The Lee Shore
The Lee Shore
Chapter 23 of Moby Dick
This chapter is a stoneless grave of Bulkington; this is sort of Herman Melville’s way of telling us that he killed off Bulkington. Bulkington fell off the edge of the boat on one stormy night. His shipmates tried, but failed, to save him and he disappeared in the abyss of the storms locked seas. The ocean is his stoneless grave meaning he died in the ocean, he was never found, and given a proper burial so the ocean is his grave and the ocean is filled with water not dirt and rocks.
Deep memories yield no epitaphs; deep memories provide no insight on to what the people are personally. Reading an epitaph you only learn meaningless information, you don’t learn about their character and the people that they are.
Bear thee grimly, demigod; this area is sort of talking about how it is honorable to die by drowning in the water. Ishmael talks about how Bulkington’s death is more honorable than dieing by fading in to the back ground. Ishmael feels that Bulkington will now transform him into a demigod, due to his death at sea.
The port would fain give succor; the port gives a false sense of safety, on a boat the lee side is the side facing the wind, the lee side of land is the port side.
The ships direst jeopardy; wind from the sea will blow the ships, going into port and in port around, trying to blow the ships on to the rocks.
Most of the ideas I come across in the reading, I do not agree with. I do not agree with the idea that if you fall off the edge of a boat and drown you rise to a semi god like status. The way he seemed to be so in awe of Bulkington’s death was almost disrespectful. His idea of men or in this case Bulkington turning in to a demigod is ridiculous in my opinion, death is just death. You cannot die and then become immortal, that is a contradictory statement. This idea of death and immortality reminds me of the idea of heaven from a child’s point of view. Children, in most cases, think of heaven as this
Chapter 23 of Moby Dick
This chapter is a stoneless grave of Bulkington; this is sort of Herman Melville’s way of telling us that he killed off Bulkington. Bulkington fell off the edge of the boat on one stormy night. His shipmates tried, but failed, to save him and he disappeared in the abyss of the storms locked seas. The ocean is his stoneless grave meaning he died in the ocean, he was never found, and given a proper burial so the ocean is his grave and the ocean is filled with water not dirt and rocks.
Deep memories yield no epitaphs; deep memories provide no insight on to what the people are personally. Reading an epitaph you only learn meaningless information, you don’t learn about their character and the people that they are.
Bear thee grimly, demigod; this area is sort of talking about how it is honorable to die by drowning in the water. Ishmael talks about how Bulkington’s death is more honorable than dieing by fading in to the back ground. Ishmael feels that Bulkington will now transform him into a demigod, due to his death at sea.
The port would fain give succor; the port gives a false sense of safety, on a boat the lee side is the side facing the wind, the lee side of land is the port side.
The ships direst jeopardy; wind from the sea will blow the ships, going into port and in port around, trying to blow the ships on to the rocks.
Most of the ideas I come across in the reading, I do not agree with. I do not agree with the idea that if you fall off the edge of a boat and drown you rise to a semi god like status. The way he seemed to be so in awe of Bulkington’s death was almost disrespectful. His idea of men or in this case Bulkington turning in to a demigod is ridiculous in my opinion, death is just death. You cannot die and then become immortal, that is a contradictory statement. This idea of death and immortality reminds me of the idea of heaven from a child’s point of view. Children, in most cases, think of heaven as this