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Default Re: Hi help me Moby Dick

Take for example, Robinson Crusoe by Defoe. The lack of women is obvious here, too. But regarding this book, critics suggested that Defoe saw women, romantic love as an obstacle to economic advancement. And I wonder if this idea was applied by Melville, too.!?
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