THE RESEARCH ATTEMPTS TO STUDY THE ROLE RELIGIOUS ALLEGORIES IN HERMAN MELVILLE’S MOBY DICK. MOBY DICK IS NOW CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS; IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE 1920S THAT MOBY DICK BEGAN TO CONQUER ITS DIGNIFIED STATUS. SOME LITERARY CRITICS SEE RELIGION IN MOBY DICK AS A STRUGGLE BETWEEN MELVILLE'S PERSONAL ADOPTION OF UNITARIANISM, AND THE CALVINISM OF HIS FATHER AND MOTHER. IN THE STORY, THE AUTHOR HAS A MESSAGE FOR HIS READERS, BUT HE SUGGESTS HIS MESSAGE THROUGH A FASCINATING ARRAY OF SYMBOLS AND RELIGIOUS ALLEGORIES; THEREFORE THE MORAL MESSAGE COMES ACROSS THROUGH THE BIBLICAL STORIES IN THE NOVEL. THE AUTHOR DELIBERATELY MAKES AN INDIRECT REFERENCE TO THE NOVEL’S MESSAGE, MELVILLE DOES NOT AGREE WITH THIS CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY THAT SAYS THAT "MAN’S LIFE IS BUT A SHADOW ON EARTH” AND INSTEAD STATES THROUGH SYMBOLISM AND THE JOURNEY OF THE PEQUOD THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE LIFE, AND MAN PAYS FOR HIS DEEDS DURING HIS LIFETIME AND NOT AFTER DEATH. THIS VIEW SEEMS TO AGREE WITH THE RELIGIOUS REVIVALISM IN THE 1830S, WHICH SPOKE OF INSTANT OR IMMEDIATE SALVATION. IN HIS LITERARY WORKS, BOTH SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS ALIKE, HERMAN MELVILLE USES ALLEGORIES TO DEMONSTRATE LIFE LESSONS. IN FACT THE READER MUST SEEK SOMETHING BEYOND THE CHARACTERS, SCENES AND EVENTS REPRESENTED IN THE NOVEL. A STUDY AS SUCH, UNDOUBTEDLY REQUIRES A THEORETICAL BASIS. THE MOST APPROPRIATE APPROACH WILL BE TO USE ALLEGORICAL ANALYSIS IN RELIGIOUS FORM.