All 7 Uses of
repent
in
Moby Dick
- As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.†
Chpt 7-9repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong
- And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.†
Chpt 7-9
- Shipmates, I do not place Jonah before you to be copied for his sin but I do place him before you as a model for repentance.†
Chpt 7-9
- Sin not; but if you do, take heed to repent of it like Jonah.†
Chpt 7-9 *repent = to express or feel regret for having done wrong
- Yet even then beyond the reach of any plummet—'out of the belly of hell'—when the whale grounded upon the ocean's utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried.†
Chpt 7-9repenting = expressing regret for having done something wrong
- In good time, nevertheless, as the ardour of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.†
Chpt 88-90repentant = feeling regret for having done something wrong
- case, wherein a gentleman, after in vain trying to bridle his wife's viciousness, had at last abandoned her upon the seas of life; but in the course of years, repenting of that step, he instituted an action to recover possession of her.†
Chpt 88-90repenting = expressing regret for having done something wrong
Definition:
to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future