Allegory of A Descent into the Maelstrom
Allegory of A Descent into the Maelstrom
The story of A Descent into the Maelstrom that is written by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about an unnamed Norwegian fisherman who survives a shipwreck and a whirlpool and how he realises the mystery of the maelstrom that he states “The larger the bodies, the more rapid their descent”. Story contains some specific abstract principles, which are the existence of romanticism, dynamics of Hegal’s Absolute Spirit and the notion of God and Christian. Those principles are used as an allegory for turbulent of the lifetime in the short story of A Descent into the Maelstrom.
Firstly, the romantic existence is seen throughout the story that can be referred to the romanticist paintings of Casper Friedrick David. As it is shown in David’s paintings, there is an appearance of mystery and awesome creature of the nature. This can be seen in the description of the maelstrom and how the narrator realises the inscrutability of the nature. As a German romantic landscape painter, David also uses allegoric contemplation figures of the nature in his works. There is an emotional response to the natural world in David’s such paintings that can be example of the scene where the old man calms down at the climax of the maelstrom and thinks how magnificent that would be to die such a way and wait for his exploration in the depth of the maelstrom even if that action will cost his life. So we can see that there’s also an emotional response to the wilderness of the nature like the romantic paintings of Casper Friedrick David.
Secondly, the story of A Descent into the Maelstrom symbolically contains the dynamics of Hegel’s Absolute Spirit. For Hegel, history plays an important role on the human spirit. He believes that the history is the development and change that shapes the human experience and ultimate reality is found in human experience. For Hegel “ history is humanity’s progress from lesser to greater freedom” (193). In the story,
The story of A Descent into the Maelstrom that is written by Edgar Allan Poe is a story about an unnamed Norwegian fisherman who survives a shipwreck and a whirlpool and how he realises the mystery of the maelstrom that he states “The larger the bodies, the more rapid their descent”. Story contains some specific abstract principles, which are the existence of romanticism, dynamics of Hegal’s Absolute Spirit and the notion of God and Christian. Those principles are used as an allegory for turbulent of the lifetime in the short story of A Descent into the Maelstrom.
Firstly, the romantic existence is seen throughout the story that can be referred to the romanticist paintings of Casper Friedrick David. As it is shown in David’s paintings, there is an appearance of mystery and awesome creature of the nature. This can be seen in the description of the maelstrom and how the narrator realises the inscrutability of the nature. As a German romantic landscape painter, David also uses allegoric contemplation figures of the nature in his works. There is an emotional response to the natural world in David’s such paintings that can be example of the scene where the old man calms down at the climax of the maelstrom and thinks how magnificent that would be to die such a way and wait for his exploration in the depth of the maelstrom even if that action will cost his life. So we can see that there’s also an emotional response to the wilderness of the nature like the romantic paintings of Casper Friedrick David.
Secondly, the story of A Descent into the Maelstrom symbolically contains the dynamics of Hegel’s Absolute Spirit. For Hegel, history plays an important role on the human spirit. He believes that the history is the development and change that shapes the human experience and ultimate reality is found in human experience. For Hegel “ history is humanity’s progress from lesser to greater freedom” (193). In the story,