Definition of
the word: “Sea”.
- Oxford Dictionaries.
For the research task I will explore my initial
thoughts on the word I had chosen from random and discuss the meanings behind
it I personally find interesting. The sea holds many mysteries that we have yet
to discover as it feels like another world when it comes to explore it. We
don’t know what is really down there in the deep and we always assume that
there are many unknown/unidentified sea creatures lurking beneath, and the
thought of being in the dark in the abyss, or out in the middle of the ocean
being isolated from civilization can instill fear and loneliness, however the
beauty of exploration and the discoveries of new things in our ocean world of
the sea can be fascinating. The sea itself can be portrayed in several ways and
one is the feeling of loneliness, where being out in the middle of nowhere can
instill panic, lost, fear and insecurity, especially in Movies, where the story
takes place in the middle of the ocean. “Finding Nemo” (2003) have a few
scenes where it depicts the vastness of the ocean and the feeling of being
alone in unknown in the abyss.
Characters
Dory and Marlin finds a “light bulb” in the deep abyss of the ocean, Finding Nemo, 2003.
In videogames however, the sea is sometimes depicted
as the beauty of exploration, and the discoveries of many different things,
such as new islands and fantastical creatures you encounter. The videogame, “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind
Waker HD” (2013), uses the sea as the basis to pave way the theme of
exploration and to visualize the grand scale of how vast the sea is. There is
no underwater exploration in the game, but the scale of depiction where you are
out in the middle of nowhere in the ocean on your tiny boat shows how it can be
nerve-racking to be all alone (in terms of scale), despite how beautiful the
ocean is filled with many wonders.
The Great Sea, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD,
2013. Original/Initial release date – 2003.
The sea being
portrayed in the game as an empty space of nothingness.
The sea, while it can be very fascinating, yet scary
at the same time, the amount of different species that lives underneath the
ocean is astounding. The sea houses thousands of different types of fish, algae
and plants, as well as otherworldly looking creatures that we may have never
seen before, or that looks alien to our eye, can be found anywhere in the
ocean. Most of the species migrates from one area to another, for example, The
Mediterranean Sea holds thousands, and yet have an influx of new species every
year that had migrated from the outside. Outside of the common species we are
all aware of, we don’t know all that lurks deeper down in the ocean, most
creatures we encounter in the deep are often otherworldly looking, and it feels
like another world. Combining the aspects of how vast the sea is, how scary it
is to be alone in the middle of nowhere fill with alien like creatures deep
beneath our feet can make the ocean feel otherworldly, yet fascinating at the
same time.
Bibliography
Finding Nemo (Just keep swimming scene), 2007 [Online] [Accessed: 15th
Feb 2015] Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxB_TemN1pc
Oxford Dictionaries Language Matters, 2015 [Online] [Accessed: 15th
Feb 2015] Available from: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sea
Wood. L (2002) Sea Fishes and Invertebrates of The
Mediterranean Sea, The Mediterranean, New Holland Publishers (UK), London
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