Reading Report

Set in the early 19th century, M.S Found in a Bottle is a bizarre sea adventure that begins in Java, in the greater sundae islands, and moves southeast into the south Pacific to the west coast of Antarctica. It's full of glaciers and continental ice, and it's near the earth's southern magnetic pole. Here, the narrator recounts his adventures at sea: after a sudden hurricane, the merchant ship in which the hero is riding sinks into the sea, and I is magically freed and landed on a strange and treacherous ship. The ship was steered south by a group of unapproachable mystics. Gradually, the narrator discovers that the mysterious giant ship is in a swift current, which is filled with huge hailstones. These hailstones form a barrier in the turbulent water, which spirals straight up to the sky like walls. And the ship is like rushing into a loud waterfall. It went straight down and disappeared. Despite the terror, curiosity prevailed and overcame the fear. He was sure that he was on his way to some exciting unknown place that would reveal a secret that had never been discovered. The wind was still blowing aft. Because the sails are high. From time to time, the ship will be thrown into the sea, and the reader's heart will be uneasy with the waves. Now the ice on the right cracked, now the ice on the left cracked, and the reader felt dizzy. It was as if he were spinning around that huge concentric circle, or around a huge amphitheater. The walls of the theatre, however, were shrouded in darkness. And high above sight's reach. Concentric circles quickly shrink before the narrator has time to contemplate his own fate. Plummeting into the vortex. No struggle. The sea and the wind roared and roared with thunder, and the ship trembled. Finally carrying the protagonist together "sink" in a huge whirlpool in the South Pole. The story comes to a sudden end, reminiscent of the "hollow earth" hypothesis revealed in 19th century science fiction and Verne's vision of the earth's interior. Also let a person experience the gothic scene in the sea novel -- - drive straight to the bottom of the whirlpool horror effect. In addition to mapping SIMS's theory, the manuscript in a bottle deals with two other themes: the legend of Dutch sailors on ghost ships and the theory of transcendental discovery and its implications. Legend has it that Dutch sailors were sentenced to sail at sea until the day of god's last judgment, or that they haunted the cape of good hope during storms and were regarded by seamen as bad omen. As for the possibility of transcendental discovery, we can feel in the overall context of the development of the story that POE seems to take this point more seriously and believe in transcendental existence. The narrator encounters his own ship, and is thrown into a ghost ship in the middle of nowhere, recording his experiences with the paper and pen of the ghost ship captain, as if everything is arranged in advance. It is POE's narrative style and his stories that make readers feel the inexplicable fear. The narrator is a little stunned at the sense of shipwreck. He looked about him giddily, and now he knew that the ship was in a rolling wave. To his horror, the boat had been swept up in a terrible whirlpool, which swallowed up the whole ship. Except for the narrator and an old Swedish man, everyone on the deck was swept into the sea. The captain and his officers must have died in their sleep. There was no help because the cabins were full of water. Two survivors could not get the ship out of danger. And, with the thought that the ship was broken and could sink at any moment, they believed it. The wave that followed was sure to kill them. Sure enough. They encountered another whirlpool and were sunk by another ship. When the Swedish old man found the horrible scene and exclaimed. The narrator, too, has long seen a spectacle unfold along the edge of the great pit into which they have fallen. Readers read here, as personally, with empathy, their blood seems to coagulate. Not far above them, on the steep edge of a crevice, was a ship of about four thousand tonnage spinning. It stood erect on the crest of a wave more than a hundred times larger than the hull of the ship, which was in the midst of supernatural waves and ungovernable hurricanes. Keep the sails open. It was frightening to sail downwind. When they first found it, they could only see the bow of the ship, for the waves were lifting it slowly out of the ghastly whirlpool. Even scarier. It remained for a moment on the dizzy crest of the waves. As if lost in the grandeur of their high places, and then swinging down and crashing into their boats. You can see that these are all factors of the gothic tradition. Although the narrative of the novel reflects the details of life, as well as the narrative plot with magic and fantasy, it does not lose the sense of reality of the narrative. His description of the fine gothic environment and atmosphere, and his grasp of the contingency in the narrative plot, all flow out the unique aesthetic appeal of the grotesque terrorist factor. POE then pushed the story to another climax. He used his scientific mind and imagination to create some fantastic adventures for the readers. In the manuscript in a bottle, the narrator is cast by inertia into the ghost ship he sees, and the supernatural power shown in the text is enough to make the reader scared and shocked. The narrator is reminded of an eccentric maxim of a weather-beaten old Dutch navigator: "it is true that a ship in the sea will swell like a sailor's body." On the ship, the narrator discovers that the ship and everything on it exude an ancient air. Sailors moved about quietly, like ghosts buried for thousands of years. There was a worried look in his eyes. Whenever the narrator meets them, there is always a strange feeling, inexplicable. These scenes and things, which readers have never seen before in their experience, give readers a sense of mystery and make them feel an instinctive fear of the unknown.