Stephen Maturin is a fictional character in the Aubrey/Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. He is a physician at the service of the Royal Navy, and also a naturalist by vocation; besides that he likes to play violin. He also serve as a spy during the Napoleonic wars.
He may be considered as a prototype of the modern man; a sub product of the renascence and enlightenment times of our era. He was a scientist as a physician and a naturalist, with a great commitment to knowledge improvement, and dedicated to the liberal arts via the music.
In the Master and Commander movie we can see all this psychological traces of his character as a general practitioner at his post as a physician of the ship commanded by his friend Nick Aubrey, when he explores the Galapagos and methodically dissect and classify the species that he can come a board and even discover some new ones, and when he plays the violin with Nick.
That's how i see humanity at the culminate of our state of civilization: mankind devoted to the pursue of knowledge with respect with their environment and a sensible soul to the art: sneaking into doors opened by the ancient Greeks.
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