How Is The Character Of The Sea Treacherous?

The sea is the abode of extreme paradoxes. Grave silence and roaring tempests, terrible darkness and glitzy colors, lovely reviving life and fearful surrendering deaths, solemnity and boisterousness, good fortunes and misfortunes, an inspiration to write sonnets or elegies – you will find all these around the sea.

Imagine this, you’re alone on the sea completely lost. Nothing as far as the eye can see can guide you but you’re own thoughts. There's a war inside your head thinking about what to do why you're here and if you ever find land, how will you survive. How will this develop you as a person? How would someone else act in this situation? What is best applied to this situation? These are somewhat like the questions we ask to develop the sea archetype but in a different point of view. So, How is the sea archetype developed in other cultures? What is the same and what is different? How does this affect the story? How does it affect the characters? That is what we will be looking at today.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul." (14) Edna's senses are stimulated by all the sounds of the ocean. Along with the call of the sea, Edna becomes more aware of her own self and desires, which lead her to look within herself. As Edna's relationship with the ocean becomes more intimate, she treats the ocean as if it were her lover and true desire. "The touch of the sea is sensuous enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace." The `dreaded' fear has now converted to a `sensuous' outlook. Edna is hungry to experience all the elements of the ocean and, at the same time, she is opening herself to exploring her inner feelings.

After settling the close debate as to where the American’s wished to build their canal and purchasing the area under the 1903 Hay-Herran treaty, the U.S. needed only permission to unearth the ground.  Colombia wasn’t too fond of the idea and thus rejected all of America’s efforts.  Negotiations with the country went quite poorly as well. Arthur Beaupré was chose to communicate with Colombia but negotiations continued to go poorly as, “he was frequently blunt, even dictatorial, in his

The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.  The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.  The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace (Chopin 25).

When the corporation “Sea World” is mentioned in a sentence the first thing that comes

It was December of 2004 in Aceh, Indonesia, and Richard Lewis was an author who fantasized about the depth and mysteries of the ocean, especially tsunamis. He knew the dangers and the disasters that the ocean could cause that have taken away many innocent lives. Richard Lewis was trying to teach the theme of how friendship and companionship can make scary, difficult times easier, by telling the story, The Killing Sea. One historical fact he was well aware of was the struggle and damage tsunamis have caused and how society must work together to repair it.

As Edna starts to form this intimate relationship with the sea, it leads her to start soul searching. The sea starts her process of awakening. The sea is described as both seductive and soft, suggesting that it will guide the way and help Edna find herself. Hence, the

Now it was not only her infant but also her fetus. SD report showed that when she came too, she asked where she was, how did she get here, what happened, were her friends ok, and when can she get out of here. Only when the SD brought up her child, did she say, “Oh yah, where is my baby?”

As she was stating this issue of her son, tears poured down from her eyes and distraught to furthermore talk about it any longer. It can be inferred that she was concerned about the actions of

and without it she would be done for. The other mothers looked on with envy as their children

“The Seafarer”, an elegiac poem written during the Anglo-Saxon time period, describes a man’s travels through the sea. Throughout the first half of the poem, the narrator maintains a voice of sorrow and anger at the sea and the plight that it has forced upon him. He describes his hunger, his fear, his sorrow, and many other situations dealt upon him during his time at the sea. With the second half of the poem arrives a shift in the tone of the narrator as he claims a sense of excitement and hope over the riches of heaven. He explains the limitations of earthly goods and wealth and the eternity that a man will have in heaven depending on his character while he lived on Earth, expressing the importance of godly values within one’s character.

It was true; Parvati should have been of greater help for her best friend. She had been at the wrong place at the wrong time, however, she couldn’t help but feel disappointed in herself. There was so much she had wanted to tell her; there was so much she had planned on doing with her. Now that she was gone, though, she couldn’t help but feel like it was all her fault.

We hear only tales of its slow stricken madness. Most often it’s a fisherman, who falsely lulled by the ocean’s gentle rhythm, forgets the ravenous spirits lurking below. He wakes up on a sandy shore and sees he’s alone--his small ship decimated by the shimmering waters he knew for decades.

In his short story “Death in Midsummer”, Yukio Mishima suggests the idea that people can’t escape their own reality. Tomoko had tried to escape her own reality but could not. She took a nap to escape the summer heat and the strenuous reality of being a mother. She left her kids to be watched by her sister-in-law, Yasue. The sea was a great use of imagery used by Mishima to show the timeless reality that Tomoko comes to see about her life.