Genre
Fiction novel
Setting and Context
The novel is set on the ocean floor; the year 1998 from the Greek mythology perspective.
Narrator and Point of View
Second-person point of view
Tone and Mood
sad and pessimistic
Protagonist and Antagonist
Sirena is the protagonist of the story.
Major Conflict
The major conflict occurs when his crew members abandon Philoctetes after being bitten by the snake. The crew leaves him for dead, and that is very astonishing.
Climax
The climax is evident when Sirena finds Philoctetes in her lonely life, and they fall in love. Instead of the mermaid killing the man, she falls in love and decides to take of him.
Foreshadowing
The love between Sirena and Philoctetes foreshadows her passage to mortality.
Understatement
The assumptions that love and marriage are heavens are understated because Sirena and her lover find it hard to avoid violence because she struggles with the feelings of mania, covetousness and exploitation.
Allusions
The Trojan War is used to reference the end of the relationship between Sirena and Philoctetes.
Imagery
The song of lyre by the mermaids is imagery that depicts the sense of hearing to readers. Similarly, the imagery of smell manifests itself when Sirena says that she smells the ship before seeing it.
Paradox
The paradox of fate is rampant because Sirena gets company from the man who turns out to be her lover but for him to be taken away later to participate in the Trojan War.
Parallelism
The stories of Sirena and Philoctetes are parallel because each ends up living a lonely life after that.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The Trojan War is personified as having the ability to break the love of two people who thought they were destined to live as a couple.
