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  • Essay / The Open Boat Critical Analysis - 899

    The perspective of the natural world can be indifferent or beneficial, across life and death. It all depends on the point of view of the person interacting with nature. In the works presented, in the eyes of men (in life and in death) nature is indifferent to its life; In contrast, women see nature as a more benevolent and gentle force. Perhaps this could be explained by the different goals of men and women in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Women were even referred to as the "fairer sex" and were generally expected to be gentler. They grew up devoting themselves to crafts and care, without preparing for any serious work. Men were, however, expected to protect and guard, given their hunting and provisioning duties. When they were children, they struck the waves of the sea into sharp and angry points, nature is not kind to men in peril. But “she did not seem cruel to them at the time, nor beneficent, nor treacherous, nor wise. But she was indifferent, downright indifferent” (1003). Because their situation did not bode well, the men on the boat cannot see anything around them with the light seen in Jewett's more romantic piece. Instead, they stubbornly fight against the waters rather than working with them to return to land. In this life, nature provides nothing, but simply completes its tasks without anything. they care about the actions of little boats full of little men. They almost seem to be arguing with the water and attacking passing birds. They are in competition with what surrounds them, and in the war with nature, man will always lose. The conflicted ways of past men may have played a role in their violent objection to conforming to the laws of nature. In The Law of Life by Jack London, the protagonist explains that “nature was not kind to the flesh, she cared nothing for it. concrete thing called the individual... Nature didn't care. (1044). Not only does he argue this, but also that the rule of nature is that all must die. However, the fact that he even gives nature a set of rules shows that he is trying to constrain and understand it. again, it's about pinning down nature, controlling it, and forcing it to follow a set of rules he can understand. This apparently instinctive urge to subjugate the things around him hinders man's progress. Perhaps this is because it is not taught in any other way, but rather. is shown nature as a force to contend with as a child, or perhaps it is that the particular samples of written works presented from the 1860s onwards were biased in favor of women, but nevertheless, only the men seem to share this point of view. working with what they are given, or in this case, trying to create a life of their own, man reflects sadly on how nature takes the life she has given him.