Write an essay Using one keyword which is “Historical Contigency” as the focus of its interpretation of the passage.

Write an essay Using one keyword which is “Historical Contigency” as the focus of its interpretation of the passage. Then contextualize the importance of the keyword, as linked to the passage I choose from MOBY-DICK and explaining its significance for American culture. This is the passage:“our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.”