| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第7-10页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第10-16页 |
| 3 The Functions of the Sea in Moby Dick | 第16-23页 |
| ·The Sea as a Setting in Unifying the Whole Novel | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Sea as a Realm of Sublimity | 第19-23页 |
| 4 The Binary Opposition of the Sea and the Land | 第23-28页 |
| ·The Sea Vs. the Land: A Vision of Utopia Vs. A Dehumanizing Reality | 第23-25页 |
| ·Melville’s Worlds: New Bedford, Nantucket and the Pequod | 第25-28页 |
| 5 The Sea as a Symbol in the Characters’Eyes | 第28-40页 |
| ·Pip’s Sea: A Sea of Indifference | 第29-31页 |
| ·Father Mapple’s Sea: An Agent of God’s Will | 第31-34页 |
| ·Queequeg’s Sea: A Heaven of the Pagan Faith | 第34-36页 |
| ·Ahab’s Sea: A Mask of Inscrutable Malice behind it | 第36-38页 |
| ·Young Ishmael’s Sea: A Transcendental Oneness | 第38-40页 |
| 6 The Narrator Ishmael’s Sea: Meditation and Water are Wedded forever | 第40-46页 |
| ·The Narrator Ishmael as a Spokesman of Herman Melville | 第41-43页 |
| ·Melville’s Sea: the Fluid and Paradoxical Thoughts in Moby Dick | 第43-46页 |
| 7 Conclusion | 第46-49页 |
| Bibliography | 第49-52页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第52-53页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第53页 |
