這題我也是看不懂? 因為最後一段有講到性別分類 那我到底要談到? 因為這幾本小說的性別分類好像不明顯耶? Read the critical comment quoted below carefully and then choose one novel from the American quest genre (not exclusively from Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckberry Finn, Billy Budd, or The Sea Wolf) to illustrate the thesis articulated in the quoted passage. Indeed, several examples of the quest genre – Moby-Dick (1851), The Adventures of Huckberry Finn (1884), Billy Budd (c. 1891), and The Sea Wolf (1904) － point in the opposite direction: the quester’s linear projection outward from the closed circle of societal circumspection into undefined geographic and texual space “liberate[s] him,” to paraphrase Henry James’ definition of American romance, “from the conditions that we usually know to attach to [experience],” and the consequence of that liberation, for a few of these unconventional protagonists, is the discovery of an affirming, multiform self that has broken through the strictures traditionally imposed on male social identity. Thus, the outward-bound voyage to confront the unknown that by definition constitutes quest narrative simultaneously traces and inner journey toward a redefinition of self that defies social convention and sexual categorization. --

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