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Marine Workers

Victor Hugo

Cevvela
Literature

Marine Workers

Victor Hugo · İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları · 1866

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Summary

The epic, supernatural-tinged struggle for survival waged by Gilliatt, an outcast and lonely fisherman, as he battles nature—the ocean and a giant octopus—in an effort to salvage the engine of a ship stranded on the rocks so he can be reunited with the woman he loves.

Cevvela Comment

Hugo transforms humanity’s wild and hopeless struggle against nature into an epic. Gilliatt is the embodiment of the people of Cevvela—who “have withered away because no one believed in them”—resisting with every fiber of their being. The raw, unrefined will within man stands alone against the ruthlessness of the ocean. It tells how reason and labor can become a miracle in the face of nature’s power. You come to realize just how laughable the so-called “challenges of modern life” are in the face of a single person’s stubborn existence in the middle of the ocean. The person who never gives up strikes fear even into the storm itself.

Quotes from Cevvela

“İnsanın içindeki azim, okyanusun derinliklerinden daha ürkütücüdür.”
“Kader, cesurların önünde eğilmezse kırılır.”
“Doğa insanı ezer ama insan, o eziklikle bile doğaya meydan okuyan tek yaratıktır.”
“Umut, en karanlık kayalıklarda bile filizlenebilen bir inattır.”
“Yalnızlık, zayıfları çıldırtır, güçlüleri ise birer titana dönüştürür.”

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  1. After finishing, which line or scene stayed with you — and why?

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