In both Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat, and in The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, the two anagonists, Claire and Penelope, both have mournful emotions toward the ocean. Both of the girls have saddneing experiences with the ocean that has shaped the way toward people in many ways. Both Claire and Penelope have a common perspective on the ocean because of the negative encounters they have both had with the ocean. To begin, Penelope is thrown in the ocean, as an attempted homocide, by her father. Penelope’s father believes to only way to unweave the shroud of his death caused by a young Penelope is to drown her. Obviously, this plan fails, as “there is always some servant or slave [. . .] ready to regale a child with the awful things …show more content…
. .] that I attribute my reserve, as well as my mistrust of other people’s intentions” (9). The ocean itself does not literallly intentionally try to harm Penelope, but the metaphoritical way it changes her life is irreversible. While, in Claire of the Sea Light, however, Claire is not directly affected by the sea. It is, instead, someone in her small community that tragically dies while fishing alone. The realizization that “you never get back things that fell into the sea” (Danticat. 219) changes Claire’s view on her father drastically. Claire loves her father, Nozias, very much, but holds slight resentment because of his yearly tradition to try to give her away to Madame Gaёlle, so he can make himself a better life, but even after all of this she “[Claire] sometimes wishe[s] the sea would disappear” (220) because “[s]he was always afraid that one day she might have to sing that song [. . .] [n]ot about a hat, but about her heart, about her father”. Claire’s still eternal love for her father overpowers her slight resentment for him, and only wishes to be happy with him because he is all that she has in her life. Relating back to The Penelopiad both women are drastically changed by the
...d longs for her elder sister and mother. Frances is a good person – at heart – and is always looking out for her younger sister. Moreover, even though she has different views that her father and will always do the opposite of what is expected of her, it is seen that this insecurity is caused by James indeed. Frances feels that in order to gain security in her life, she must perform these actions. She feels compelled to live her life the way she does. Frances’s naughty and mischievous behaviour can be viewed as a weakness she possesses, and she longs to correct these weaknesses by her actions. She is not a role model by any means, but she is by no means the Devil’s advocate. A sincere heart – compelled by circumstances – does its best to make the situation turn out for the better than the worse, and Frances, through her love for her mother, inevitably does just that.
It’s only been Marie’s father and Marie that came in contact with it, there is not much impact when Marie’s father has the sea of flames, but when he leaves it to go to Paris, he gets stopped and arrested, this could be because he left the sea of flames. For Marie I think sea of flames could be reason why Madam Manac died because the sea of flames kills everyone who is close to the person who has it. Madam Manac has died just around the time when she is getting closer to Marie. I think for Von Rumpel it’s slowly making him insane because he is getting more and more obsessed with it. And it’s making him more anticipated since he is very close to find it. I don't think the sea of flames has special powers. I think it’s just a story that the kings made so no one would steal it. The holy grail is famous object that could be a cup,bowl or a
The two main characters depict the characteristics of chastity; they are pure, innocent and sustain the ability to refrain from being distracted and influenced by hostility, temptation, or even corruption. The readers are immediately introduced to Susanna, in the tale of Susanna at the Beach, as a captivating young girl, intoxicating her spectators with her beauty and vulnerability; just as Susanna had with the judges of Daniel and Susanna. Gold describes Susanna, “She had fled all the billboard schemes of the life of a pretty girl. Lips soft and half-parted for a grand design rather than a Lucky Strike, hands taking the measure of ambition rather than the bottle of a Coca-Cola, she has come to perfect her diving in a worn black cotton bathing suit which was already too small after her summer’s growth” (Gold, 643.) Gold is characterizing her as a young woman who surpasses the beauty of a media-driven image and foreshadows a simplistic wholesomeness that defines chastity. As the reader continues, Susanna is clearly a character una...
...and strength to break away from society. Personification is used to describe the sea. "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" (Chopin 50-51). The sea also plays metaphorical roles in the story standing as chaos and danger. This comes in to play when Edna goes into the sea and it takes her life.
“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 Swimmer” is an allegory that is narrated in third person point of view as someone who is observing Neddy’s journey. This enables the reader to discover the reactions of friends and neighbors as Neddy arrives at their homes while still revealing the shift of the round character’s own attitude and feelings as his journey through life continues. Cheever wisely tells the story from a perspective in which the reader can still be connected to Neddy from the beginning to the end of the story while learning how his actions have disappointed others and not just himself. It also uncovers the involvement of each character and their relationship with Neddy before and after his mid-life crisis. If this story was told from any other point of view then the reader would only be obtaining one sided, in a sense a close minded, version whereas with a third person point of view the reader is approached to the entire situation given all perspectives. It guides the reader from one meaningful piece to another on an even level without any bias impressions while the story is being delivered.
The paradisiacal kingdom under the sea is symbolic of childhood. At the onset of the story, the sea kingdom is described: “where the waters are as blue as the petals of the cornflower and as clear as glass, there, where no anchor can reach the bottom,” and where “[one] would have to pile many church towers on top of each other” in order to reach the surface (Andersen 217). The sea describes the deep consciousness of the Little Mermaid as a young child, which is characterized by emotion, beauty, imagination, purity and innocence - representative successively of the water, flowers, the imaginative sim...
The sea is at fault for Enda’s progression to her self-discovery as she selfishly submits to her consciousness and becomes independent. Enda’s practical uses of the sea, demonstrates her nonconformity and therefore foreshadows her suicide at the end of the novel. As she swims, the water imagery associated with the sea symbolizes empowerment, allowing Enda as she gains independence, to not only gain control of herself, but defy against society’s expectations.
During the summer of Edna's awakening, the sea's influence increases as she learns how to swim, an event which holds much more significance that her fellow vacationers realize. “To her friends, she has accomplished a simple feat; to Edna, she has accomplished a miracle” (Showalter 114). She has found a peace and tranquility in swimming which gives her the feeling of freedom. The narrator tells us that as she swims, "she seem[s] to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself" (Chopin 74). She sees the freedom t...
-Ellen G Friedman, Breaking the Master Narrative: Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, in Breaking the Sequence: Women’s Experimental Fiction. Princeton University Press, 1989,
In La Belle Dame Sans Merci it is about a knight who falls in love with a woman and he thinks she loves him as well until she puts a spell on him and he realises it is all a trick. and she doesn't care about him at all. It was written in 1819. In Mariana is about a woman and how she was engaged to Angelo who jilted her when the ship carrying her dowry was lost at sea. The sea is the sea.
Man's Place in Society and Nature in Albert Camus' The Stranger and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst that derived many of his theories from Sigmund Freud. His views of the conscious and unconscious being split and a phallocentric order as the center of society evolved from Freud’s. Lacan views our development in life as three stages or phases that one must enter into in order to become a part of society. The goal of these phases is the stabilization of signifiers. ‘Signifiers’, the elements of memory that make up the unconscious are floating around the unconscious. These ‘signifiers’ are held together by the phallocentric order which is realized in the stages of development. This may be confusing, but related to the narrator it becomes clearer. The narrator was raised in a distinct situation. When she enters into society she does not have the typical experiences of that society and therefore does not feel that she is part of it. She returns to the lake and feels she can no longer be a part of this society because the ‘phallocentric order’ is distorted. This is a brief explanation. First, Lacan’s formation of ‘self’ and ‘Other’ must be understood in great detail.
However, in the two works by Coleridge, the imagination takes on different roles in each world. In the Ancient Mariner, the imagination is the substance that holds all life together, much like how the millio...
A young seagull who loves to fly is banished from his flock, but after mastering flight, returns to share these new discoveries with his old flock. A man kept imprisoned in a dark cave is introduced to the outside world, and later returns to the cave to tell his fellow prisoners about it. On the surface, both Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach and “The Myth of the Cave” by Plato have almost childishly simple plots. In both, a character leaves his home, learns something, and returns. However, these stories gain a deeper significance when the reader views them as allegories. An allegory is like an extended metaphor; it is a seemingly simple story in which every character, place, and event has a deeper symbolic meaning. With this viewpoint,