Ms.
Found in a Bottle
The narrator, a self-professed man
of reason, has been travelling for a long time, and recently
started a voyage on a cargo ship to the Archipelago Islands. Soon the sea and
sky grow ominous. It gets very humid and the narrator senses a storm coming.
Suddenly one night the ship is pulled by a whirlpool and is wrecked. All of the
crew, apart from the narrator and his shipmate,
are swept overboard.
The two
spend days trying not to succumb to the whirlpool. As they struggle, they
encounter the biggest vessel they have ever seen, rising in front of them like
a wave. The ship crashes over them and the narrator is flung onto its deck. He
hides, stowing himself away in the hold. As the days pass, the narrator writes
down his thoughts, hoping to send them out to sea in a bottle someday. He
explains how the crew, which is strangely aged and foreign, doesn’t seem to
sense his presence at all. The ship reminds him of ships he has known, and has
something antique about it, just like its crew, but he can’t figure it out. He
observes the captain in his cabin, murmuring like the rest
of the crew in an unintelligible way, and fiddling with what looks like ancient
scientific instruments and charts.
Walls of
ice rise up around the ship, which is headed due south. The crew seem to be
excited, as if they heading for some huge discovery. The narrator is terrified
but his curiosity outweighs his terror. He keeps writing down his experiences,
but as he does, the ship starts to be pulled into the whirlpool and he
scribbles his last words as the ship is swallowed up.
Edgar Allan Poe and his Ms.Found in a Bottle
Born January
19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. American short-story writer, poet,
critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and horror initiated the
modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled
in American fiction.
"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short
story by American writer Edgar
Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in
a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while
his ship drives ever southward, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript,
telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the
story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.
Poe submitted "MS.
Found in a Bottle" as one of many entries to a writing contest offered by
the weekly Baltimore Saturday Visiter. Each of
the stories was well liked by the judges but they unanimously chose "MS.
Found in a Bottle" as the contest's winner, earning Poe a $50 prize. The
story was then published in the October 19, 1833, issue of theVisiter.
The
Analysis
“Allan
Poe and Symmes’ Theory of Earth”
Ø What
is “Symmes’ Theory of earth”?
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“I declare the earth
is hollow, and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentrick
spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16
degrees; I pledge my life in support of this truth, and am ready to explore
the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.”
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— John Cleves Symmes, Jr., Symmes' Circular No. 1
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One concept,
and potential bombshell of a game changer, has always stood out. It did so by
stealth. Hollow Earth just pretended to be another loony idea that. Some people
just seem to get a kick out of. It can only be true or false. There is no
middle ground, only hollow ground or solid ground.
The range of the implications of the
earth being hollow are important. Hugely, massively important. They go as far
as explaining dozens of anomalies that surround us. All freaking kinds of
parallel, alternative, weird and conspiratorial ideas. In a word: woowoo ideas.
Ideas which are becoming mainstream, and not that it matters what a majority of
any kind thinks or what opinions it holds. The masses are dark (doesn't) matter
in the larger scheme of things.
This first part about the Ultimate
Woowoo intends to synthesize as much as possible what one has to look at and
know about to get a basic idea. There is also an emphasis on visual evidence in
this introduction to the Hollow Earth.
Several authors have done a thorough
job at combing through the evidence. Just as an example, one writer and
researcher has a bibliography of some 50 arctic expedition books in his piece
of 450 pages, and he gives these most diverse and astounding anomalies a cold
and hard look. This author, Marshall B. Gardner, sent a copy of "A Journey
to the Earth's Interior, Or Have the Poles Really Been Discovered?" to the
US government in 1920 and challenged them to refute it. The Feds haven't gotten
around to it yet, and it was a few decades ago.
Ø Was
that related to “Ms.Found in a Bottle”?
Yes,
it was. Galileo Galilei, as we know, he found the shape of earth which is
round. In the 1818, John Cleves Symmes Jr stated that earth has two holes and
those are connected each other. Symmes Jr claimed the holes are whirlpools in
North and South Poles. Then, he asked marine of America to do an expedition for
proving his theory. He died in 1829 and his son built a monument for
remembering him. The monument looks like an earth with tho holes. In 1833,
Edgar Allan Poe published his writing “Ms.Found in a Bottle” which tells
readers about a man standing in a boat and going down into a hole. Tha man is
scared but his curious is bigger than that. Then the man fell down and the
story ended there.
We
can conclude, Allan Poe’s writing is a critique for Symmes Jr’s theory about
hollow earth that.
