CULTURA INGLESA

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Isabel Carolina Hutter Gomes
A HUNDRED BILLION BOTTLES
WASHED UP ON THE SHORE
SEEMS I'M NOT ALONE AT BEING
ALONE
A HUNDRED BILLION CASATWAYS
LOOKING FOR A HOME
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE - THE POLICE (1979)
 Introduction
Popular perceptions
Besides interest in citizen science drift-bottle experiments,
message-in-a-bottle lore has often been of a romantic or poetic.

• Edgar Allan Poe’s 1833 story "MS. Found in

a Bottle"
• Nicholas Sparks' 1998 Message in aBottle.

Clint Buffington, subject of the 2019 documentary short film The

Tides That Bind / A Message in a Bottle Story, surmised in an
interview with The Guardian that sending a bottled message
expresses a hope to find connection in a fear-filled world
What a message in a
bottle is?
A message in a bottle is a form of
communication in which a message
is sealed in a container (typically a
bottle) and released into a
conveyance medium (typically a
body of water).

Use of the term "message in a bottle" has expanded

to include metaphorical uses or uses beyond its
traditional meaning as bottled messages released
into oceans.
Uses of messages in a bottle
The lore surrounding messages in bottles has
often been of a romantic or poetic nature.
Messages in bottles have been used to send distress messages, in scientific studies of
ocean currents, as memorial tributes, to send deceased loved ones' ashes on a final
journey, to convey expedition reports, and to carry letters or reports from those
believing themselves to be doomed. Invitations to prospective pen pals and letters to
actual or imagined love interests have also been sent as messages in bottles..

Distress - The feeling of being very upset or worried

Deceased - Dead
Convey - To express a thought, feeling, or idea so that it is understood by other people
Doomed - Certain to fail, die, or be destroyed
Pen pals - Someone that you write to regularly but have never met
Lore - Knowledge and stories, usually traditional, about a subject
 Environmental issues
With a growing awareness that bottles constitute
waste that can harm the environment and marine
life, biodegradable drift cards and wooden blocks are
alternatives favored by environmentalists.
 THE
MOST INTERESTING HISTORIES OF
MESSAGES IN A BOTTLE

310 B.C 1500S 1913 2009

The earliest known message in a
bottle is sent by the Greek
philosopher Theophrastus, one of
Aristotle’s pupils, as a way of testing
his hypothesis that the Atlantic
Ocean flows into the Mediterranean
Sea.
Queen Elizabeth appoints a royal
“Uncorker of Ocean Bottles” and
makes the unauthorized opening
of an “ocean bottle” a capital
crime
A message in a bottle that reads
In a land-based discovery, workers
“From Titanic. Goodbye all. Burke
near Auschwitz find a message in a
of Glanmire Cork” washes ashore
bottle written by prisoners of the Nazi
in Dunkettle, Ireland.
camp dated September 9, 1944, and
bearing the names, camp numbers,
and hometowns of seven men
THANK YOU !
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