The Tale of the Black Freighter is a comic book within the comic book Watchmen. It tells of a story about how a castaway tries to save his town. Though its setting is different from that Watchmen, the Tale of Black Freighter is analogous to the story of Watchmen in respect of the story line, the mission to prevent peril, and the theme of moral dilemma. Both stories start with a heart of loving and the determination to prevent deadly destruction but end up in the loss of many lives. The Tale of the Black Freighter (hereafter referred to as The Tale) starts with the attack from a black freighter on the sailor’s ship. This brutal battle kills everyone except the sailor, who fears that the black freighter is going to invade their town soon. Haunted by his fear, and to save his town and his loved ones, the sailor plans to go back to give the warning. He …show more content…
To start the journey of going back home and protecting the town and his loved ones, the sailor digs out the corpses of his dear crews, which he buries to let them rest in peace, to make his way back. The sailor shouldn’t use the corpses to keep himself afloat in the sea. He is well aware that the corpses will be destroyed during the journey. However, if the sailor doesn 't use the corpses, he cannot even start his journey. Starting from the decision to use the corpses as a raft, the sailor steps onto the road to the black freighter, which owns all the corrupted souls. Likewise, Adrian faces the same dilemma. Based on his own understanding, the only way to save the world from a nuclear war is to create a more serious situation to force the world to be united together instead of battling each other. To achieve his goal of saving the world, he sacrifices half of the New York citizens. In the end, though the whole world becomes untied, Adrian is struggling with his guilty conscience of immoral killing day and
The author shows the reader the sea just as the sailor does as death, but more than death
Huckleberry Finn - Moral Choices There were many heroes in the literature that has been read. Many have been courageous and showed their character through tough times. Through these tough times, they were forced to make important decisions and this is where you get the real idea of who deserves to be called a hero. The most influential though of all these was Huckleberry Finn. Through the innocence of childhood, he is able to break through the societal pressures that are brought on him and do right.
...He is still anchored to his past and transmits the message that one makes their own choices and should be satisfied with their lives. Moreover, the story shows that one should not be extremely rigid and refuse to change their beliefs and that people should be willing to adapt to new customs in order to prevent isolation. Lastly, reader is able to understand that sacrifice is an important part of life and that nothing can be achieved without it. Boats are often used as symbols to represent a journey through life, and like a captain of a boat which is setting sail, the narrator feels that his journey is only just beginning and realizes that everyone is in charge of their own life. Despite the wind that can sometimes blow feverishly and the waves that may slow the journey, the boat should not change its course and is ultimately responsible for completing its voyage.
In this story, Richard Adams' creates an interesting part of the story when eleven rabbits unite to form a group and flee from their warren, in hopes of avoiding a great tragedy. These rabbits leave their warren without knowledge of why they need to leave their homes. The one thing the rabbits have in common is their faith in Fiver's dreams and visions. Together these rabbits will have to put aside their differences in order to face the danger ahead of them.
Overall, both of these stories are wonderful. They really get you engaged as a reader to understand the concept of the story and find the moral meaning of why the story is being told. These stories really helped me understand why it is so important for me to search for my meaning because I will never know where I am going if I don’t suffer and understand the bad things in life before receiving any good things in life. I would recommend any and every body to experience both of these magnificent stories because they are both extremely powerful and joyful to comprehend.
Society establishes their own rules of morality, but would they be accepted in these days?
Commanders are given their positions because they have demonstrated their ability to execute sound judgment. Judgment is the key factor when committing to actions that could be either favorable or disastrous, or anything in between. Moral decision making, however, takes more than sound judgment when complex problems with undiscernible outcomes arise. When developing leaders to understand decision making in high-stress or combat situations, a thorough understanding of moral judgment is warranted. Case studies provide leaders with valuable tools to stimulate thinking and challenge subordinates. When evaluating the decision the commander of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has to make, understanding the difference between moral dilemmas and
Both stories deal with a young girl who, with the help of a little magic, is able to find her prince and live happily ever after. Needless to say on of these versions is much darker than the other, but the story sends an overall good message.
In conclusion, this essay analyzes the similarities and differences of the two stories written by Herman Melville, Billy Budd and Bartleby. The settings, characters, and endings in the two stories reveal very interesting comparisons and contrasts. The comparison and contrast also includes the interpretation of the symbolism that Melville used in his two stories. The characters, Billy and Bartleby, could even be considered autobiographical representatives of Herman Melville.
The black box is the central theme or idea in the story. It symbolizes at
A human being develops and grows throughout their life through many challenges and sometimes it takes an event in one’s life to change a person. In the novel “The Caine Mutiny” by Herman Wouk, is a novel about Willie Keith, a chubby and well educated son from an upper class family who joins the Navy. Willie goes into the Columbia University School of Journalism, which has been converted for the war effort. He is almost rejected because of his physical reasons of not being fit, but his Princeton background saves him from being rejected. As soon as he stepped in this navy life and went through a long journey with the navy crew , Willie became more independent, responsible and courageous.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Simon and Piggy are among a group of boys who become stranded on a deserted island. Left without any adults, the boys attempt to create an orderly society. However, as the novel progresses, the boys struggle to sustain civility. Slowly, Jack and his hunters begin to lose sight of being rescued and start to act more savagely, especially as fears about a beast on the island spread. As the conflict progresses, Jack and Ralph battle for power. The boys’ struggle with the physical obstacles of the island leads them to face a new unexpected challenge: human nature. One of the boys, Simon, soon discovers that the “beast” appears not to be something physical, but a flaw within all humans
In fact, the daily life of human beings is at the mercy of the uncontrollable waves of the sea; while, at the same time, the essential part of reality remains unknown to feeble, helpless humans. The human voyage into life is feeble, vulnerable, and uncontrollable. Since the crew on a dangerous sea without hope are depicted as "the babes of the sea", it can be inferred that we are likely to be ignorant strangers in the universe. In addition to the dangers we face, we also have to overcome the new challenges of the waves in the daily life. These waves are "most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall", requiring "a new leap, and a leap."
Morality is knowing the difference between right and wrong.The mind chooses what makes sense and what does not, not right and wrong.In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird,uses the setting to show how the characters behave and interact with each other. The setting in the story affects the characters she does this so she can show how people behaved in that period of time. She also shows multiple conflicts on top of each other but connects in the end.
They are forced to contend with the realization that their survival does not matter to nature. The correspondent comes to the realization, “When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples” (Crane 213). While the men may try to pin their trouble on the “mythicized deity,” that really does not serve them. When discussing this, Hilfer says, “The discomfiting thing about nature is that though we can address it, our messages can only come back stamped ‘return to sender’” (251). No matter how much the men in the boat try to make sense of what is happening to them, they cannot find the being or force behind