The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. What theme of the novel does this excerpt best address? nature’s indifference to man man’s indifference to nature the self-destructive nature of obsession the personal empowerment that comes from obsession.

Read the passage below my men came pressing round me, pleading: 'why not take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it? we'll drive the kids and lambs aboard. we say put out again on good salt water! ' ah, how sound that was! yet i refused. i wished to see the caveman, what he had to offer – no pretty sight, it turned out, for my friends. -the odyssey, homer what inferences can be made about odysseus based on his choice to stay and see the cyclops? check all that apply. a. odysseus does not care about his crew. b. odysseus is curious about what the cyclops is like. c. odysseus wants to see if the cyclops will give him anything. d. odysseus is scared of the cyclops. e. odysseus needs to show who is in charge by not following what his men say.