Talk: Fredugg

I think this character is based on Pip from Moby Dick, but I can't figure out what wordplay is involved in Pip=Fredugg. If he was called Greatexpectations, I could get that.Matthew Babe Stevenson (talk) 08:43, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

You're right, he is Pip, but I don't see the pun, either. TR (talk) 15:01, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Complete shot in the dark here, but given that Pip is the only black character in a novel of the late antebellum, might the name be a contraction of Frederick Douglass? Turtle Fan (talk) 16:26, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

I buy it. The lead character is named Milvil and not an anagram of Ishamel, afterall. TR (talk) 21:13, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Except that Melville is the author of MD, who created Ishmael as his exaggerated autobiographical avatar. Frederick Douglass had no connection to the novel, nor did he do anything in his life that paralleled the MD storyline, unless you count the institution of slavery in the United States in general as his proverbial white whale to hunt unto the death. And wasn't Daggoo in MD a black man?Matthew Babe Stevenson (talk) 06:35, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Well as I said it was just a shot in the dark. If I'm right I don't think it's a terribly clever pun at all. Turtle Fan (talk) 14:36, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Daggoo was black, but Pip was from the U.S. And what you listed is correct, but may mean nothing in the face of an author's whims. TR (talk) 14:44, 19 August 2021 (UTC)