SEA WOLF: Fear, Authority And Intellect
SEA WOLF: A psychological adventure of: Fear, Authority and Intellect
By Patrick McKenzie
This essay is about how Wolf Larsen, the powerful captain of the Sea Wolf, a seal hunting vessel, and how he used fear, authority and intellect to terrorize his crew and keeps them under his control. I will explain these topics in three separate paragraphs.
The first tells how he uses fear as a weapon to control his crew he makes them fearful of what might happen to them if they don’t listen to what he says. He doesn’t seem to find any meaning in his life except for his survival and uses anything at his disposal to confirm to his crew that he will stop at nothing and is brutal in his acts to demonstrate how little value he places on another’s …show more content…
He exploits every available loop hole, because even though he is a brute of a man, he is a great thinker and he studies philosophy and taught himself a variety of fields including mathematics, literature and also many poets. He considers himself without fault and will manipulate and bully people to better serve his needs.He analyzes life and graph it for his own for his own purpose as he did in the end of the book.
The great lion of a man, Lucifer himself succumbs to a brain tumor debilitating his body and slowly destroying his mind and will to live. The once great man was now dying as a vegetable and it didn’t seem fit for a way for a king to die.
The once master of many but leader of few in my eyes who thought of himself as a god would now succumb to a human disease. The once man of irons in which he held himself so high, was now crumbling but yet he was so inconsiderate. All the fear he had built up on his crew for them to stay was gone. Despite this his cruelty to his crew, they decided to keep him alive. He still tried to be in control of their lives but they were the ones keeping him alive and without them he died a lonely and sad
By Patrick McKenzie
This essay is about how Wolf Larsen, the powerful captain of the Sea Wolf, a seal hunting vessel, and how he used fear, authority and intellect to terrorize his crew and keeps them under his control. I will explain these topics in three separate paragraphs.
The first tells how he uses fear as a weapon to control his crew he makes them fearful of what might happen to them if they don’t listen to what he says. He doesn’t seem to find any meaning in his life except for his survival and uses anything at his disposal to confirm to his crew that he will stop at nothing and is brutal in his acts to demonstrate how little value he places on another’s …show more content…
He exploits every available loop hole, because even though he is a brute of a man, he is a great thinker and he studies philosophy and taught himself a variety of fields including mathematics, literature and also many poets. He considers himself without fault and will manipulate and bully people to better serve his needs.He analyzes life and graph it for his own for his own purpose as he did in the end of the book.
The great lion of a man, Lucifer himself succumbs to a brain tumor debilitating his body and slowly destroying his mind and will to live. The once great man was now dying as a vegetable and it didn’t seem fit for a way for a king to die.
The once master of many but leader of few in my eyes who thought of himself as a god would now succumb to a human disease. The once man of irons in which he held himself so high, was now crumbling but yet he was so inconsiderate. All the fear he had built up on his crew for them to stay was gone. Despite this his cruelty to his crew, they decided to keep him alive. He still tried to be in control of their lives but they were the ones keeping him alive and without them he died a lonely and sad