This paper discuses the formation of an enemy and how it is represented in Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Melville's "Moby Dick". Along with Citations.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. This phrase is one that we have all heard at some point or another, but what does it really mean to have an enemy or to be the enemy of someone. In many cases a person won't even know he is someone's enemy till that someone tries harming him. While in other cases the individuals won't even know each other because they will be fighting a war …

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