... as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats." It is almost as if the oceans strength and unpredictability and the men stuck in the ship is a metaphor for the irrationality of life and the dissatisfaction of the only thing humanity will ever be sure of is the fact that one day everyone becomes a victim to death. Again, ... expressing a modern realistic alternative to what society deems acceptable and appropriate. We see similar patterns in displaying the ignorance and limitations of a romantic perspective in Henry James' "Turn of the S...

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