A child of Peter Coffin and Sal, mentioned in the landlord’s story about the family sharing a bed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Little Johnny",
      "aliases": [
        "Johnny"
      ],
      "description": "A child of Peter Coffin and Sal, mentioned in the landlord’s story about the family sharing a bed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bulkington",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A tall, strong sailor from the Grampus, first seen at the Spouter-Inn; he later serves at the Pequod’s helm after a four-year voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ishmael’s stepmother",
      "aliases": [
        "his stepmother"
      ],
      "description": "The conscientious woman who sent Ishmael to bed after childhood mischief and refused his plea for a slippering instead."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ishmael’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "his mother"
      ],
      "description": "Mentioned in Ishmael’s childhood recollection as the person who dragged him from a chimney and sent him to bed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ledyard",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A New England traveller Ishmael cites as an example of someone lacking social assurance despite seeing the world."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mungo Park",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Scottish traveller Ishmael cites as an example of someone lacking social assurance despite seeing the world."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Talbot",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An eighteen-year-old whaleman lost overboard near the Isle of Desolation; his sister erected a chapel tablet in his memory."
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Long",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew, towed out of sight by a whale and commemorated on a chapel tablet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Willis Ellery",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew, towed out of sight by a whale and commemorated on a chapel tablet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nathan Coleman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew, towed out of sight by a whale and commemorated on a chapel tablet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Walter Canny",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew, towed out of sight by a whale and commemorated on a chapel tablet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Seth Macy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew, towed out of sight by a whale and commemorated on a chapel tablet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Samuel Gleig",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A member of the Eliza’s boat crew, towed out of sight by a whale and commemorated on a chapel tablet."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Ezekiel Hardy",
      "aliases": [
        "Ezekiel Hardy"
      ],
      "description": "A whaling captain killed in his boat by a sperm whale off Japan; his widow erected a chapel tablet in his memory."
    },
    {
      "name": "Father Mapple",
      "aliases": [
        "the chaplain"
      ],
      "description": "A former sailor and harpooneer who became a beloved whalemen’s chaplain and preaches on Jonah, repentance, and God’s calling."
    },
    {
      "name": "General Washington",
      "aliases": [
        "George Washington"
      ],
      "description": "A historical figure whose head in popular busts Ishmael says resembles Queequeg’s shaved head."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "the King",
        "the High Chief"
      ],
      "description": "King and High Chief of Rokovoko, and Queequeg’s father. He held a feast after a battle in which enemy dead were cooked and eaten."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg’s uncle",
      "aliases": [
        "the High Priest"
      ],
      "description": "Queequeg’s uncle, who holds the office of High Priest in Rokovoko."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg’s maternal aunts",
      "aliases": [
        "his aunts"
      ],
      "description": "Queequeg’s aunts on his mother’s side, described as wives of unconquerable warriors."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "the princess"
      ],
      "description": "Queequeg’s younger sister, a princess whose wedding feast he recounts; she had just turned ten at the time."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queequeg’s mother",
      "aliases": [
        "his mother"
      ],
      "description": "Mentioned as the parent through whom Queequeg is related to aunts who were warriors’ wives."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Sag Harbor ship’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "the captain"
      ],
      "description": "Captain of the ship that visited Rokovoko and eventually let Queequeg aboard after he risked his life to reach Christian lands."
    },
    {
      "name": "The grand merchant ship’s commander",
      "aliases": [
        "the Captain"
      ],
      "description": "A punctilious sea captain at Queequeg’s sister’s wedding feast who mistakes a ceremonial bowl for a finger bowl."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Moss’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "the Captain"
      ],
      "description": "Gaunt captain of the Nantucket packet schooner Moss; he rebukes Queequeg, then apologizes after Queequeg rescues a passenger."
    },
    {
      "name": "The bumpkin",
      "aliases": [
        "the greenhorn",
        "the poor fellow"
      ],
      "description": "A young passenger on the Moss who mocks Queequeg, is tossed into the air by him, then swept overboard and rescued by him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The infant Indian",
      "aliases": [
        "the poor little Indian"
      ],
      "description": "A child in a traditional story about Nantucket’s settlement, carried off by an eagle; the child’s parents follow in canoes and find the remains."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hosea Hussey",
      "aliases": [
        "Cousin Hosea",
        "Mr. Hussey"
      ],
      "description": "Peter Coffin’s cousin and proprietor of Nantucket’s Try Pots inn, known for chowders; he owns a brindled cow that eats fish remnants."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Hussey",
      "aliases": [
        "Mistress Hussey",
        "the landlady"
      ],
      "description": "Hosea Hussey’s wife, who runs the Try Pots while he is away. She serves chowder and takes Queequeg’s harpoon after recalling a boarder killed by his own."
    },
    {
      "name": "The man in the purple shirt",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man scolded by Mrs. Hussey outside the Try Pots."
    },
    {
      "name": "Young Stiggs",
      "aliases": [
        "Stiggs"
      ],
      "description": "A whaleman who returned from a disastrous voyage and was found dead at the Try Pots, killed by his own harpoon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Yojo",
      "aliases": [
        "Queequeg’s god"
      ],
      "description": "Queequeg’s black wooden god, whom he consults and honors through fasting and ritual. Yojo directs him to leave the choice of ship to Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Peleg",
      "aliases": [
        "Peleg"
      ],
      "description": "Retired whaleman, former Pequod chief mate, and one of its principal owners and agents. He hires Ishmael and Queequeg and describes Ahab as good but moody."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Ahab",
      "aliases": [
        "Ahab",
        "Old Thunder"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s formidable, moody captain, who lost a leg to Moby Dick and pursues the whale for revenge. On the third day of the chase, the whale sinks the Pequod; Ahab is dragged from his boat by the harpoon-line and drowned."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Bildad",
      "aliases": [
        "Bildad"
      ],
      "description": "Retired whaleman, Quaker, and principal Pequod owner. Pious but hard-hearted in business, he pilots the ship out of port and is reluctant to leave Ahab."
    },
    {
      "name": "Deacon Deuteronomy Coleman",
      "aliases": [
        "Deacon Deuteronomy"
      ],
      "description": "A church deacon whose meeting-house is mentioned in a dispute over whether Queequeg belongs to a Christian congregation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nat Swaine",
      "aliases": [
        "young Nat Swaine"
      ],
      "description": "A once-renowned Nantucket and Vineyard boat-header who became too fearful of spiritual consequences to pursue whales boldly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Elijah",
      "aliases": [
        "the stranger",
        "the ragged old sailor"
      ],
      "description": "A shabby, smallpox-scarred sailor who warns Ishmael and Queequeg about the Pequod and hints at strange events involving Ahab."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Bildad’s sister",
      "aliases": [
        "Charity",
        "Aunt Charity"
      ],
      "description": "A kindhearted, indefatigable Quakeress who helps provision the Pequod and owns a small share in it. She is Stubb’s sister-in-law."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stubb",
      "aliases": [
        "the second mate"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s good-humored, easygoing second mate from Cape Cod, and Captain Bildad’s brother-in-law. Moby Dick destroys his boat twice during the final chase, but Stubb is rescued; he dies when the Pequod sinks."
    },
    {
      "name": "The chamber-maid",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Try Pots servant who tells Ishmael that Queequeg’s room has remained locked and silent."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mrs. Hussey’s little black boy",
      "aliases": [
        "the little black boy"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed child whom Mrs. Hussey is scolding when Ishmael reports that Queequeg may be ill."
    },
    {
      "name": "Snarles the Painter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Nantucket painter whom Mrs. Hussey sends for to make a warning sign for the Try Pots."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old rigger",
      "aliases": [
        "the sleeper"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, exhausted Pequod rigger whom Ishmael and Queequeg find asleep in the forecastle before sailing."
    },
    {
      "name": "Starbuck",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Starbuck",
        "the chief mate"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s conscientious chief mate, a Nantucketer and Quaker by descent, with a wife and child at Cape Cod. He challenges Ahab’s hunt and pleads with him to stop, but remains aboard and drowns when the ship sinks."
    },
    {
      "name": "Starbuck’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "Starbuck’s young Cape wife"
      ],
      "description": "Starbuck’s wife, who lives at Cape Cod and is remembered by him during the voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Starbuck’s child",
      "aliases": [
        "Starbuck’s young child"
      ],
      "description": "Starbuck’s child at Cape Cod, remembered by him during the voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Starbuck’s father",
      "aliases": [
        "his father"
      ],
      "description": "Mentioned as a man whose fate at sea weighs on Starbuck; what happened to him is unspecified."
    },
    {
      "name": "Starbuck’s brother",
      "aliases": [
        "his brother"
      ],
      "description": "Starbuck’s brother, whose torn limbs Starbuck wonders about after his disappearance at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "The steward",
      "aliases": [
        "Dough-Boy"
      ],
      "description": "The Pequod’s nervous, pale-faced steward, serving the cabin and harpooneers. He is the son of a bankrupt baker and a hospital nurse."
    },
    {
      "name": "The third mate",
      "aliases": [
        "King-Post",
        "Flask",
        "Mr. Flask"
      ],
      "description": "Flask, the Pequod’s short, stout third mate from Vineyard, is pugnacious and dismissive of whales’ danger and majesty. He is swept from his boat in the final chase and drowns when the Pequod sinks."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tashtego",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Gay-Head Indian harpooneer and Stubb’s boat-steerer, descended from Indigenous Martha’s Vineyard hunters. While nailing the flag to the Pequod’s sinking mast, he goes down with the ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daggoo",
      "aliases": [
        "Ahasuerus Daggoo"
      ],
      "description": "A gigantic African harpooneer who joined a whaler as a youth. He is Flask’s boat-steerer and drowns with the Pequod’s crew."
    },
    {
      "name": "Black Little Pip",
      "aliases": [
        "Little Pip",
        "Pip",
        "Pippin"
      ],
      "description": "A Black boy from Alabama serving aboard the Pequod. After being left alone at sea and rescued, he is said to have become mentally altered; his strange perceptions unsettle his shipmates."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old Gay-Head Indian",
      "aliases": [
        "Tashtego’s senior"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed older Indigenous crewman who says Ahab acquired his lightning-like brand in an elemental struggle at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "The grey Manxman",
      "aliases": [
        "the old Manxman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, sepulchral sailor on his first voyage from Nantucket. He says Ahab bears a birthmark from crown to sole and is credited with uncanny discernment."
    },
    {
      "name": "The silent steersman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod helmsman who watches the cabin-scuttle during night watches as Ahab comes on deck."
    },
    {
      "name": "The badger-haired old merman",
      "aliases": [
        "Mr. Humpback",
        "the old fellow"
      ],
      "description": "A humpbacked merman in Stubb’s dream who says Ahab’s kick is an honor and warns against kicking back."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Scoresby",
      "aliases": [
        "Scoresby"
      ],
      "description": "A professional harpooneer and whaleman cited as an authority on whales, especially the Greenland or right whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Surgeon Beale",
      "aliases": [
        "Beale"
      ],
      "description": "A surgeon on English South-Sea whale-ships whose book is cited as a useful account of the living sperm whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bennett",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A surgeon on English South-Sea whale-ships whose book is cited alongside Beale’s."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain James Cook",
      "aliases": [
        "Cook"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer whom Ishmael compares with Nantucket whaling captains, arguing whalemen faced dangers beyond those Cook would risk."
    },
    {
      "name": "George Vancouver",
      "aliases": [
        "Vancouver"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer whose published adventures Ishmael contrasts with Nantucket whalemen’s unrecorded experiences."
    },
    {
      "name": "Adam Johann von Krusenstern",
      "aliases": [
        "Krusenstern"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer whom Ishmael says Nantucket whaling captains equaled or surpassed in courage and experience."
    },
    {
      "name": "John De Witt",
      "aliases": [
        "De Witt"
      ],
      "description": "A Dutch statesman whose era is mentioned in connection with admirals of Dutch whaling fleets."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis XVI",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The French king who, Ishmael says, funded whaling ships from Dunkirk and invited Nantucket families there."
    },
    {
      "name": "Edmund Burke",
      "aliases": [
        "Burke"
      ],
      "description": "A statesman whom Ishmael cites as a public eulogist of whaling in Parliament."
    },
    {
      "name": "Benjamin Franklin",
      "aliases": [
        "Franklin"
      ],
      "description": "A historical figure Ishmael connects to Nantucket whalemen through his grandmother Mary Folger."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mary Morrel",
      "aliases": [
        "Mary Folger"
      ],
      "description": "Benjamin Franklin’s grandmother, an early Nantucket settler and ancestress of Folgers and harpooneers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alfred the Great",
      "aliases": [
        "Alfred"
      ],
      "description": "The king Ishmael credits with recording a whaling voyage narrative by the Norwegian whale-hunter Other."
    },
    {
      "name": "Other",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Norwegian whale-hunter whose whaling voyage account was recorded by Alfred the Great."
    },
    {
      "name": "Aristotle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient Greek philosopher named among writers who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pliny",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient Roman writer named among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Aldrovandi",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Thomas Browne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer named among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gesner",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ray",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Carl Linnaeus",
      "aliases": [
        "Linnæus"
      ],
      "description": "A naturalist whose classification and arguments about whales are discussed by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rondeletius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Willoughby",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Green",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer named among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Artedi",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sibbald",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brisson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Marten",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer named among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lacépède",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bonneterre",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Desmarest",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Baron Cuvier",
      "aliases": [
        "Georges Cuvier",
        "Cuvier"
      ],
      "description": "A zoologist and anatomist whose writings on whales are cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Frederick Cuvier",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A zoologist and anatomist named among writers on whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Hunter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An anatomist whose writings on whales are cited by Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Richard Owen",
      "aliases": [
        "Owen"
      ],
      "description": "A naturalist named among whale writers; Ishmael says only those listed after Owen had seen living whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "J. Ross Browne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer named among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Olmstead",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer named among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Reverend T. Cheever",
      "aliases": [
        "Rev. T. Cheever"
      ],
      "description": "A clergyman named among those who wrote about whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miriam Coffin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person identified by a book title on whales, named among writers on the subject."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Dutch discoverer of Australia",
      "aliases": [
        "the Dutchman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Dutchman credited with the first, mistaken discovery of Australia."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Roman general",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Roman commander whose triumphal procession displayed whale bones from the Syrian coast."
    },
    {
      "name": "The great captain of antiquity",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed ancient commander whom Ishmael contrasts with a whaleman who captured hundreds of whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charley Coffin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person Ishmael cites for the claim that the narwhal uses its tusk to pierce ice; the claim is left uncertain."
    },
    {
      "name": "Black Letter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An old author cited for a story that Sir Martin Frobisher gave a narwhal tusk to Queen Elizabeth."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Martin Frobisher",
      "aliases": [
        "Frobisher"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer said by Black Letter to have presented Queen Elizabeth with a narwhal tusk."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen Elizabeth",
      "aliases": [
        "Queen Bess",
        "her highness"
      ],
      "description": "The queen who, according to Black Letter, received a narwhal tusk from Sir Martin Frobisher."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Earl of Leicester",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Irish author says he gave Queen Elizabeth a horn from a land animal of the unicorn kind."
    },
    {
      "name": "Napoleon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A historical figure whose statue atop the Vendôme Column is Ishmael’s example of a lifeless masthead lookout."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Philippe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler mentioned as one of the men who might rule beneath Napoleon’s statue."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis Blanc",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A political figure mentioned as one of the men who might rule beneath Napoleon’s statue."
    },
    {
      "name": "Admiral Nelson",
      "aliases": [
        "Nelson"
      ],
      "description": "A British admiral whose statue stands atop a column in Trafalgar Square."
    },
    {
      "name": "Obed Macy",
      "aliases": [
        "Obed"
      ],
      "description": "Nantucket’s historian, cited for the island’s early custom of erecting coastal whale-lookout spars."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saint Stylites",
      "aliases": [
        "Saint Simeon Stylites"
      ],
      "description": "An ancient Christian hermit who lived atop a desert pillar and died at his post; Ishmael compares him to a masthead lookout."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Sleet",
      "aliases": [
        "Sleet"
      ],
      "description": "A Greenland whaling captain who describes a protective crow’s-nest he invented and named after himself."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cranmer",
      "aliases": [
        "Thomas Cranmer"
      ],
      "description": "A figure whose ashes Ishmael invokes in a comparison about an absent-minded lookout’s spirit becoming part of every shore."
    },
    {
      "name": "The first Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "1st Nantucket Sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who leads a comic whaling song during the midnight watch."
    },
    {
      "name": "The second Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "2nd Nantucket Sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who asks Pip to strike the bell and rouses the watch."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Dutch sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who jokes about the officers sleeping through the crew’s singing."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who urges Pip and others to dance during the midnight watch."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Iceland sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who says he is used to ice floors and declines to dance on deck."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Maltese sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who calls for dancing partners and makes bawdy remarks."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Sicilian sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who joins bawdy talk, exchanges insults with Tashtego, and warns Ahab when the hawk steals his hat."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Long-Island sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who encourages the others to dance."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Azore sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who brings Pip a tambourine and dances."
    },
    {
      "name": "The China sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who tells Pip to beat his teeth like a rattle."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Lascar sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who interprets the gathering storm through Hindu religious imagery."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Tahitan sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who remembers Tahiti’s dancing and helps Ahab heave the log."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Portuguese sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who calls attention to the rising wind and prepares to reef."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Danish sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who praises the mate’s handling of the ship in a storm."
    },
    {
      "name": "The third Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "3d Nantucket Sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who asks Tashtego for tobacco during the watch."
    },
    {
      "name": "The fourth Nantucket sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "4th Nantucket Sailor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who says Ahab ordered the mate to attack squalls with the ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "The English sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who praises Ahab and supports the hunt for Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Spanish sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor whose racist taunt provokes a fight with Daggoo during a storm."
    },
    {
      "name": "The St. Jago’s sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who comments on the quarrel between Daggoo and the Spanish sailor."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Belfast sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who cheers on the fight between Daggoo and the Spanish sailor."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old Manx sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "Old Manx Sailor",
        "the old Manxman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who speaks darkly about death and fate, interprets signs, warns that the log-line is worn, and hears drowned men in the crew’s cries."
    },
    {
      "name": "Moby Dick",
      "aliases": [
        "the White Whale",
        "the white whale"
      ],
      "description": "A notorious white sperm whale that took Ahab’s leg and is the target of his revenge. He kills Ahab and sinks the Pequod, but his own fate is not stated."
    },
    {
      "name": "Olassen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A book naturalist cited with Povelson for claims that sperm whales are ferocious and thirst for human blood."
    },
    {
      "name": "Povelson",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A book naturalist cited with Olassen for claims that sperm whales are ferocious and thirst for human blood."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rinaldo Rinaldini",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure used as a comparison for the dangerous prestige surrounding famous whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Timor Tom",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famous whale scarred like an iceberg, long seen in the straits of Timor and known for his spout off Ombay."
    },
    {
      "name": "New Zealand Jack",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famous whale feared by cruisers near New Zealand."
    },
    {
      "name": "Morquan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famous whale known as the King of Japan, whose spout was said to resemble a white cross in the sky."
    },
    {
      "name": "Don Miguel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Chilean whale marked with hieroglyphic-like patterns; after causing havoc among whaling boats, he was hunted and killed."
    },
    {
      "name": "New Zealand Tom",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A famous whale that caused havoc among whaling boats before being hunted and killed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Butler",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A captain of old who set out through the Narragansett Woods intending to capture Annawon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Annawon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A notorious murderous warrior, described as the headmost warrior of Indigenous King Philip, whom Captain Butler sought to capture."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Pollard",
      "aliases": [
        "Pollard"
      ],
      "description": "Captain of the Nantucket ship Essex when a sperm whale sank it in 1820. He later lost another ship, gave up the sea, and lived in Nantucket."
    },
    {
      "name": "Owen Chace",
      "aliases": [
        "Chace"
      ],
      "description": "Chief mate of the Essex during its destruction by a whale and author of an account; Ishmael has met and spoken with him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Owen Chace’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "Chace’s son"
      ],
      "description": "The son of Owen Chace, whom Ishmael says he has spoken with."
    },
    {
      "name": "Commodore J——",
      "aliases": [
        "the Commodore"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed American naval commodore who doubted whales’ strength until a sperm whale badly struck his sloop-of-war."
    },
    {
      "name": "Saul of Tarsus",
      "aliases": [
        "Saul"
      ],
      "description": "The biblical figure whose conversion Ishmael compares to the Commodore’s frightening encounter with a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Langsdorff",
      "aliases": [
        "Langsdorff"
      ],
      "description": "A captain whose account describes a whale lifting a ship without damaging it; he served on Krusenstern’s Discovery Expedition."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain D’Wolf",
      "aliases": [
        "D’Wolf"
      ],
      "description": "A New England captain whose ship was struck by a whale in Langsdorff’s account; Ishmael’s uncle, he later confirmed it to him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lionel Wafer",
      "aliases": [
        "Wafer"
      ],
      "description": "A voyager and associate of Dampier, cited for an account of a ship jolted at sea, which Ishmael suspects a whale struck."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Dampier",
      "aliases": [
        "Dampier"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer whose old associate Lionel Wafer recounts a ship being struck at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Davis",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The captain aboard Lionel Wafer’s ship, thrown from his cabin by a violent shock at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Procopius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A sixth-century Christian magistrate and historian who recorded a sea monster destroying ships in the Propontis for over fifty years."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justinian",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Roman emperor during Procopius’s lifetime."
    },
    {
      "name": "Belisarius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A general during the reign of Justinian."
    },
    {
      "name": "Commodore Davis",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A British naval commodore said to have found a sperm whale skeleton on the Barbary coast."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lieutenant Maury",
      "aliases": [
        "Maury"
      ],
      "description": "An officer of the National Observatory whose 1851 circular reports a chart of whale sightings and whaling days by ocean district."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cabaco",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Cholo sailor in the Pequod’s middle watch who passes water buckets with Archy and dismisses his report of noises below."
    },
    {
      "name": "Archy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Pequod sailor stationed near the after-hatches during the middle watch; he suspects someone unseen is in the after-hold."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rokovoko’s old Quakeress",
      "aliases": [
        "the old Quakeress"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman whose knitting needles Archy jokingly claims to have heard from far out at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fedallah",
      "aliases": [
        "the white-turbaned old man",
        "the old Oriental"
      ],
      "description": "A mysterious Parsee who joins Ahab’s private boat crew and seems tied to Ahab’s fortunes. On the third day he is found dead, lashed to Moby Dick’s back by the tangled lines."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fedallah’s four companions",
      "aliases": [
        "the yellow boys",
        "the subordinate phantoms",
        "Ahab’s crew"
      ],
      "description": "Four unnamed, yellow-complexioned men from the Manila region who secretly join Ahab’s private boat crew with Fedallah."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pedro",
      "aliases": [
        "Don Pedro"
      ],
      "description": "A young Spanish gentleman in Ishmael’s audience at Lima’s Golden Inn who interjects questions during the Town-Ho story."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sebastian",
      "aliases": [
        "Don Sebastian"
      ],
      "description": "A young Spanish gentleman in Ishmael’s audience at the Golden Inn who asks about Steelkilt and Buffalo."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Town-Ho’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "the captain"
      ],
      "description": "Captain of the Nantucket whaler Town-Ho, which springs a leak in the Pacific; he is unaware of the secret conflict between Radney and Steelkilt."
    },
    {
      "name": "Radney",
      "aliases": [
        "the mate",
        "Mr. Radney",
        "old Rad"
      ],
      "description": "The Town-Ho’s Vineyarder chief mate and part owner, whose domineering treatment of Steelkilt provokes conflict. Moby Dick kills him during a whale chase."
    },
    {
      "name": "Steelkilt",
      "aliases": [
        "the Lakeman"
      ],
      "description": "A tall, proud Lake Erie sailor from Buffalo who leads a Town-Ho pump gang. After resisting Radney’s abuse, he survives imprisonment and mutiny, then exacts revenge when Moby Dick kills Radney."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Town-Ho’s three confederate white seamen",
      "aliases": [
        "the three confederate white seamen"
      ],
      "description": "Three unnamed white Town-Ho sailors who know the secret story; one tells Tashtego, who reveals it while asleep."
    },
    {
      "name": "The first Canaller",
      "aliases": [
        "one of Steelkilt’s two Canaller comrades"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Erie Canal boatman and Town-Ho sailor who joins Steelkilt’s resistance and agrees to help him break out of the forecastle."
    },
    {
      "name": "The second Canaller",
      "aliases": [
        "one of Steelkilt’s two Canaller comrades"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Erie Canal boatman and Town-Ho sailor who joins Steelkilt’s resistance and agrees to help him break out of the forecastle."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Limean gentleman",
      "aliases": [
        "another of the company"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed member of Ishmael’s Lima audience who thanks the sailor for sparing present-day Lima in his comparison, then jokes about its reputation for corruption."
    },
    {
      "name": "The stupid Teneriffe man",
      "aliases": [
        "the Teneriffe man"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Town-Ho sailor who involuntarily calls out Moby Dick’s appearance, breaking the crew’s agreement not to signal whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Radney’s widow",
      "aliases": [
        "the widow of Radney"
      ],
      "description": "Radney’s unnamed widow, who lives on Nantucket and still dreams of the white whale that killed him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The priest",
      "aliases": [
        "the venerable priest"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Lima priest brought by Don Sebastian with a copy of the Holy Evangelists so Ishmael can swear to his story."
    },
    {
      "name": "The tub oarsman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed member of Stubb’s whaleboat crew who sits by the tub and wets the running line with seawater."
    },
    {
      "name": "The bowsman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed whaleboat crewman who rows at the bow and receives Stubb’s commands during a whale chase."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Fleece",
      "aliases": [
        "Fleece",
        "the cook",
        "the old black"
      ],
      "description": "An elderly Black cook aboard the Pequod, nearly a hundred years old by his account and born on a ferry crossing the Roanoke. Stubb makes him preach to the sharks and teases him while eating whale steak."
    },
    {
      "name": "The attending harpooneer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod harpooneer who uses a boarding-sword to cut and manage the whale blubber during the flensing."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Jeroboam’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Mayhew",
        "Mayhew"
      ],
      "description": "Captain of the Nantucket whaler Jeroboam, who keeps his boat at a distance from the Pequod because an epidemic is aboard. He recounts the loss of his chief mate, Harry Macey, to Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gabriel of the Jeroboam",
      "aliases": [
        "Gabriel",
        "the archangel"
      ],
      "description": "A delusional Jeroboam sailor formerly among the Neskyeuna Shakers who claims to be the archangel Gabriel and exerts fanatical influence over the crew. He calls Moby Dick a Shaker god and his warnings gain power after the whale kills Macey."
    },
    {
      "name": "Macey",
      "aliases": [
        "Harry Macey",
        "Mr. Harry Macey",
        "the chief mate",
        "the mate"
      ],
      "description": "Chief mate of the Jeroboam and husband of the letter-writer whose message Ahab tries to deliver. Moby Dick strikes him into the sea during an attack, and he drowns."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Neskyeuna Shakers’ prophet",
      "aliases": [
        "the prophet"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed prophet among the Neskyeuna Shakers whose role Gabriel once held before leaving for Nantucket."
    },
    {
      "name": "St. Paul",
      "aliases": [
        "Paul"
      ],
      "description": "The biblical apostle whom Ahab invokes while wishing for a favorable breeze."
    },
    {
      "name": "The biblical Elijah",
      "aliases": [
        "Elijah"
      ],
      "description": "The prophet invoked in Stubb’s joke about a coach and four carrying Fleece to heaven."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Jeroboam’s letter-writer",
      "aliases": [
        "Macey’s wife"
      ],
      "description": "Harry Macey’s unnamed wife, whose damp, moldy letter to him is carried by the Pequod and rejected by Gabriel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Derick De Deer",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Derick De Deer",
        "the Yarman",
        "the German"
      ],
      "description": "Master of the Bremen whaler Jungfrau. He eagerly races the Pequod’s boats to a wounded whale, but his boat is spilled when the harpooneers strike."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Jungfrau’s harpooneer",
      "aliases": [
        "the German harpooneer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed harpooneer aboard the Jungfrau who stands to dart at the wounded whale before Queequeg, Tashtego, and Daggoo strike first."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Jungfrau’s midship oarsman",
      "aliases": [
        "the clumsy lubber"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed oarsman in Derick De Deer’s boat whose oar blade catches a crab, nearly capsizing the boat and costing it the lead."
    },
    {
      "name": "The wounded old sperm whale",
      "aliases": [
        "the old whale",
        "the whale"
      ],
      "description": "An aged, blind sperm whale with one fin missing and an old stone lance and corroded harpoon embedded in its flesh. The Pequod’s boats kill it after a chase, and its sinking carcass nearly capsizes the ship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Perseus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A son of Jupiter and legendary first whaleman in Ishmael’s account. He harpoons the sea monster carrying off Andromeda, rescues her, and marries her."
    },
    {
      "name": "Andromeda",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A king’s daughter whom Perseus rescues from a sea monster and marries."
    },
    {
      "name": "The monster slain by Perseus",
      "aliases": [
        "Leviathan"
      ],
      "description": "The legendary sea monster said to have carried off Andromeda; Ishmael identifies it as a whale harpooned by Perseus."
    },
    {
      "name": "St. George",
      "aliases": [
        "Saint George"
      ],
      "description": "The saint and legendary dragon-slayer whom Ishmael recasts as a whaleman who battled a whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dagon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Philistine idol whose horse’s head and hands fell away before the Ark of Israel, leaving a fish-like stump."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hercules",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Greek demigod whom Ishmael claims as an involuntary whaleman because a whale swallowed and later expelled him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vishnoo",
      "aliases": [
        "Vishnu"
      ],
      "description": "A Hindu god who, in the Shaster story Ishmael recounts, incarnates as a whale and retrieves the Vedas from the depths."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brahma",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Hindu God of Gods who, in the Shaster story Ishmael recounts, gives birth to Vishnoo to oversee the world’s recreation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old Sag-Harbor whaleman",
      "aliases": [
        "Sag-Harbor"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed whaleman who doubts the historical story of Jonah and the whale, citing anatomical and geographical objections."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bishop Jebb",
      "aliases": [
        "the Bishop"
      ],
      "description": "A bishop whose proposed explanation is that Jonah was lodged in a whale’s mouth rather than its belly."
    },
    {
      "name": "The German exegetist",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed German commentator who proposes that Jonah took refuge in the floating body of a dead whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "The French soldiers",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed soldiers in the Russian campaign, mentioned as having turned dead horses into shelters."
    },
    {
      "name": "The continental commentators",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed commentators who suggest that Jonah escaped to a nearby ship with a whale figurehead."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Portuguese Catholic priest",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed priest who proposed that Jonah travelled to Nineveh via the Cape of Good Hope, treating the route as a magnification of the miracle."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bartholomew Diaz",
      "aliases": [
        "Diaz"
      ],
      "description": "The reputed discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, whose historical credit Ishmael says would be displaced by a theory about Jonah’s route."
    },
    {
      "name": "The English traveller",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed traveller cited in Harris’s Voyages for reporting a Turkish mosque in honor of Jonah."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Turks",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A people mentioned as devout believers in the historical story of Jonah; no individual is identified."
    },
    {
      "name": "Plato",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A philosopher whom Ishmael names among profound beings whose deep thoughts supposedly produce a visible vapor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pyrrho",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A philosopher whom Ishmael names among profound beings whose deep thoughts supposedly produce a visible vapor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jupiter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A god named among profound beings in Ishmael’s fanciful analogy about thought producing vapor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dante",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A poet whom Ishmael names among profound beings whose deep thoughts supposedly produce a visible vapor."
    },
    {
      "name": "Eckerman",
      "aliases": [
        "Johann Peter Eckermann"
      ],
      "description": "A devoted admirer who, Ishmael says, lifted the linen sheet from Goethe’s corpse and was struck by his massive chest."
    },
    {
      "name": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
      "aliases": [
        "Goethe"
      ],
      "description": "A poet and thinker whose body Ishmael describes through Eckerman’s account as massively built."
    },
    {
      "name": "Michelangelo",
      "aliases": [
        "Angelo"
      ],
      "description": "An artist whom Ishmael cites for the robust human form he gives God the Father."
    },
    {
      "name": "Darmonodes’ elephant",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An elephant in a story Ishmael recounts, said to frequent a flower market, offer nosegays to young women, and caress them with its trunk."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Juba",
      "aliases": [
        "Juba"
      ],
      "description": "An ancient king whom Ishmael cites for the claim that military elephants greeted morning with uplifted trunks."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ptolemy Philopater",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient ruler whom Ishmael cites as having testified about the African elephant."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Malayan pirates",
      "aliases": [
        "the Malays",
        "pirates"
      ],
      "description": "A pursuing band of Malay corsairs whose proas chase the Pequod through the Straits of Sunda."
    },
    {
      "name": "The injured whale in the herd",
      "aliases": [
        "the wounded whale"
      ],
      "description": "A sperm whale whose tail tendon is cut and whose harpoon-line becomes entangled with a cutting-spade, causing it to lash and wound other whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Porus",
      "aliases": [
        "Porus"
      ],
      "description": "An Indian king whose elephants, in battle with Alexander, are compared to the panicked whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "Alexander",
      "aliases": [
        "Alexander the Great"
      ],
      "description": "The conqueror whose Indian battle against King Porus is invoked in a comparison with the frightened whale herd."
    },
    {
      "name": "Arnold",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A mounted desperado at the Battle of Saratoga, used as a comparison for the wounded whale’s frantic charge."
    },
    {
      "name": "Daniel Boone",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A frontiersman invoked as a comparison for an aged solitary sperm whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vidocq",
      "aliases": [
        "Eugène François Vidocq"
      ],
      "description": "A Frenchman whose memoirs are mentioned in a speculation about the origin of the term “schoolmaster” for a harem’s bull whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Erskine",
      "aliases": [
        "Erskine"
      ],
      "description": "Counsel for the defendants in a whale-property case; he argues that the whale and a woman in an earlier marital dispute illustrate the same ownership principles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lord Ellenborough",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The judge in a case over an abandoned whaleboat, whale, harpoons, and line. He awards the boat to its original crew but the whale and attached gear to the later captors."
    },
    {
      "name": "The gentleman in the crim. con. case",
      "aliases": [
        "the husband"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed gentleman who abandoned his wife at sea after struggling with her conduct, then sued to recover her; Erskine uses his case as an analogy about ownership."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lady in the crim. con. case",
      "aliases": [
        "the wife"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman abandoned by her husband and later re-harpooned by another gentleman; Erskine’s argument treats her as analogous to a loose-fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "The subsequent gentleman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed man who re-harpoons the abandoned wife in Erskine’s illustrative legal case."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mordecai",
      "aliases": [
        "the broker"
      ],
      "description": "A broker whom Ishmael invokes as an example of someone extracting a ruinous discount from a bankrupt borrower."
    },
    {
      "name": "Woebegone",
      "aliases": [
        "the bankrupt"
      ],
      "description": "A bankrupt whose family faces starvation; Ishmael cites the ruinous loan discount Mordecai demands from him."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Archbishop of Savesoul",
      "aliases": [
        "Savesoul"
      ],
      "description": "A fictional archbishop whose large income, taken from poor laborers, is presented by Ishmael as a Fast-Fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Dunder",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A fictional duke whose hereditary towns and hamlets are cited by Ishmael as Fast-Fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Bull",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A personification of England, described as a harpooneer who treats Ireland as a Fast-Fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brother Jonathan",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A personification of the United States, described as an apostolic lancer who treats Texas as a Fast-Fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "Columbus",
      "aliases": [
        "Christopher Columbus"
      ],
      "description": "The explorer who, in Ishmael’s analogy, marked America as a loose-fish for the Spanish monarchs in 1492."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Czar",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Russian ruler invoked in Ishmael’s question about Poland as a loose-fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Turk",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler invoked in Ishmael’s question about Greece as a loose-fish."
    },
    {
      "name": "The King",
      "aliases": [
        "the Sovereign"
      ],
      "description": "The English monarch who, under law, receives the head of whales caught on the coast."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Queen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The English queen who, under law, receives the tail of whales caught on the coast."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Lord Warden",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The crown-appointed official overseeing the Cinque Ports, whose delegated claim to royal emoluments is used to seize a whale caught by local mariners."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Duke of Wellington",
      "aliases": [
        "the Duke",
        "his Grace"
      ],
      "description": "The Duke who receives the proceeds from a whale seized under the Lord Warden’s claim. He rebuffs a clergyman who asks him to consider the mariners’ loss."
    },
    {
      "name": "The honest mariner who speaks",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the mariners"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed member of the Cinque Ports whaling crew who questions the official seizing their whale and says he hoped to help his bed-ridden mother with his share."
    },
    {
      "name": "The honest clergyman",
      "aliases": [
        "the reverend gentleman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed clergyman who writes to the Duke of Wellington asking him to reconsider the seizure of the mariners’ whale."
    },
    {
      "name": "Plowdon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A legal writer cited for the claim that a whale belongs to the King and Queen because of its superior excellence."
    },
    {
      "name": "William Prynne",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An old King’s Bench author whose explanation for the Queen’s share of a royal whale is that its tail supplies whalebone for her wardrobe."
    },
    {
      "name": "Queen Maachah",
      "aliases": [
        "Maachah"
      ],
      "description": "A biblical queen whose idol was kept in secret groves and later destroyed by her son, King Asa."
    },
    {
      "name": "King Asa",
      "aliases": [
        "Asa"
      ],
      "description": "The biblical king who deposed his mother, Queen Maachah, and destroyed her idol."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Nantucket-born Captain Coffin",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Coffin"
      ],
      "description": "A Nantucket-born captain examined before the English House of Commons in 1791 about ambergris."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fogo Von Slack",
      "aliases": [
        "the learned Fogo Von Slack"
      ],
      "description": "The purported author of a great work on smells, cited as the source for the name Smeerenberg."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Bouton de Rose’s chief mate",
      "aliases": [
        "the Guernsey-man",
        "the Guernseyman",
        "the interpreter"
      ],
      "description": "A Guernsey sailor serving as chief mate aboard the French whaler Bouton de Rose. He and Stubb conspire to mislead their captain into cutting loose two low-value whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Bouton de Rose’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "the Captain"
      ],
      "description": "A small, dark, delicate-looking first-voyage captain of the French whaler Bouton de Rose, formerly a Cologne manufacturer. He is persuaded by Stubb’s ruse to release two whales."
    },
    {
      "name": "The tormented surgeon",
      "aliases": [
        "the surgeon"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed surgeon aboard the Bouton de Rose who protests the work on the foul-smelling whales and retreats to the captain’s cabin."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pippin",
      "aliases": [
        "Pip",
        "Black Little Pip",
        "Little Pip"
      ],
      "description": "A Pequod ship-keeper from Tolland County, Connecticut, originally known for his bright, cheerful nature. After being abandoned at sea and rescued, he is said to have become mentally altered and forms a strong attachment with Ahab."
    },
    {
      "name": "Stubb’s after-oarsman",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed member of Stubb’s boat crew who sprains his hand while working the ambergris whale, leading Pip to take his place temporarily."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pythagoras",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient Greek philosopher whom Ishmael imagines having sailed with him along the Peruvian coast, as a green sailor whom he taught to splice a rope."
    },
    {
      "name": "The mincer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod worker who wears a protective cassock made from the black skin of a sperm whale’s penis and minces blubber for the try-pots."
    },
    {
      "name": "The old witch in Copenhagen",
      "aliases": [
        "the old witch"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed woman who, according to the old Manx sailor, taught him the signs and their marks two score years earlier."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Samuel Enderby’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Boomer",
        "the one-armed commander",
        "the English Captain"
      ],
      "description": "A burly, good-natured English whaling captain whose arm was lost in an encounter with Moby Dick. He refuses to hunt the whale again."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Bunger",
      "aliases": [
        "Bunger",
        "Jack Bunger",
        "the whale-surgeon",
        "the ship’s surgeon"
      ],
      "description": "The Samuel Enderby’s surgeon and a former clergyman who claims to be a strict teetotaler, though Captain Boomer mocks this. He treated Boomer after Moby Dick tore his arm."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Mounttop",
      "aliases": [
        "Mounttop"
      ],
      "description": "The Samuel Enderby’s first mate, whose boat Captain Boomer joined during the encounter with Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Pequod’s carpenter",
      "aliases": [
        "the carpenter",
        "manmaker"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, unusually versatile and impassive ship’s carpenter, about sixty years old. He makes Queequeg’s coffin into a life-buoy and fashions Ahab’s replacement legs."
    },
    {
      "name": "The blacksmith",
      "aliases": [
        "Smut",
        "Prometheus"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod blacksmith ordered to forge the fittings for Ahab’s replacement leg; Ahab jokingly calls him Prometheus."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tranquo",
      "aliases": [
        "King Tranquo"
      ],
      "description": "The late king of Tranque, an Arsacidean ruler and Ishmael’s royal friend. He gathered curiosities at his villa, including a stranded sperm whale skeleton revered by local priests."
    },
    {
      "name": "The priests of Tranque",
      "aliases": [
        "the priests"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed priests who tend the whale skeleton treated as sacred in King Tranquo’s temple and argue over its measurements."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sir Clifford Constable",
      "aliases": [
        "Sir Clifford"
      ],
      "description": "An English landowner who possesses an articulated sperm whale skeleton at Burton Constable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Judge Creagh",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Alabama judge whose plantation yielded the fossil skeleton of an extinct whale later named Zeuglodon."
    },
    {
      "name": "John Leo",
      "aliases": [
        "the venerable John Leo",
        "the old Barbary traveller"
      ],
      "description": "A Barbary traveller whose account describes an African temple built with whale bones and a rib associated with the story of Jonah."
    },
    {
      "name": "Samuel Enderby",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A London merchant, now deceased, after whom the Samuel Enderby whaler is named. He was the founder of the prominent Enderby whaling house."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dr. Snodhead",
      "aliases": [
        "Snodhead"
      ],
      "description": "A learned professor of Low Dutch and High German who translates a Dutch book about commerce and whaling for Ishmael."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fitz Swackhammer",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The purported author of an old Dutch volume on commerce and whaling, cited by Ishmael through Dr. Snodhead’s translation."
    },
    {
      "name": "The departed prophet and seer of Queequeg’s island",
      "aliases": [
        "the prophet and seer"
      ],
      "description": "A deceased prophet and seer of Queequeg’s island who tattooed a complete theory of the heavens and earth, and a mystical treatise on attaining truth, onto Queequeg’s body."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Bachelor’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "the gay Bachelor’s commander"
      ],
      "description": "The cheerful captain of the Nantucket whaler Bachelor, which has filled its holds with oil and is sailing home. He invites Ahab aboard and says he does not believe in Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Long Island sailor",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who calls Queequeg’s coffin proof that he will die; later he is among the ship’s crew witnessing events."
    },
    {
      "name": "Perth",
      "aliases": [
        "the blacksmith"
      ],
      "description": "An old, stooped Pequod blacksmith who lost both feet to frostbite after ruin and alcoholism destroyed his family. He makes Ahab’s harpoon from horse-shoe stubs, which Ahab forges and the harpooneers’ blood tempers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Gardiner",
      "aliases": [
        "the Rachel’s captain",
        "the stranger captain"
      ],
      "description": "The Nantucket captain of the Rachel, who searches desperately for a missing whaleboat carrying two of his sons. The Rachel later rescues Ishmael while retracing that search."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Gardiner’s elder son",
      "aliases": [
        "one of the missing boys",
        "his own boy"
      ],
      "description": "One of Captain Gardiner’s sons, a member of the missing Rachel whaleboat crew lost during a chase of Moby Dick."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Gardiner’s younger son",
      "aliases": [
        "the little lad",
        "one of the missing boys"
      ],
      "description": "Captain Gardiner’s twelve-year-old son, who went whaling in another boat on the same voyage and was also lost at sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "The lost Pequod masthead sailor",
      "aliases": [
        "the first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Pequod sailor who falls from the foremast while on lookout and drowns when the life-buoy fails to float."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Delight’s captain",
      "aliases": [
        "the hollow-cheeked captain",
        "the Nantucketer"
      ],
      "description": "The captain of the whaling ship Delight, whose crew is devastated by Moby Dick. He buries one of five men who died in the encounter and warns Ahab that the whale cannot be killed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Miriam",
      "aliases": [
        "little Miriam"
      ],
      "description": "One of Ahab’s young daughters, mentioned as laughing and playing around him at home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Martha",
      "aliases": [
        "little Martha"
      ],
      "description": "One of Ahab’s young daughters, mentioned as laughing and playing around him at home."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ahab’s wife",
      "aliases": [
        "the young girl-wife",
        "his wife"
      ],
      "description": "Ahab’s much younger wife, whom he married shortly before leaving for a long whaling voyage. He says his years at sea effectively left her a widow while he lived."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ahab’s son",
      "aliases": [
        "his boy",
        "the boy"
      ],
      "description": "Ahab’s young son, who lives at home with his mother and expects his father to return from the sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "The sea-hawk",
      "aliases": [
        "the black hawk",
        "the wild hawk"
      ],
      "description": "A black sea-hawk that snatches Ahab’s hat and later tears at the Pequod’s flag as the ship sinks, going down with it and Tashtego."
    },
    {
      "name": "The three oarsmen thrown from Ahab’s boat",
      "aliases": [
        "the three men"
      ],
      "description": "Three unnamed members of Ahab’s boat crew thrown into the sea during the final chase; one is Ishmael, who survives on Queequeg’s coffin life-buoy."
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