The first sense feeling we can see in the passage is that Claire clearly feels isolated. She is sailing alone in the Atlantic which is a huge ocean, the second largest ocean in the world in fact. We can clearly see that this isolation leads to her feeling anxious. She always thinks that after every wave and crest or every gust of wind that some part of the ship, be it the hull or the mast, is damaged. She knows that the ship can not take so much damage and it seems as if she does not think about if the ship is damaged, she thinks about how badly it is damaged as she states that it was impossible for the ship to take such a beating.
We are told she enters a mental state of paralysis which may have been induced due to the fact the she is isolated and anxious. Being alone in such harsh conditions will surely harm a human mentally and physically.
She is also feeling angered and frustrated as she tells us she repeatedly fell out of her bunk until she tied herself in. The repetitive task will obviously create some annoyance in a person.
Later on, she just does not care about what happens to her. She tells us she wouldn’t care if parts broke loose. She has lost all interest in anything else due to the storm. She is either angered or just simply doesn’t care so these conditions may have brought across a lack of feeling.
We can also clearly see that she feels tired and longs to be out of the storm. She says “I allowed myself to become excited at the sight of a clear sky”. She looks forward to this but sadly the storm just hits back even worse and her emotional cycle of trauma and distress starts again.
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