2007-01-26 11:49:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
That the ship wouldn't have been as severly damaged as it was if they hit the iceberg head on rather than trying to miss it
If they hit it head on - they would have only damaged the front of the ship
Because they attempted to turn - the iceberg ripped a gash along the side of the ship - filling numerous compartments with water and ultimately causing it to sink
2007-01-26 11:56:57 · answer #1 · answered by edivine 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Titanic Irony
2016-12-10 14:19:07 · answer #2 · answered by lempicki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a couple of ironies.
The Titanic was an "unsinkable" ship; it sank.
Also, for many people, the Titanic represented a chance for a new life, and of course, many of those people died; the exact opposite of what anyone imagined.
The name of the ship is also ironic in relation to the sinking.
Also, what everyone else said about the ship hitting the iceberg head-on.
The decision was made to speed up the ship so that its early arrival would make headlines-- which is the reason they could not turn the ship in time. The result of this mistake certainly made headlines.
Hope that helps.
2007-01-26 12:15:16 · answer #3 · answered by Krimo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1898 a writer named Morgan Robertson published a novel called 'Futility'. This story features an huge British passenger liner called the 'Titan', which is supposed to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats, and on a voyage in the month of April, hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board.
There were, of course, a number of differences between the two ships, but the similarity between Robertson's 'Titan' and the 'Titanic' was much discussed at the time.
2007-01-26 15:30:55 · answer #4 · answered by irish1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The box office success of the film juxtaposed with the admonishment and scorn leveled by the industry at a great director James Cameron, because after having creating the most successful Hollywood film of all time he had the audacity to proclaim at an award acceptance speech in his honor a recognizable line from his own film and thus awkwardly described the moment and leading to his ostracization "I'm the King of the World"..
2007-01-26 12:12:44 · answer #5 · answered by zackadoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
expectation of an outcome
The nearly unsinkable ship was renamed by the newspapers as unsinkable (That's funny News in general still balloons everything almost 100yrs later) the out come sinkable, but the meaning of Titanic is "Having great size, or great strength, force or power" and having all that it still went down.
so no matter how great the person or thing the risk of failure is as great.
2007-01-26 13:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by Earth to Mars 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
named the "Unsinkable ship" and it sank. That is irony. One note though. The Titanic sinking was horrible and tragic.
2007-01-26 11:55:36 · answer #7 · answered by wondering247 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The events that led to the Titanic sitting at the bottom of the ocean are ironic because the ship was billed as being "unsinkable." It is COMPLETELY ironic because she sank on her maiden voyage, not her second, or fiftieth.
2007-01-26 12:19:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As everyone has said - it was billed as "unsinkable" and it sank. I think it's even more ironic though that the unsinkable ship didn't just sink - it sank on its *maiden voyage*. It didn't even complete one trip before it went under.
2007-01-26 12:02:25 · answer #9 · answered by happyhomeschooler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently this ship would never sink
It sank with the designer, the engineer, and an experienced captain.
The boats were not enough assuming that they would never use them.
What else ?
2007-01-26 11:58:11 · answer #10 · answered by Classy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋