Which feature of Gothic writing does this passage from Herman Melville's Moby-D best illustrate?
Wherefore he had no fancy for lowering for whales after
sun-down; nor for persisting in fighting a fish that too
much persisted in fighting him. For, thought Starbuck, I am
here in this critical ocean to kill whales for my living, and
not to be killed by them for theirs, and that hundreds of
men had been so killed Starbuck well knew.
A. Dark emotions
B. Suspense
O C. Nature's power
O D. Madness

Sorry, what passage, i don’t see one? i can you in pm’s if you’d like.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.