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is a destructive element for man (insofar as man is defined by going where he is not wanted and does not belong). It is the place where man is not naturally adapted, and so is the only place in which man feels he can really live.

Man, as Stein has remarked, comes 'where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him'... the sea is the destructive element because it is not the element to which man is naturally adapted, and yet it is the only one in which he can live.

is a feminine, a living being, a mother Goddess in a way that implies reciprocal obligation and an ecological ethics.

On the positive side of the ledger, then, Santiago's gendering the sea as la mar underlies this novella's strong ecological ethic. To gender the sea as female or as a mother goddess implies reciprocal obligation. The man who approaches nature as his lover, wife, or mother, expecting 'great favours' and kindness, must also, as Whitman phrases it, 'mean tenderly' by her. The concept of the sea as a feminine, living being ought to serve, as Carolyn Merchant has pointed out on behalf of the earth, 'as a cultural constraint restricting the actions of human beings. One does not readily slay a mother, dig into her entrails . . . or mutilate her body . . . . As long as the earth [is] considered to be alive and sensitive, it could be considered a breach of human ethical behavior to carry out destructive acts against it' (3).

is a living (and almost personal) power, with a will and purpose of its own, always subtle, sometime sportive, sometimes malevolent, mocking, challenging and defying the human insects that dare to contend with its mighty mysterious forces.

There have been many gifted writers on the sea be fore Conrad both in poetry and in prose, and there will be many after him, but it is doubtful if to any man there has ever been given that wizard mastery of all the secrets of the sea together with the wondrous gift of imparting them to others, that belongs to the genius of Joseph Conrad. The sea is to most sailormen a living and almost personal power, with a will and purpose of its own, always subtle, sometime sportive, sometimes malevolent, mocking, challenging and defying the human insects that dare to contend with its mighty mysterious forces.

is a mysterious thing in that all the rivers run into it... and yet it is not full.

All the rivers run into the sea... yet the sea is not full. King Solomon

is a mythological creature endowed with life.

To Homer the sea is a a mythological creature endowed with life.

is a perfidious environment which can never be fully trusted, for even its playfulness is deadly... sooner or later it will test everyone who ventures upon it.

The sea is a perfidious environment which can never be fully trusted, for even its playfulness is deadly... sooner or later it will test everyone who venutres upon it.

is a place of dissolution and reconfiguration, the origin of all life as well as a place where the monstrous nature of the world cannot be ignored. Its vastness, lulling waves, and unseen depths all suggest a working of time beyond the human capacity to perceive it, almost as if it gives the human a glimpse at the workings of the cosmic.

For London, the sea is the place of dissolution and reconfiguration. It is the origin of all life as well as a place where the monstrous nature of the world cannot be ignored (much like the Yukon in his earlier work). The ocean's vast space, the lulling of the waves, and the unseen depths all suggest a working of time beyond the human capacity to perceive it. If there is a single candidate for a secular space where the human can glimpse the workings of the cosmic then surely the ocean has to be it.

is a place where the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker than anywhere else into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake. Joseph Conrad

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