This literary character titles a genre-bending one-act “Ballad” from a Dave Malloy musical adaptation and is sung in a trouser role by the only female vocalist of a Jake Heggie operatic adaptation. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this boy who is said to see “God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom” after nearly drowning and being rescued, an experience that causes him to go mad and speak in the third person.
ANSWER: Pip [or Pippin]
[10e] Like Starbuck and Queequeg, Pip is one of the crew members aboard the Pequod in this novel.
ANSWER: Moby-Dick [or Moby-Dick: or, The Whale]
[10m] In a chapter titled for this object, Pip responds to various interpretations of it by enigmatically remarking, “I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look.” Ahab nails this object to the mast of the ship as a prize.
ANSWER: gold doubloon [prompt on gold coin or gold]
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