Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) of Starbuck to stop chasing Moby Dick because the ship is operating at a loss and the quest for the sperm whale could end in everyone's death. Queequeg engages in passive resistance by completing refusing to do any work on the ship and throws down his harpoon. At the end, Ahab dies in his attempt to kill Moby Dick. The whaling ship sinks. Patrick Stewart took the lead role shortly after making a striking reference to the book, and quoting from it, in "". Gregory Peck appeared as Father Mapple more than 40 years after he played Ahab in the
Moby Dick (whale) splinters or drive them back to their ship. What seemed the White Whale's “infernal aforethought of ferocity” that every dismembering or death that he caused was not wholly regarded as that of an " unintelligent agent." He bit off Ahab's leg, leaving Ahab to swear “wild vindictiveness” on him. Ishmael, however, is haunted by a "nameless horror" so "mystical and well nigh ineffable" that he could hardly express: It was "the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me." At the end of the novel, Moby Dick destroys the "Pequod". Ahab and the crew are drowned, with the