Analysis of Ms Found in the bottle

Analysis of MS found in the Bottle

“MS. Found in a Bottle” (Շշի մեջ գտնված նամակը) is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his own disastrous death while his ship drives to the South, he writes an "MS.", or manuscript telling of his adventures which he casts into the sea. Some critics believe the story was meant as a satire of typical sea tales.

As noted earlier, first-person narration, chosen by the author, creates the access to the narrator’s mind and feelings, which allows the story to appeal directly to the reader’s emotions and to produce a stronger effect of horror and terror.  
The climax occurs when a whirlpool attacks the gigantic black ship in the Antarctic region. The image of the whirlpool and its power marks the South Pole as a threatening region beyond human rationality and knowledge. 

Before starting the voyage, the narrator was a skeptic who believed that seemingly paranormal events had a logical explanation when analyzed with the principles of science. His voyage aboard the doomed ship with the ghostly crew convinces him that he was wrong. The central theme is that science cannot explain everything; mysterious and chimerical events do occur. Other themes include terror, the power of nature, man's inability to control his destiny, and man's compulsion to document and report strange phenomena.

Metaphors (for example: a gigantic amphitheater; a black sweltering desert of ebony) and similes (for example: looking like the walls of the universe; cable parted like pack-thread) used by Poe make the language of the story extremely rich and attractive; they also strengthen the effect of terror.

Another stylistic device that I would like to highlight is anaphora, i. e. the repetition of a word or phrase in succeeding groups of words. For example:

Their knees trembled with infirmity; their shoulders were bent double with decrepitude; their shriveled skins rattled in the wind; their voices were low, tremulous, and broken; their eyes glistened with the rheum of years; and their gray hairs streamed terribly in the tempest.

While translating the main challenge was the translation of words related to ships and navigation, like beam (նավահեծան), hull (մարմին), mizzen-mast (բիզան-կայմ), spar (ողնափայտ, գերան), topgallant (կայմաձող), yawl (յալ), etc.