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Originally Posted by Bass-mastaa
I'm slightly confused on the meaning of the glass ?
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I'm basically trying to relate to Jack's viewpoint by using something so unlikely to be 'magical', if you will..something as seemingly ordinary as glass.
This is because Jack wont allow himself to buy the idea that an 'island' can be a place where miracles happen. He think it's silly that an island can have such a standing in the world, as Locke suggests.
Likewise..it seems ridiculous to think that a piece of glass could be so miraculous doesn't it? So this is basically the dilemna Jack is fighting against..he's struggling to rid himself of his commonly held beliefs and accept that there could lie possibilities outside of the sphere of his own knowledge.
I can actually see where Jack is coming from..afterall, it is an island..just like a piece of glass is a piece of glass. Except..Jack has experienced the wonders of the island..he knows what the island can do, he knows that the island is special. So he's fighting against what he knows to be true and denying it.
How many of us have fought against seeming 'miracles' in favour of our commonly held beliefs? We all find comfort in things which are familiar..safer to us. Right now I imagine that the island scares Jack because it's challenging the very foundations of the man.
There is no bedrock in science because it's laws can be challenged. Faith, on the otherhand is a far less closed book.
(imho)