Read the excerpt from chapter 28 of moby-dic. it had previously come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale’s jaw. how is the fact that ahab’s leg is made from whale bone significant to the novel’s theme of man versus nature? it signifies that ahab has pitted himself against nature in an effort to dominate it. it signifies that ahab lives a life in harmony with the natural world. it signifies that ahab has made a choice to surrender to the power of the whales he hunts. it signifies that ahab see himself as an equal and dependent part of a greater whole.

It signifies that Ahab sees himself as an equal and dependent part of a greater whole. Simply, he's lost part of himself trying to dominate it so now he is dependent upon it.

It signifies that Ahab has pitted himself against nature in an effort to dominate it.

the answer is: b: however, that doesn’t mean that the current drought isn’t real.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing