Which best explains how Melville uses his description of Ahab in Chapter 28 of Moby-Dick to comment on the nature of people?

In Chapter 28, Ahab is portrayed as consumed by his pursuit of the white whale: his fixation shapes his thoughts and actions and separates him from ordinary life. Melville uses Ahab to suggest that obsession can take over a person’s life. The passage emphasizes this consuming fixation, not guilt or inaction.

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