Question

why is life compared to a boat?how do men over load thier boat of life?how does it affect thier nature in the long run? in three men in a boat

Answer 1

In the third chapter the narrator compares life to a boat to give an advice full of wisdom to the readers. 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.

 

Answer 2

In the story "three men on the boat" the author advises us that when we are travelling on a boat for leisure we need to keep it light and should not carry too much luggage with us so that we can enjoy the journey and our boating ride.In a similar manner, in real life also we need to enjoy the ride of life without the burden of expectations and sorrow.In life good and bad phases do come and go but we need to move on from one phase to another phase happily without allowing the sadness rule our life just like we move from one place to another in a boat ride.