aspects in his sixth novel Moby Dick, and even made one of the characters confess that "it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan". Furthermore, in his letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, he wrote that he had written "a wicked book.”. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is a novel rich in symbolism, namely that from a religious stance, during the mid and late nineteenth century it is evident that Melville had a lack of God or religion in his life. A frequent motif in Melville’s works is that of having