The mute Zann is a musician with the city’s orchestra with a habit of playing eerily unfamiliar music on viol alone at night. Zann is an older German man living in the nearly deserted apartment building in which the young narrator takes up residence. He boards the ship after walking across moonbeams where a mystical bearded man takes him on a long and distant journey to strange and bizarre worlds. Basil Elton (The White Ship)Įlton is a third-generation lighthouse keeper who relates the tale of a strange white ship that arrives from the south when the moon is full, gliding silently on the waves. Having failed to learn anything from Mary Shelley’s landmark novel, this modern day Frankenstein’s plan to test his theories does not proceed without incident. West is obsessed with the idea that death is misunderstood as the end of mortality, convinced that it is merely a dormant state of retardation of essential functions of the body which can potentially be re-animated. Herbert West is a brilliant, but disturbed man whom the narrator met when both were med students in college. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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