Life Of Pi And The Lamb Comparison

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Thesis: In portraying life as a quest for survival, Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience and Lee’s film, The Life of Pi follow the inevitable pattern of growth from innocence of childhood to the savage world of adulthood.
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In his poetic collection, Songs of Innocence and Experience, Blake juxtaposes the innocence of childhood with the savage world of adulthood. The collection contains two poems that are key to this examination of human growth, The Lamb and The Tyger. The Lamb reflects the innocence of childhood and early life as the lamb portrays a purely helpless figure. The poem is broken into two parts, a question in the first stanza, followed by an answer in the second stanza. At the beginning, the speaker in the poem …show more content…

The Tyger begins with a main question, “What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake, Tyger L. 3-4). The speaker is asking the tyger what immortal being made him? Then the poem proceeds to the next stanza where a second question arises, “In what distant deeps or skies, Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?” (Blake, Tyger L. 5-8). The speaker is now asking the tyger who made the fire in his eyes? Now the speaker moves on to question the power of the tyger in the third stanza, “And what shoulder, and what art, could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? And what dread feet?” (Blake, Tyger L. 9-12). The reader cannot believe the amount of power this great creature has. He questions who could put so much power in one’s body. Next, in the fourth stanza there is a shift. The speaker still questions the force of creation but now it is clear that the speaker is in awe of the creator of the ferocious tyger and of the creation. “What the anvil? What dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp!” (Blake, Tyger L. 15-16).In the fifth stanza the speaker’s awe on the creation of the tiger is continued; however, a new question pops up, “did he who made the Lamb make …show more content…

Pi will learn to kill, he will learn the dangers of the night, the dangers of the sea, and the dangers of the tiger. Pi is no longer innocent he is experiencing great hardships and learning to deal with his inner savage animal. According to writer Gary Krist, “Pi understands that his own survival depends on keeping his ferocious opponent alive and well -- ''because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger. If I still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker''” (Krist Webb). Pi has to accept his tiger to

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