What message does the novel three men in a boat coney?
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The novel gives many philosophical messages to the readers. One of them is the narrator's wise and practical advice concerning packing for the voyage of life.
According to him, we the men and women load up our boats with too much of
useless lumber thinking it will make our voyage pleasurable and comfortable.
Men and women pile the poor little craft mast-high with fine clothes and big
houses; with useless servants, and a host of swell friends that do not care
twopence for them, and that they do not care even a bit for; with expensive
entertainments that nobody enjoys, with formalities and fashions, with pretence
and ostentation, and with oh, heaviest, maddest lumber of all! the dread of
what will my neighbour think, with luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that
bore, with empty show that, like the criminals iron crown of yore, makes to
bleed and swoon the aching head that wears it! The narrator advises men and
women to keep their boat of life light with only the things that are needed.
Then it will be easier to pull the boat and enjoy the voyage.
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