Did the whale in Moby Dick die?

Answer 1

Pip dies first, he throws himself over board.

Answer 2

Moby Dick lives, at least in the novel, so I would also say he lives in the film. At the end of the book, Ahab has the chance to throw only one harpoon into Moby Dick, and it is the line from that harpoon, as it runs out, that catches Ahab around the neck, and at that point the whale just disappears. The harpoon used by 19th century whalers was not designed or intended to kill the whale, nor could it possibly do so in any way; it was merely a way to fasten the boat to the whale. The harpoon had an arrow-head shaped blade on the end, and barbs which made it stick in the whale's blubber once it was thrown, but it did not go much deeper. Once the whale got tired of dragging the boat across the ocean, then the whalers would haul in next to the tired whale and use a much longer weapon, called a lance, which had a petal-shaped blade on the end. The lance was thrust deep into the whale, in an effort to reach the whale's heart or lungs, and then withdrawn and thrust in again and again until the heart, lungs, or an artery was pierced and the whale finally died. This was usually a fairly long and bloody and cruel process, and it was extremely dangerous for the whalers, as well.

In fact, in the Huston film, when Ahab (Peck) is seen tied to the back of the whale and he starts stabbing him in the back over and over, that is a lance he is using in that scene, and not a harpoon, because he keeps sticking it into the whale and removing it and then sticking it in again, and you can see the petal-shaped blade. And even that fails to kill Moby Dick at that point, because Ahab is on the wrong part of the whale to do any real serious damage, and we do see Moby swimming around for quite a while after Ahab drowns.

Answer 3

Yes. Ahab throws a harpoon into Moby Dick but a coil of rope attached to the harpoon catches his neck and he is subsequently drowned. The Pequod is destroyed along with all the crew except Ishmael, who is rescued by a ship previously encountered on the voyage, the Rachael.

Answer 4

Yes, the whale in Moby Dick, named Moby Dick, dies at the end of the novel when Captain Ahab finally confronts him and is killed in the encounter.

Answer 5

No, he did not die, but some say in an alternate ending written in another book, the name not mentioned, he did, but in the real version he did not, he actually killed Captain Ahab.

Answer 6

No. He kills everyone, and Ishmael is the only Survivor. But go read the book.

Answer 7

Yes, Moby dick did die

Answer 8

Moby Dick is not dead yet