Day 18 阅读范围 (Part 2: Chapter 12 & Chapter 13)
问题
1. Nemo has been speaking less and less, and Arronax senses that Nemo has a “suppressed anger” within him. Why does Arronax believe that keeping the three men captive is having a terrible impact on Nemo?
2. Conseil suggests that Ned asks for Nemo’s permission to hunt the whales, and Ned immediately goes off to do so. Yet Nemo doesn’t grant it. Why doesn’t Nemo grant it?
翻译
1. Certainly the monotony on board must seem intolerable to the Canadian, accustomed as he was to a life of liberty and activity.
2. Others shaded with vivid calcareous reflections resembled a perfect town of marble. The more we neared the south the more these floating islands increased both in number and importance.
要求:
1.尽量回答上面问题
2.思考:
Further reading to help you develop your understanding of these two chapters:
Arronax’s observation that holding three people captive might be having a negative impact on Nemo is significant. By taking away the freedom of others, Nemo erodes his own humanity. While theoretically having more people on board the ship for companionship might be a positive thing, the reality is that Nemo is troubled by enacting exactly the kind of oppressive behavior that he claims to oppose.
On one level, Nemo’s reasoning that it is bad to kill anything unless there is a purpose to it seems legitimate, and an important facet of existing in harmony with the natural landscape. Yet it is also clear how Ned could view such a stance as arbitrary (particularly considering how many animals have already been hunted during the Nautilus’s journey thus far).
