Ray Bradbury - The Man | Audiobook
10I'm reading Ray Bradbury's story "The Man" to the music Jonathan Morali - Life is Strange OST (official soundtrack of the game Life is Strange) in the style of the MDS radio show (Model for assembly).
On the planet to which the earth's rocket arrived, an event occurred that the inhabitants had been waiting for for many centuries; the messiah came to them, so the arrival of the rocket faded into the background. The earthly captain does not want to believe what happened.
Ray Bradbury's short story "The Man" raises important philosophical and moral questions about faith, quest, and the meaning of life. The main character, the captain of a spaceship, symbolizes a person seeking truth and the meaning of existence. His journey through the planets, where he is repeatedly confronted with the presence of God, but cannot meet him personally, reflects man's eternal search for the divine and the impossibility of fully comprehending the mystery. This story assumes the infinity of knowledge and that even the deepest searches cannot lead to a complete understanding of everything that exists, i.e. In this way, the author wanted to emphasize his commitment to the idea of the unknowability of our world.
The moral aspect of the story concerns the choice between faith and quest. The team members who remain on the planets, accept God as a given and find their place there, they symbolize those who choose faith and stability. The captain, continuing his wanderings, personifies the eternal search for truth and meaning, despite risk and uncertainty. This choice between faith and search is a metaphor for each person's life path, where it is important to find a balance between accepting the existing order of things and striving to learn something new.
What would you choose, dear friends? Faith and stability? Or - search and uncertainty?
Text: Ray Bradbury
Reader: Eugene Gubanov aka Kivlov
Music: Jonathan Morali - Life is Strange OST
Graphics: Man Hand Reaches For The Sun Background from the website videezy.com
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