Transgressing Adversities-The Human Struggle for Survival: A Comparative Study of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind
Life brings in all manner of challenges. Things happen, and circumstances change. Life becomes a struggle for survival. The concept refers to the competition or battle for the resources needed to survive. It can refer to human society, or to organisms in nature. It is a state where one continues to live or exist especially in difficult conditions.
This paper entitled “Transgressing Adversities- The Human Struggle for Survival: A Comparative Study of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind” takes into account two different genres to highlight the theme of man’s struggle for survival and his gradual overcoming of life’s adversities through the brute strength of his will. While Martel’s novel, Life of Pi depicts how Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger ,Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind ,which is a 1939
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He is getting used to killing and comments on his mixed emotions: “You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a Dorado.” (Life of Pi 185) Pi realizes that he must rely on himself for survival: he cannot depend upon being rescued by another: this forces him to be resilient and resourceful. Especially after the tanker passes, Pi realizes that he cannot depend upon others. The whole range of emotions spreads through him. He must not dwell on the negatives: “I survived because I made a point of forgetting.” (191) “I even forgot the very notion of time.” (192). “Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out.” It was a hell beyond expression. “ I thank God it always passed.”