On the eve of April 15, 1912, the side of the RMS Titanic swept over an iceberg which caused significant damage and led to the sinking of this seemingly indestructible ship. This highly touted ship was equipped with everything from a newspaper revealing the latest gossip to a heated swimming pool and two hair salons. The architects considered every possible luxury for this grandiose ship, but somehow ignored the need to include enough rowing boats in the event of a shipwreck. Men spent years building this masterpiece, finding ways to prevent the forces of nature from affecting the ship. They tried to make it too big for seasickness and too strong for outside forces. Man versus Nature, the ultimate rivalry. However, this rivalry is always one-sided; nature always proves its preeminence. Some of the greedier men escaped on rowboats that rowed to safety, while some of the kinder men were not so lucky. The arbitrary separation of passengers on a rowboat from those left on the boat to drown continues to intrigue and influence today's writers such as Kate Chopin and Stephen Crane. They look at the different results of the people on board the Titanic to formulate their own position on the influence of nature and water. Although the oilman's and Edna's lives end at sea, Chopin romantically illustrates the sea as a maternal being through its lasting influence on Edna as she struggles to contemplate her destiny while Crane describes that even in the tanker's determined state to survive, nature remains unrivaled. and indifferent. Chopin uses Edna's growing admiration for water and his behavior to illustrate his romantic aspects where he tends to help Edna through her process of finding a life of harmony. Originally, Edna's life lacks harmony... middle of paper ... and it can act differently on a single individual. Size is not an advantage since the immense Titanic surrendered to the powers of the sea while the small boats which served as refuge for the survivors remained afloat in the same sea. However, it is not the large size that seems to be the problem, but rather the idea that the bigger the size, the bigger the arrogance. As a man named Dave Barry said, “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. Professionals demonstrated this arrogance by building something incredibly ostentatious, but this arrogance soon became man's greatest flaw in thinking he could outlast nature. A man like Noah, who built the Ark, did so on the basis of logic and reason, without an enlarged ego allowing him to ignore the cost of man's greatest fault..