Herman Melville was a man who wrote of man's innocence and man's evil. He wrote of the agonies of self-discovery, as well as the betrayal one receives on the way to these discoveries.
             In the early part of Melville's life, he looked upon humanity and saw innocence. He saw man and life in an optimistic way. At that time in his life, he wrote many of his adventurous stories, which made him so popular in the literary world. With this confidence, Melville felt the need to expand his writing style more; he wanted to write more out of his soul. During this period of his life the now classic Moby Dick was written. Moby Dick is a story "in which a whaling voyage becomes the image of man's struggle against the forces of the universe," (American Literature) and was aspired by Melville's keen interest in the inter-workings of God, Nature, and Man. This story represents the changes that Melville was experiencing. Before writing Moby Dick Herman Melville was an innocent man. He viewed life as good, and every man as open and hardworking, but after Moby Dick was published people portrayed him differently. The majority of the people did not enjoy Melville's new style of writing, and his book was considered a failure. But Melville continued to study humanity, and continued to write the books that people didn't want to see. As he did this, Melville began to realize the evil side of man and the agonies of self-discovery. He saw that when man saw something he did not want to see, he'd shun it, and when man didn't agree or didn't understand something, he'd shun it. Melville was trying to open the eyes of these people to show them what would happen, but noone listened because they knew it was too close to the truth, and they couldn't bare it.
             Despite his failure in popularity and finance, Melville continued to write. This persistence showed Melvill
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