Day 23 阅读范围 (Part 2: Chapter 22 & Chapter 23)
问题
1. Why is Arronax horrified by Nemo’s act of vengeance?
2. What’s the main idea of the last chapter?
翻译
1. I reached the platform, on which I could with difficulty support myself against the shock of the waves. The sky was threatening, but as land was in those thick brown shadows we must fly.
2. The means of communication between the north of Norway and the south are rare, and I am therefore obliged to wait for the steamboat running monthly from Cape North.
要求:
1.尽量回答上面问题
2.思考:
Perhaps the most traumatic part of Arronax’s experience here is not the horror of watching people be murdered before his eyes, but the subsiding of this climactic moment back into the mundane, endless limbo that he has been trapped in for so long already. Arronax appears to indeed be in a kind of hell, although the other captives have miraculously managed to maintain hope.
Nemo’s final moments aboard the submarine become surreal, almost like a dream sequence. After spending so long trapped in a confined space and endless monotony, the idea of leaving must seem unbelievable. Meanwhile, Arronax’s trauma leads him to conceptualize Nemo as a sea monster, a framing that Nemo himself might actually approve of.
