Write an essay Using one keyword which is “HISTORICAL CONTINGENCY” as the focus of its interpretation of the passage. Then contextualize the
importance of the keyword, as linked to the passage I choose from MOBY-DICK and explaining its significance for American culture. This is the
passage:
“our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to
learn it.”