What is “The Terror”? The terror is many things, all of them great — in size, scope, or both.The Terror is the name of a sailing vessel that set off from England in 1846, one of two sent on a mission to forge a trading route through the Northwest Passage, and two of two that vanished without explanation shortly thereafter.
But the terror is also the cold that stopped them; the mind-numbing temperatures that froze the ships in place and slowly melted the sailors’ minds.
Still yet the terror is some thing out in the cold.
It’s a beast, if you believe that, but whatever it is shows no remorse, spares no one, and moves swiftly, picking off the sailors before the temperature can claim them.Symbolically-minded viewers may wonder if the terror, in all its forms, is really only the cold.
Are the ship and the beast representative of
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