Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Ishmael Part 3
I liked this section in particular because of how it gets into the questioning nature and beginning of change in belief for both Ishmael and the pupil as he realizes. Ishamel has his own agenda and through the use of questioning the narrator is better able to analyze his own culture and accept new ideas Ishmael introduces to him. As it forms guidelines for the novel as a whole on a smaller micro scale helps the narrator clear grasp concepts and understand.
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Sections 2 and 3 both begin to question the very essence of human belief as Ishmael begins to discuss myth and creation and all these other things with his pupil. However, I think it's pretty clear from the very beginning that Ishmael has an agenda of his own. On page 4 in the ad that the pupil views it says must have an earnest desire to save the world. Ishmael himself even talks about the four pupils he had before that failed at what he wanted for them and that was to save the world.
ReplyDeleteI see this part and part 3 as jumping off points for him to open up the mind of his pupil to what he sees as the problem. He does have an agenda, but the agenda he has he was honest from the beginning. He wants to save the world. By talking about evolution, his own past, and the Nazi's he begins to try to clear his pupil's mind so that the pupil can begin to see the world the way he sees it. That mankind is going to fall and take down the rest of nature and animalkind with it.