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Kelvin And Rhyea Sparknotes

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Kelvin and Rhyea’s relationship on the station are simply a regret of Kelvins past that the ocean discovered in his dreams. Rhyea is the embodiment of an unrelenting memory of his failures, a reminder of his personal faults and their effects on the love of his enraged life. Now the “life” of the ocean is acting as a god to Kelvin, making him question his own loyalties, ideologies of science, and perspectives and faith in religious systems. Stanislaw Lem created this story in order to project the cognitive and physical process of loss, this being a main reason we get a majoritily one sided view of Kelvins interaction with his “visitor”. Kelvin then begins to have an external and internal conflict about what he really thinks about his science, and the universes’ god. …show more content…

He begins at first with no change in his views and opinions but as Kelvin progresses through the story (meeting the crew) he eventually becomes more open to the unknown. Because of this war with the ocean and the occurrences of Solarian life for the present crew evidently Kelvin ends up becoming as mentally confused as the rest of the group before him. He eventually loses to his inner conflicts and allows for everything around him to collapse. Kelvins Kris is a character that resembles air, you see it, feel it, know it is there, but overall it's forgettable as if it doesn’t exists. Because we don’t know much about Kelvins past it hard for us to understand his previous views other than as a scientist. Because of the events that happen on Solaris the only thing that Kelvin has to define him (other than air) is taken away. Even his fake wife from the dead Rhyea understands that he changes throughout the story. The irony of this is as a psychologist Kelvin should have a better hold of his emotions and keep a linear way of thinking in strenuous

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