Chapter 5: Shipwreck (Кораблекрушение)

Concept: SURVIVAL

1. Cambridge dictionary       

Survival - the fact of continuing to live or exist, especially after a difficult or dangerous situation.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-russian/survival

2. Collins dictionary

If you refer to the survival of something or someone, you mean that they manage to continue or exist in spite of difficult circumstances.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/search/?dictCode=english&q=survival

3. Wikipedia

Survival is the act of surviving; to stay living.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival

Компонентно-дефиниционный анализ языковой единицы:

- Counting to live

- Existence

- Difficult situation

- Danger

- Difficult circumstances

- The act of surviving

- To stay living

- Fear

SURVIVAL IN THE BOOK:

Examples: «The Medusa was a shipwreck, a news story and a painting; it was also a cause. Bonapartists attacked Monarchists. The behaviour of the frigate's captain illuminated a) the incompetence and corruption of the Royalist Navy; b) the general callousness of the ruling class towards those beneath them. Parallels with the ship of state running aground would have been both obvious and heavy-handed».

«What is this 'Father' doing? a) lamenting the dead man (his son? his chum?) on his lap; b) realizing they will never be rescued; c) reflecting that even if they are rescued it doesn't matter a damn because of the death he holds in his arms?».

«An extreme resource proved necessary to prolong their miserable existence. Some of those who had survived the night of the mutiny fell upon the corpses and hacked pieces from them, devouring the flesh on the instant. Most of the officers refused this meat; though one proposed that it should first be dried to make it more palatable».

«Once more, a terrible combat ensued, and blood washed over the fatal raft. When this third mutiny was finally suppressed, there remained no more than thirty on board, and the raft had risen yet again in the water. Barely a man lay without wounds, into which salt water constantly flowed, and piercing cries were heard».

Характеристики концепта SURVIVAL:

- Medusa

- Shipwreck

- Death

- Flesh

-  Miserable existence       

- Blood

- Cries

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