novel Solaris review

novel Solaris review

Introduction

This novel Solaris was written by Lem in 1961, it has been generally seen as a scientific fiction book. The novel has been adapted to film in 1972 and 2002. Solaris is orbiting two suns the red and blue  .This symbolize that there is no possibility of life on this planet.it is also having single sea that rises many debating questions. The book chapters, characters and themes are discussed. Scientific fiction shows that how sociologists are rejected in the modern society.

Kelvin is in his mechanical bed he sees Rheya, who was in a relationship with him before she died at nineteen, he thinks like he is dreaming. They kiss each other, and somehow Kelvin starts thinking he is not a dreamer (Lem20). He confirmed from her arm where he find a mark .This makes Kelvin feel guilt since he caused her girlfriend suicide after leaving her. Rheya is also confused how she come here. Despite the fact that Kelvin shaves and wants to leave her in the room she says shew can’t be away from him.

Kelvin tries to escape, but the super-powered dream ghost throws her to ground. He proceeds to give her sleeping pills in return the she laughs at this. Rheya brings about issues of pelvis a guy who Kelvin knew after her death. Kelvin now wants to kill this lady. He remembers the hands of snow had blood stains and thought this was blood from kelvins visitor. The two wants to get out and goes to launch rocket where he tricked her and locked her inside .This was after Kelvin had discovered Rheya had magic how she gets on her dress. To rescue her shew call Kris in a sound that is not a human. She is also shaking the door at superhuman power. While freaking out, he feels satisfied after launching the rocket into space

After rocket launch, her hand gets burned he goes to the cabin to look for ointment. Snow is sitting somewhere in the room but initially, Kelvin thinks this was Rheya. Snow speculates how Kelvin did to his visitor. He says that Gibarian got the first visitor(Lem13). Gibarian had locked them in the room they thought he was insane. They had to break the door to see their visitors’ .Snow go ahead and say that .They will come again and, this time, she will not be able to remember Kelvin sending her to space. Snow becomes sympathetic when Kelvin explains that Rheya killed herself when Kelvin left. According to snow, there can be worse visitors who can cause tragic and horrible stories. His suggestion was that some are violent thoughts of flesh and are fantasies. Kelvin blames the ocean for creating such visitors. This comes after snow says human beings look out into cosmos but are looking at themselves. Snow feels that this is beyond their knowledge, who knows why it does what it does?

Snow says these visitors began to come after the scientists bombarded the ocean with x-rays .they then wonders whether the ocean creates any of them but they are real.

They talk about killing the visitors since they believe they ate humans. Snow gives the little book Apocrypha to Kelvin(Lem25). They talked about Sartorius coping by trying to remain healthy, running away after destroying the station so that the people declare them mad. Kelvin still believes Rheya will be back. Finally, snow leaves and Kelvin begins to read this book.

The book has theories explaining about Solaris it is focusing on a pilot who survived after being thrown by another pilot to the ocean. The name of the pilot was Ander Berton this book goes into his response to the commission of inquiry.He says he saw a garden in the sea while flying around in a fog since the ocean was creating different inchoate forms. The garden broke apart he saw a child and its body moving. He thought that this is a mirage, and it is not a hallucination because he didn’t fell ill. The commission of inquiry is skeptical.

According to the Berton, the child was moved by something else. He is searching for Fechner but in vain he gets sick in the cabin. The committee says that he was not sober while he insists that he wants to describe the last thing he saw. He fails to say it .he wants to meet Dr.Messager, who believed in him. As the transcript comes to an end, there is the note from showing that Berton saw something from Fechner’s memories. According to the messenger, this ocean understood the Fechner brain(Lem167).Kelvin knows that ocean is a tricky colloid, and the Berton was a good observer. He remembers that he has tapes from Gibarian, and he has not listened to her hides them under the bed. Soon the door of his room get opened Rheya gets in like the monkeys paw and with little gore.

Kelvin has a nightmare while sleeping with Rheya she is concerned about him. They put a compress on his head this makes Kelvin wake up. Kelvin after being terrified about Rheya dress sneaks out of the room and lock the door.it is funny that Rheya like Hulk also gets out an. Rheya falls into his arms crying. He takes her back to room her hand is cut into bones but regenerates .She does not remember smashing through the door though Kelvin is upset is comforting her, He takes the sample of her blood.

Snow informs Kelvin that Sartorius wants a video conference with all three of them. Snow and Sartorius despite the fact that they have visitors they don’t want Kelvin to see them.   The blood after being examined does not exist at the sub-molecular level(Lem140).Snow and Sartorius have conference via video. Kelvin tells the results of the blood that visitors are copies superior to the original. A pseudo-scientific bubble arises this explain everything in scientific fiction. They concluded that the visitors could remember things that original were not able to because they are projections from their brains. These visitors also get bonkers in unanticipated situations and then forget. Sartorius visitors try to get on the screen this made him upset. The conference ends as and snow plans to meet Kelvin in personal later if he can

Monsters have fangs and claws and nasty galumphing critters exploding in space where no one can explode. In Solaris, these will not happen to anyone. Solaris does not galumph. As we get back to Kelvin is sleeping and wakes up from a dream .Rheya is worried since Kelvin wants her to leave but how? She affirms her love for him and even screams. In morning snow, gives him a note that he want Kelvin to go out to collect plasma from the planet they might be able to stabilize it t .Instead, Kelvin goes together with Rheya to the library to read about plasma and neurons instead of going to the planet(Lem145). He reads about the history of Solaris; he reads the story of Giese, who categorized the formation created by Solaris ocean.Giese was obsessed with monoids which Solaris ocean creates that mimic the things external to the sea.

Symmetries defy physics, and people think that they are computers and they are not. Schmoop knows nothing science knows nothing. Kelvin says one-time construction of ocean feels killing one hundred people. On earth, we have folks about falling nuclear bombs on it the scientist on it stated that they will not get threatened by this and will still stay Teheran if bomb comes it will kill them. Kelvin figures out some way to save Rheya from Sartorius plans to send the visitors away. After pretending he is now looking how he can make it invalid from reading physics books. Snows visits him he introduce him to Rheya for the first time .Shmoop believed that he would address her as his wife.

Snow concludes that Sartorius is out of bounce currently though he wants to carry out beaming x-ray modified by kelvins brainwave at the ocean, Kelvin takes it as an inappropriate action they will build an annihilator. Kelvin says that it will cause killing too many. Snow gets depressed and skeptical but shows Sartorius kelvin calculation. Snow leaves .They think snow was all concerned with her funny.

Gibarian finds Kelvin lying in the dark at the beginning of this chapter we don’t know whether this is the real Gibarian, a visitor or even dream? The message he gives to Kelvin is that Snow and Sartorius have come to find that Kelvin was tricking them concerning the probability 0of their visitors blowing up(Lem20). The voice is going down as Kelvin wakes this is the tape that he had hidden under a bed. Rheya is present as he wakes up. Know that the video is missing he fears to quarrel with Rheya and does not discuss missing tape. There is a change depicted in Rheya behavior. The Gibarian vision warned Kelvin to stay on guard this makes him walk to the station to look for weapons but in vain. There is classic lovers quarrel scene. Then Kelvin is sleeping .he discovered that Rheya has drunk liquid she again repeats to kill herself she died. This is Rheya is confused she is the non-human thing. Kelvin convinces her that he does not care for her non-human he forgets of the dead one who is somewhere else(Lem78).Kelvin is happy that the liquid oxygen did not kill her. At the end of this chapter he becomes convinced that he love Rheya .Rheya is represented as skeptical though she had listened to the tape, it says that the ocean can create, and ocean creates her. She wants to lose life Kelvin seems more or less convince Rheya he loves her.

Sartorius will start to work on the brain wave X-ray project. He wants to go, but Rheya is the problem. Kelvin tells they can leave the country where they can get a house and start a family. Kelvin is worried what snow might say during his chat with Rheya. Snow and Kelvin start a chat. Snows fingered out the idea of Kelvin leaving the station(Lem70). He also reminds him that there is another Rheya in the capsule in space. He suggests that they would be nowhere if Kelvin takes Rheya off the planet. Kelvin is less sleepy and worries that the ocean might detect the secret desire to throw away have. It will look like murder. He is upset if they record his     EEG and beam it to the ocean it detects secrets desire to kill Rheya.

Kelvin is unable to sleep because he was astonished by the experiment. He finally gets in deep sleep and wakes up and ignores the problem. The moral lesson that we should be getting good night rest more so on the foreign planet with ghosts. They went to laboratory Sartorius tells Kelvin to think about humans’ race glory, he strapped his brain sensors. He thought instead of his father, they, and father of solar studies and Giese.At the end of the experiment, it was surprising to Sartorius. They altogether wit Kelvin moves to cabin. While he was looking for Giese he was interrupted by Gravity’s Compendium a list of work on Solaris. From the ideas that ocean was lifeless, then it was living and can be contacted and eventually to the sense of despair and resignation in failure to figure out what is the wrong with that dam anyway. Ocean was less or more forgotten by the public(Lem50-68). From the pamphlet by Granstrom the human kind knows nothing, science is widely useless and we I’ll never contact another alien civilization reason being that we are too insular.

Kelvin muses that the new solar Phenom, Cena depicted that the ocean is living, very conscious and psychic invalidating a whole range of solar theories and making the entire range for others valid. According to science Muntins annual talks about Solaris science being religion based and mysticism he then gets pamphlet by Gibarian called why I am a Solaris it shows  Gibarian faith in contact .as the chapter comes to an end there is a summary of Kelvin doctorate it say that there was parallel between electrical discharges and emotions of human beings. Solaris has no difference from us.

X-rays beams with Kelvins brainwaves into the ocean, but not significant has happened .Kelvin get astonished because Sartorius is currently working on disruptor to zap the visitors. Despite the fact that he is pathetic with they cannot help her in any way(Lem67) .Kelvin is having bad dreams which make him think funk is as a result of the alien presence. In dreams, Kelvin is in prison in foreign bond, and then something is penetrating the body probably a woman .they later after being together dissolved to worms. He has a terrifying dream something is exploring him. Fifteen days after he had done the experiment he wakes up to find that he had disrupted the ocean it is throwing up large structures and behaving unexpectedly. Snow gets in, and they start a chat whereby Sartorius is trying to cure the immorality and make progress. Rheya is freaked out, and so Kelvin commands snow to leave.

Weeks pass, and they and Kelvin plan their life on the earth. They had a talk with someone and got out of bed and left .She says she doesn’t want to go back to earth .Kelvin after getting bitter drinks from his lover is informed by the snow that they are dead(Lem 100). Though Kelvin did not believe snow gave him a note saying that they wanted to be destroyed. They had to muck up her neutrinos. Meanwhile, Snow pointed out that visitors don’t come back from the day the ocean was disturbed. They begin to rogue snow believes that contact can be possible while Kelvin wanted to destroy the planet. They are planning to write report stand snow is convinced that the ocean is probably just created Rheya with no malevolent. And snow intends to stay on Solaris much to Kelvin shock.

Kelvin is always waiting to leave the station for some months. He is thinking about how he can transform .There is the description of the grieving process; really he is mourning Rheya another time. Snows start to talk concerning religion(Lem134). Kelvin is having a problem he is having this idea of ocean as God which is not perfectly .Snow and Kelvin wonders whether the human kind might be that right.

Kelvin visits old memoir over the sea in the helicopter. Snow wonders that Kelvin will kill himself, but Kelvin advises him to quit dreaming. Kelvin explores the memoir and realizes that he come to see the ocean .he gets out on a beach puts his hand in an ocean, and it molds his hands. He thinks about Rheya and how he is waiting for her without hope.

In conclusion the author of the book tries to pass the message of the current situation in the world. Many good moral lessons can be learned from the main themes as discussed above. The novel is targeting everyone in the planet earth and it can be of great use. Science fiction inevitably is a commentary on the human species as a whole in general, and especially in the age of modern society, people in everyday life opposed sociologists. In this sense, science fiction is a form of social criticism (Freedman24).It provides people with the occasion to think about themes that, in everyday life, are taken for granted. Science fiction is a commentary on social relations. Throughout history, people in society have been able to cooperate to a greater or lesser degree, and with the beginning of industrialization and the spread of market capitalism, people have been required to focus on competing with others, in order for them to succeed. In a sense, to function and be successful requires accepting that the system of political economy pits people against each other, to a greater or lesser degree. Sociology, social theory, and science fiction all are ways to consider what problems result from the fact that the  approach to relating to other people is to think of them and treat them as potential or actual competitors. This comes after long period of struggling to transform the society.

Work cited

Freedman, Carl. “Solaris: Stanislaw Lem and the Structure of Cognition.”Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Hanover, NH: U of New England P (2000): 96-111.

Lem, Stanislaw. “Solaris. Translated by J. Kilmartin and S. Cox.” (1971).

Lem, Stanislaw. “Solaris, trans. Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox.” Solaris, The Chain of Chance, A Perfect Vacuum (London: Penguin, 1981) (1961): 32.