Meaning: Hope, guidance, inspiration and creativity.
Depiction: Queequeg sits in a whaling boat, holding a pole with a lit lantern on the end. He is drenched, surrounded by equally soaked crewmates including Starbuck and Ishmael, hoping to be spotted and rescued by the ship. The boat is half filled with water; one of Queequeg's feet is on the floor of the boat, the other leg is bent with his foot on the board that he sits on (replicating the in-and-out of water stance of the RWS figure). A yellow star is in the sky.
Text: Chapter 48: The First Lowering
There, then he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
Comments: I had so much trouble with this one! What was really tough was to find a single scene in Moby Dick that represented hope, as it's not a very hopeful book.
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