All 4 Uses of
prejudice
in
Moby Dick
- Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.†
Chpt 1-3
- Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.†
Chpt 16-18
- Only the most unprejudiced of men like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are not so fastidious.†
Chpt 64-66
Definition:
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(prejudice) bias that prevents objective consideration -- especially an unreasonable belief that is unfair to members of a race, religion, or other group