Chapter 83: Moby DIck

This chapter details the possibilities of how Jonah might have survived within a whale and that possibly the whale wasn't alive at all. However I think that Melville chooses to demean the idea of Jonah within a dead carcass by the previous events in the book. First when Tashtego almost dies from being in a whale not only from suffocation but from sinking to the bottom; then when the large whale sinks. Throughout the book the miracles or legends of a whale have been very impressive and the idea of Jonah hiding within a dead whale does not fit the theme.