How does Herman Melville's metaphor of 'Moby-Dick' as a 'whiteness of the whale' reflect the complexity of existentialism and the sublime nature of lawlessness in the novel?

In ‘Moby-Dick,’ Melville uses the ‘whiteness of the whale’ to symbolize the enigmatic and chaotic aspects of existence. The color white, often associated with purity, paradoxically represents the inscrutable and indifferent forces of nature. This duality reflects existentialist themes of meaninglessness and the sublime terror of an ungoverned universe.

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