Well, Queequeg was from Kokovoko, a place not on any map, somewhere in the South Sea Islands, if I remember right. He had tattoos all over his body and he observed something that Ishmael referred to as Ramadan - whether he meant Ramadan in the Islamic sense, I don't know. In spite of their cultural differences, Queequeg and Ishmael became great friends; and I don't remember exactly either, but I think Queequeg did fire the fatal harpoon.

I never really got the impression that Hamlet wanted to be king himself as much as he wanted to expose Polonius for the fraud that he was, and avenge his father's death. So to suck them all in, he pretended to be crazy when he supposedly wasn't.

Ahab, on the other hand, was consumed with the idea of killing the whale that took his leg. Starbuck was the only one what had any sense about him.