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The Rain Horse Analysis

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How do the authors of The Open Boat (1898) and The Rain Horse (1975) use language to vividly convey the conflict between man and nature? Stephen Crane and Ted Hughes vividly convey the conflict between man and nature in a many different ways. From their violent portrayal of nature through pathetic fallacy to their use of false hope and determinism, both authors express the idea that despite our greatest efforts, nature will always win the ‘battle’, being without a doubt stronger and superior. Both authors also substantiate the belief that men tend to have emotional reactions to things they cannot control, whether it be by employing the use of repetition to express our frustration towards the concept of fate or by gradually transforming a …show more content…

In “The Open Boat”, although the men possessed oars and used their knowledge to control the dinghy, nature still had supremacy over it. “The little boat, lifted by each towering sea and splashed viciously by the crests”, was simply “a wee thing wallowing… at the mercy of five oceans”. In addition to the dangers of being completely exposed to nature, the men also have to face the aggressive movement of the waves. They represent nature’s lack of concern towards them and humans in general. Even though the four men were both physically and mentally exhausted, the waves were still “most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall”. By naming the story “The Open Boat”, Crane extends this idea even further, by showing how the men were metaphorically ‘open’ to the torment and pain of the unanticipated turns of fate that are inevitable in …show more content…

The brutal nature seems to ignore the fact that the man comes from the city (and is not used to the natural environment) and is wearing a suit and smart shoes. In fact, these human-made items seem to disturb and distract him during said ‘conflict’ with nature, since he constantly expresses “little anxieties” about them. The horse hunts the man down, watches him and attacks him, with lack of concern towards the “outcast”. By expressing the indifference of nature towards men, both Stephen Crane and Ted Hughes show that nature does not judge humans based on their attitudes, social status or appearance, and all of us are equally inferior to

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