Grandpa Bobby tells his story: some people offered him a job smuggling emeralds from South America, but later double-crossed him, tried to kill him, and stole his beloved fishing boat. Ever since then, he's been trying to track them down and get back his boat. It hurt to think that everyone thought he was dead, but it was necessary. First, he didn't want the guys he was looking for to know he was still alive; second, he also knew that if his son found out, he would, true to form, drop everything and rush down to South America without another thought. Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV.
That is how the ocean is wearing a mask of innocence and is hypnotizing to people. Another example of symbolism in The Scorpio Races is the quote, “Nothing is as red as the sea that day.” (252). This quote is used when Sean’s dad dies in the story. As this is a tragic moment in the book for Sean. The sea that day is so red because it is contaminated by the blood of Sean’s dad.
Get the goddamn sail down!” (pg. 217) Storm tipped over their boat and although Jordan was the better swimmer, he drowned. Conrad blames himself for his death and that is the moment when he encounters his first big instability or problem.
Explore the ways Coleridge tells his story in Part 3 of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In Part 3, the poem becomes more fantastical as the spiritual world continues to punish the Ancient Mariner and his fellow sailors. Although later in the poem Coleridge reveals that a specific spirit is responsible for their demise, it seems as though the spiritual world as a whole is punishing the men, using the natural world as its weapon: the wind refuses to blow, the ocean churns with dreadful creatures, and the sun's relentless heat chars the men. The ghost ship, however, is separate from the natural world - it sails without wind, and its inhabitants are spirits. Death and Life-in-Death are allegorical figures who become frighteningly real for the sailors, especially the Ancient Mariner, whose soul Life-in-Death "wins", thereby dooming him to a fate worse than death. Even those sailors whose souls go to hell seem freer than the Ancient Mariner; while their souls fly unencumbered out of their bodies, he is destined to be trapped in his indefinitely - a living hell.
We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river.” | The two boys are being alienated from society, as is described in this quote. They must live by themselves and escape and signs of humanity, so that Jim cannot be found and reprimanded for his actions. Also, they become bored with themselves, and it is seen how they wish they did not distance themselves from society so much. | Realism | 12 | 66 | “…I felt just the way any other boy would’a’ felt when I seen that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river.
As Odysseus is sailing away he yells his true name back to the island and Polyphemus prays to his father Poseidon to take a vengeance on Odysseus. Odysseus brought hardship upon himself when he yelled his name back to Polyphemus. Because Odysseus angered Poseidon and brought the gods wrath down upon himself and his men, he lost all of his remaining soldiers who were traveling home to Ithaka with him. This was a total of twelve ships full of men. Many of whom would have survived the trip if not for the choices that Odysseus made.
Poseidon and Odysseus are the most noticeable representatives of the theme of vengeance. In order to escape from the cave of the Cyclops (Polyphemus), Odysseus blinds the one-eyed giant (Book 9). Unfortunately, the Cyclops is the sea god Poseidon's son; Odysseus has engaged a formidable enemy. Poseidon can't kill Odysseus because the Fates have determined that he will make it home. However, the sea god can help to fulfill his son's wish that Odysseus should arrive in Ithaca late, broken, and alone, his shipmates lost, and his household in trash.
Guilt is a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offence, crime or wrong doing. Guilt is a cause of suicide. Conrad’s attempted suicide, in the novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest, was caused by guilt. Conrad felt guilty about his brother’s death with the boating accident. He felt like he should have been the one to die, so he tried to take his own life away.
As the deaths continued and the monster’s vengeance inclined, Victor became increasingly enthralled in his problems and seemingly ignored others’. He could have killed the creature after he found that he killed William and Justine.. Instead, Victor san and reduced to face his problems face to face, he escaped. To call Victor a “hero” would be ignorant. He did create life, however he never took flu responsibility, always took the easy way out and was the force that created the suffering of the novel.
As Macbeth first feels the immense guilt of killing his king, he asks himself: “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand?” And answering his own question he states: “No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red.”(2,2,57-60). The powerful image of Neptune’s vast oceans and multitudinous seas being unable to cleanse Macbeth’s blood stained hands further implies that Macbeth will never be forgiven for his gruesome deed, and that his guilt will plague him till his final day on earth. As he enjoys the spoils of the “King of Scotland”, Macbeth becomes plagued with inevitable guilt and remorse so severely that he becomes blind of the heinous acts of murder that he permits, claiming “It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood.” (3,4,121). Blood having blood serves as a continuous cycle, therefore Macbeth’s killing will become a habit and his guilt of killing shall not impede him from his goals of slaughtering possible deceitful subjects, including his close friend Banquo, of whom he finds justification for killing “with thy bloody and invisible hand/ Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond/ Which keeps me pale!”(3,2,48-50). The “great bond” that Macbeth refers to represents Banquo’s lease on life, and as he terminates that bond, Macbeth supposes his pale and bloodless face with replenish with the blood of his adversary, symbolically driving all other guilt he once felt out of his soul and gone forever