The Boat: The Pursuit of Self- Fulfilment

In the short story "Boat" written by Canadian author Alistair McLeod, the main story focuses on the concepts of self-fulfillment and the factors that influence the achievement of the goal. The foundation of this story is the limit of the family's pursuit of self-realization among individuals and opportunities to prevent them from achieving this goal. The hero, the son are confronted with internal conflict when choosing what the desire of his life actually becomes. The two highly influential people who influenced his decision included a very strong mother and his father in her beliefs.

Through the script, the pursuit of dreams plays an important role in the self-realization of the character. But the story of this drama focuses on that male character and their dreams only; Wilson did not investigate the idea of ​​her female character in detail. When he argued the dream of a male character thoroughly, his dream of a female character is still uncontrollable. In addition, a woman named Rothmaxon is her protagonist, and other female characters exist only in names mentioned by other characters.

In the short story "Boat" written by Canadian author Alistair McLeod, the main story focuses on the concepts of self-fulfillment and the factors that influence the achievement of the goal. The foundation of this story is the limit of the family's pursuit of self-realization among individuals and opportunities to prevent them from achieving this goal. The hero, the son are confronted with internal conflict when choosing what the desire of his life actually becomes. - According to the central rationale, the relationship between consciousness and self has the same structure as consciousness and the world. Therefore, the self and the world are linked so as to be "two objectives of absolute, non-personal consciousness" (ibid., 57). As a human experience philosophy 7, the description of the relationship between self and the world seems to ignore too many aspects of our practical experience to provide a theory that can be satisfied.