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The epilogue depicts a man striking fire out of the rock with a steel instrument, while other wanderers follow him mechanically. The man may be a symbol of the novelist or the hero against the Judge's war.
My assumption was that the description shows the early stages of the coal and oil rush in the west. I saw the degradation of man in Blood Meridian's plot as a single rotation of a grand cycle of death, destruction, and exploitation. The epilogue points toward the next great rape of the earth.
Jan 19, 2017 · Users discuss the meaning and purpose of the epilogue in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, which describes a man making fire with a mysterious tool. Some suggest it represents the end of the wild west, the spread of electricity, or nuclear weapons.
- More than likely the tool the man was using was a post hole digger. I'm speculating but I've used one and I can't think of what else it could be. H...
- Rereading Blood Meridian after about a dozen years and this is something I just thought about the Epilogue: Could the author have meant simply to...
- I think striking fire from the earth is a reference to nuclear weapons, uranium. McCarthy describes in detail how gun power was made from, things...
What did the Epilogue of Blood Meridian mean? What was happening in it, and why? Let's analyze the passage sentence by sentence to get an understanding. #BloodMeridian #CormacMcCarthy My...
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Mar 28, 2013 · the epilogue of Blood Meridian might be as simple as establishing that McCarthy is among the rather small number who have seen it. Unfortunately, however, Dia’s record of visitors to the site before 1986 is both incomplete and inaccessible. Ultimately, establishing whether McCarthy has seen the installation may depend on asking the author ...
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre. [1] [2] McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House .
Chapter Summary for Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, epilogue summary. Find a summary of this and each chapter of Blood Meridian!
