Essay on Adrienne Rich's "Diving Into the Wreck"

The structure of a novel enables it to embody, integrate and communicate its content by revealing its role in the creation and perception of it. A complex structure such as that of Robert Drewe’s work The Drowner, published in 1996, refers to the interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity1. Drewe’s novel is a multi-faceted epic love story presenting a fable of European ambitions in an alien landscape, and a magnificently sustained metaphor of water as the life and death force2. The main concerns of the novel include concerns about love, life, death and human frailty. These concerns are explored through the complex structure of the novel. That is, through its symbolic title, prologues, and division into sections. The

     Although the men are pitted against an uncaring sea, they still at this point seem to think their destinies are controlled by some outside force. Their collective thoughts are given: 'If I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?...If this old ninny-woman, Fate, cannot do better than this, she should be deprived of the management of men's fortunes.'(6) It soon dawns on them, though, that there is no 'fate,' no purpose for their being where they are. It is the realization of this fact that brings the men to the brink of despair: 'When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.'(6) It seems to them that their

The Open Boat, written by Stephen Crane is discusses the journey of four survivors that were involved in a ship wreck. The oiler, the cook, the captain, and the correspondent are the survivors that make onto a dingey and struggle to survive the roaring waves of the ocean. They happen to come across land after being stranded in the ocean for two days and start to feel a sense of hope that they would be rescued anytime soon. They began feeling down as they realize nobody was going to rescue them and make an attempt to reach shore. The story discusses an external conflict of man vs nature to help state clearly the central idea. The central idea of the story conveys man’s success against nature when ones’ abilities are combined together to increase the chances of survival. The use of 3rd person limited omniscience and character analysis helps to explain how the journey of the men’s survival to get out of the ocean and reach shore is able to succeed while Stephen Crane uses symbolism to demonstrate the unity created amongst the survivors.

To start out analyzing this archetypal setting we must identify what the sea archetype actually is and where it came from. According to Deborah Rudd from billstifler.org, she says that the sea is, “the mother of all life; spiritual mystery; death and/or rebirth; timelessness and eternity”. It also says this on Yourdictionary.com, a site where education from levels 7 to even collage is accepted, that the sea,”Can be both good and evil, with dangers and treasures. It can also show infinity.” Both sites said something similar in terms of life but when looking at the article from your dictionary there can be good and bad sides to the sea and this stays true throughout different cultures.

Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cat Woman; when you hear the word hero or heroine that is who you think of. The most famous heroes of all time, as well as the not so famous heroes such as Hazel, fit the archetype of a hero; they are all courageous, resourceful, and strong-willed. Most people don’t notice that almost all action/adventure movies and novels are the same. All of their stories fit the archetypal pattern of a heroic quest. A heroic quest consists of twelve steps that the hero completes throughout his or her journey. In this essay, I will be explaining the parallels between Watership Down by Richard Adams and the archetypal pattern of a heroic quest; as well as the parallels between

“The Swimmer” is an allegory that is narrated in third person point of view as someone who is observing Neddy’s journey. This

A possible passage through the American continent to the indies was earnestly being explored just as the poet's body was probably being probed and prodded to seek enlightenment or a successful path. This analogy is made clear by the clever extended pun on 'straits' as both a trade route and a personal dilemma. They are itemised so that the link is not missed for the Western Sea, to which all the straits led, also represents death and entry into the next life: "So death doth touch the Resurrection

In Leanne Simpson’s short story “it takes an ocean not to break,” (“Islands of Decolonial Love” 2015), the author, through the continuing change of tone, paints a portrait of the depths of trauma that is persistent in indigenous society and one of its central issues, suicide. The “therapy-lady” is portrayed as the “other” when put into contact with Indigenous problems and her words come off as almost foreign to the speaker. She can be seen as an allegorical character that represents “white” ideology, or even our current government as a whole, who tries to help the Indigenous people but ultimately fails, not only due to lack of caring but in reality a lack of understanding.

Our world is full of mystery. There are countless unknown traces from the past all over the world and they are waiting to be solved and answered. Archaeology studies the ancient human past through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains. In fact, archaeology is the tool that decipher the clues that are found through its continuous development of excavation and methods. The advance of new technologies in recent decades enable archaeologists to excavate previously unapproachable areas, such as underwater. The underwater archaeology is developed in order to discover the lost shipwrecks and various

Rather than exploring lighter tones in her stories, she can only express herself through trauma. Let’s now explore what methods Danticat uses to explore such literary cliché’s within ‘Children of the Sea’.

For every ship, one side, there is the drummer. A drumming man has been denoted in the panels as a chief for the ritualistic ceremonies. Most of the ships have on the other hand the sun cross. These ships, therefore, present the entirety of the three realities that were present for the human being in a funeral ceremony. The drummer on one side represents the community that is remaining on earth. This person is depicted as reclining from the ship. While he mourns the death of the departed people, he acknowledges that he is part of that journey. He will, therefore, rejoin the departed ones later. Inside the ship are those who are already dead. These are the people who are in the journey. They are traveling towards the sun. The other side of the boat, therefore, represents the afterlife through the sun cross. The ship this presents a funeral as a connection between the death and the living, all in transit to the sun

With the use of imagery, the reader is able to envision a coherent picture of a world reflected in the pond water. When the author mentions, “A flag wags like a fishhook down there in the sky”, she is comparing a flag to a fishhook, a sharp rigid object that lodges in a fish's mouth, perhaps seemingly the same fish she is seeing in the pond water. A flag is something harmless when hung in the sky, but with her perspective of the world in the reflection of the water she is viewing this flag as a harmful fishhook that hurts the fish. Additionally, she goes on to state, “The arched stone bridge is an eye, with underlid in the water”, thus with this statement she is illustrating the bridge has a capacity of viewing the world with the use of personification, metaphor. This also symbolizes that since the theme is about perception, the bridge is the eye that witnesses everything going on in the

The swimmer finds himself past the point of no return in the quest, so to speak, and at the mercy of whatever he encounters, such as the shark Connelly suggests in the imagery of the last stanza. Finally, Connelly ended the poem by writing “But what we own beyond a shadow of a doubt is our fear of being eaten alive, torn apart in depths we have entered willingly” (20-27). This part of the metaphor uses the violent image of being attacked by a shark to represent the severity of our encounter with the sublime. In the quest for the ideal the only thing we can be certain of is that it will not be easy and the uncertainty of what will be there waiting for you. The shark in the ocean’s depth is an apppropriate symbol for the sublime as defined by Rousseau’s explanation of Kant’s philosophy: “something that is fearful and incomprehensible that one wants to resist” (“Kant’s Beauty and the Sublime” 1).

In the first five stanzas, the author discusses the already submerged ship. ?Stilly couches she,? describes the ship resting on the bottom of the ocean. The lines, ?Jewels in joy designed?lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind?, point out the waste of money, technology and craftsmanship going down with the

Waves crashing against the broken raft that is from the pieces of a once great ship holding the survivors that were left behind. In a great french romanticism painting the story of the crashed ship, the Medusa is told. The painting of the Raft of the Medusa gives me the feeling of having the will to fight through and overcome anything. Even though they were left behind to fend on their own they did not let that defeat them. I relate to this painting in the way of overcoming any obstacle and even being left behind I will still turn out okay.