Read the excerpt from chapter 28 of moby-d**k. it resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig, peels and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere running off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded. melville’s description of ahab’s scar in this excerpt best develops which theme in the novel? the ability of man to let go of past wounds the harmony that exists between man and nature the ruling of man’s present by his past wounds the destructive power of man’s technologies

the ruling of man’s present by his past wounds

Explanation:

Written by the American author Herman Melville, the book tells the story of a young sailor, Ismael, who wanted to leave on an adventure. Departing for the city of Massachussetts, one finds harpoador Queequeg; together, they embark on the Pequod, a whaling vessel, to make a three-year voyage through the southern seas. There he lives with the ship's crew, Starbuck, Stubev, and Flask, the harpooners: Daggoo and Tashtego, and the mysterious and shadowy captain Ahab, who has a huge scar and an artificial leg made of sperm whale bone. Obsessed with finding the beast responsible for his wounds and no harpooner could ever bring down - the fearsome whale - he leads the whaler and his crew along a route of danger and uncertainty.

When the author describes Ahab's scar, this description is made so that the reader understands Ahab's ability to be in control of his past wounds and to have made a decision about them. So the answer is the third option.

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