Literature is a way and means to express the objective world and subjective understanding by using oral or written language as the medium. When words are not only used for recording (history books, news reports, scientific papers, etc.).
Only when they are endowed with other thoughts and emotions and have the beauty of art can they be called literature and art, which belongs to language art. Poetry, prose, novels, dramas, novels, plays, fables, fairy tales and other different genres.
It is an important form of literature. Literature in different forms, namely genres, expresses inner feelings and reproduces social life in a certain period and region.
Ishmael in Moby Dick Ishmael is a pleasing character, who plays the role of the main character as well as narrator. He makes up for with a full personality that his described extensively throughout the book. Ishmael is a man who seeks what is best described as “inner peace”. He is very content with himself when on the water, and has a great love for being a seaman. He joins the crew of the Pequod to satisfy his longing to be back on the ocean, but as it turns out, the particular voyage he is to set out on is not what he had suspected. For this ship would be commanded by a half-crazed captain in a desperate search for a viscous white whale. Over all, Ishmael is definitely the most civilized and wise man in the story.