“By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah’s ark.” (38).
Noah’s ark is the ship from stories in the Bible that was built large enough to hold two of every animal on Earth for 40 days and nights. Dickens illustrates the prison ship as a wicked Noah’s ark because of its immense size. Another comparison to something from the Bible interests the religious readers who feel honored to have an important part of their religion mentioned in a famous piece of literature.
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the latter part seems like something of a stretch, Kim
ReplyDeleteNow, why did the ark need to be built to begin with? Could that have anything to do with GE?