The poems mirror one another through the feeling of terror and depression while being exiled or isolated on a ship in the cold winter. They show the fear that the two sailors have. In "The Wandered", the sailor is exiled to the sea, and he is alone and sacred. He says: Oft to the wanderer, weary of exile, Cometh Gods pity, Compassionate love, Through woefully toiling, on wintry seas With churning oar in icy wave, Homelss and helpless he fled from fate. (Kennedy 1-5) The man expresses here that he is out on the cold sea all by himself.
Both stories find themselves battling against extremely harsh weather and waves of the ocean. Although, while the characters in The Open Boat pleaded with nature, asking for its mercy, the characters in The Perfect Storm challenged and embraced it. In The Open Boat we follow the adventure of four ship wrecked men, attempting to row to solid ground but are blocked by a very unforgiving sea. As they make their way toward land, they do everything in their power to not upset nature in fate, for they believed that upsetting either would result in their death. They realize they must work with nature, instead of attempting to conquer it for they are just a speck against its awesome power.
A hero in the sea The open boat In the story “the open boat” (Crane 185-187) Billie is one of the guys on the boat that showed a lot of strength and courageous of the boat and the people that’s on it. Other guys on the boat including the captain show carelessness most of the time by sleeping around and being exhausting form sailing. Billie Was the hero that took the correspondence’s place more than enough, even when he knew the correspondence just wanted to sleep. He kept sailing towards the beach. It was a great end for Billie showing his heroic skills, although he didn’t knew about it.
| * Very self- absorbed * Believes pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life * Helps other solely to make himself feel better * Indifferent to moral consequence * Nothing is entirely good or entirely evil * Recognizes he is disgusting * Accepts that he cannot force society to conform to his desires | Svidrigailov comes closest to living Raskolnikov’s “extraordinary man” philosophy. Svidrigailov is an important character in Crime and Punishment because his decisions and lifestyle portray the punishment and fate of men who adhere to the “extraordinary man” theory. There comes a point in the novel when both Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov feel a sense of hopelessness and listlessness for their beliefs and actions. Raskonikov, however, is redeemed by his love for Sonya and the love his friends and family. He experiences humility.
In both the novel The Outsider and the movie “Dead poets Society” it is evident that liberty does not exist, since a person is only free while obeying society’s guidelines. It is difficult to Accept that a people live by society’s expectations. Every person aspires to be unique and to have an original life, but everyone lives and acts the way in which they are expected to. This is clearly illustrated by the character Meursault as his personality bothers the reader indirectly, because he is so distinct. The first lines of the novel demonstrate the type of person he is, as he says “Maman died today.
In S.T Coleridge’s poem, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798), the mariner finally finds peace and reconciliation after his long and tormented journey. Although the Albatross is a Christian symbol of hope, it is also a symbol of guilt to the mariner. The mariner suffers anguish and pain as the Albatross hangs on his neck, plunging him into hell. From this point, the mariner begins to realise the act that he committed was extremely terrible. The imagery created through the use of anaphoric assonance, “Alone, alone, all, all, alone, alone in a wide, wide sea” with “nothing but agony” shows the anguish and pain of complete isolation.
In “The Open Boat”, a short story by Stephen Crane, the characters are trapped out at sea and the tale details their eventful journey to seemingly certain death. The language he used created a chaotic scene, and it felt like there was no hope for any of the characters. The small, fragile boat trapped in the midst of a storm at night created a sense of suspense for me as the reader. It seems as if by describing everything in such detail, that Crane wanted us to focus on the character’s reaction to what happened, rather than the event itself. You could see the large sway the captain had on his crew members as he soothed them with reassuring words “like children” (273).
All of these phrases illustrate Nick being unsure, which makes him a non omniscient narrator. Nick knows nothing more than we do in this novel, if not less. We cannot take what Nick says to be literal due to his indecrepancies as a narrator. He is not credible and since there are moments in the novel where Nick cannot be seen as credible, it makes the whole novel questionable because if he lies and alters his perception at certain moment, what’s to say he’s not that way all along. Nick sees Gatsby as a wonderful man who can do no wrong in his eyes.
“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom”(97). Jim’s excitement in knowing that he’s almost a free man demonstrates his unrelenting desire to be free. These mutual feelings of wanting to escape an old life between Huck and Jim do not crossover to Tom, however. Tom, being raised in relative comfort, is used to living with strict adherence to a list of “rules”. Even though Tom makes his own rules and uses the river as a “base of operations” of sorts, its his adherence to the ideas of having rules that contrasts Huck’s defiant attitude towards authority and constrictions.
Gaffney highlights John’s alienation because of the new world’s discouragement for Shakespeare. The awkward situation leaves him embarrassed, beginning his isolation from modern society. John’s entire life has been spent in solitude reading Shakespeare. Suddenly immersed in a society in which his behavior is completely taboo, John finds himself even further separated from the community than he was on the reservation. Bernard observes that John may never be able to completely assimilate into this environment, “partly on his interest, being focused on what he calls ‘the soul’ which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment” (158).