NOAH'S ARK
In Not wanted on the voyage, Timothy Findley rewrites a story that we believe we know and understand, the biblical myth of the deluge, and in doing so he unfolds the truth of the story. But to reveal the truth, Findley has to recognize that the Bible does not present a factual account of an actual flood, for the importance of the flood is not its historical accuracy but its meaning for humanity. And thus Not Wanted on the Voyage reminds us that, however charming the vision of the ark and its animals may appear in a de-historicized culture setting, it is not an innocent one. Findley on the other hand attempts to prove that the hierarchal structure makes a holocaust very possible. This statement may perplex some, however the questions, which arouse as I read this novel are, does the hierarchal structure create order? And do humans with authority have the right to obliterate sinners? But before I endeavor to answer these questions I ask of you to look at our society and question whether power or having the upper hand gives anyone the right to take away life. In the Bible God did, He saw the wickedness of man and brought a “flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life” (Genesis CH 6). Simi
Therefore, it is this concept of love, in the hierarchical and dichotomous structure that preserve an abusive power relationship in which those who are dominated demand subservience and respect from those who are regarded lower, which has been the spotlight of much analysis of this novel. I have chosen to elucidate Findley’s pessimism about human society and his refusal of established structures of order, and in so doing this I will explicate the way in which Findley exposes domination. This novel no doubt stands for a system that is "authoritarian, hierarchical, exploitative and, above all, mobilized to destroy the enemy” (UNESCO) or simply sinners. And I personally feel compelled to state that man in today’s society justifies his cruel actions by measuring the level of authority he possesses over others and ultimately giving him the right to eradicate life. larly, in Findley’s novel all that Yaweh saw was “pride and lechery; envy and anger; covetousness; gluttony and sloth are, everywhere, all that One sees; the whole deadly canon of wickedness, depravity and horror is all that one beholds! We are assailed on all sides by an onslaught of evil, vice and shame that defies description!” And so he too decided to drown life, put simply he wiped out every living species on earth. Before I end this, and we all walk out this door I would like to leave you with one final thought, whether it be a nuclear war or the Flood it is no longer the destruction of individuals, but genocide on a massive scale, involving every species on the planet. And so what do we make of such a hierarchal structure is it really providing us with order or is it not creating more chaos.
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