An Analysis of the Heroic Character in the Old Man and the Sea
学 院：外国语学院
班 级：正反比例的概念英语101
姓 名： 王 金
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An Analysis of the Heroic Character in the Old Man and the Sea
Abstract: Hemingway was one of the most famous novelists in America. He created a perfect image of Code Hero: Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea which won Hemingway Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most influential and far-reaching novels of the literary treasure of the world. The content of the essay is to analyze the characteristics of Code Hero. Through the introduction to Hemingway’s legend life, we find some common points between the author and the old man, and the most 张当famili服务质量承诺书
排列图ar point is that both of them have the spirit of Code Hero. Then I will analys the spirit of Code Hero. The spirit is concentrated on four areas: First, never give up hopes in any difficult conditions; condly, keep daring spirit and never admit defeat in the process of fighting; thirdly, behave heroically in the actual battle; and last, endure the loneliness in the long process of the fighting. The last part of the essay is the conclusion. This paper will analyze the image of the old man, reveal the characteristics of Code Hero, and advocate the spirit of never giving up.
Keywords：Spirit, Hemingway, Code Hero, Santiago
1 The Introduction to the Author
Regarded as a giant both in American literature and the world literature, Ernest Hemingway was born on July21, 1898, at Oak Park, Illinois. During World War I he worked as an ambulance driver in France and in the Italian infantry and was wounded verely just before his 19th birthday. Later, he became involved with the expatriate literary and artistic circle surrounding Gertrude Stein when he was working in Paris as a c
orrespondent for the Toronto Star, His works during the 1920s are reprentative of“the Lost Generation”. During the Spanish Civil War and later the Second Word War, Hemingway rved as a correspondent on the loyalist side. Then he ttled in Cuba in 1945. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature for his“mastery of the art of modern narration”. After his expulsion from Cuba by the Castro regime, he moved to Idaho. He was increasingly plagued by ill health and mental problems, and in July, 1961, he committed suicide by shooting himlf.
Hemingway’s life is filled with kinds of adventures, and from his rich and colorful life experiences，his life ems like an unusual book which many other people in the world admire and envy. Hemingway's fiction usually focus on people living esntial, dangerous lives, soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters, who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage. From his works and life experiences, Hemingway is indeed a perfectionist. Many of the heroes that he created in novels are reprented his code man spirit---perfectionism, especially in The Old Man and the Sea. The old man named Santiago reprented Hemingway’s perfectionism characteristic mor
e vividly than other code man in his works
2 The Introduction to the Background
Hemingway’s life was active and adventurous but full of pains. He lived in the period that the World War One broke out when many young volunteers took part in the war which also called “a war ends all wars”. But the cruel reality made them aware that modern warfare was not as glorious as they thought. Actually the First and the Second World Wars had affected Hemingway a lot, for he had once joined the army and had injured in Italy, so he suffered much which was brought about by the war deeply. He was disappointed with the world at that time and became very pessimistic about the fate of the human beings. As a young writer and spokesman of the “The Lost Generation”, and influenced by the greedy and heedless way of life in America, Hemingway’s works all vividly recorded the life of tho physically and mentally wounded soldiers, revealed the frustration, loneliness when “God is dead”.
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3 Plot
It is a poetic tragic novel told in language of great simplicity and power. 代付款三方协议范本>英文原声电影Its hero is an old Cuban fisherman ---Santiago, who is down on his luck, and tries to fight against his fate. In the story Santiago has gone for 84 days without catching a fish. As a result, Mandolin, a little boy, who ud to sail with him, is forbidden from fishing with the old man by his parents and forced to catch fish in another “good-lucky” ship.
Later despite the boy asks for fishing together again, but the old man insists on fishing alone and at last, he succeeds in hooking a giant marlin which is eighteen-foot, the largest he has ever known before. But the fish is very powerful and disobedient. It tows the old man and his boat for almost 48 hours, the old man could do nothing but bearing the whole weight of the fish through the line on his back. The old man, with little food and sleep, has to bear a lot of pain and at the same time fight against the fish. To his great excitement, he was rewarded for his struggle. On the third day at a, he finally catches the weakened marlin to the surface and harpoons it.
On his way home, he lashed marlin alongside his boat becau it is too big to be put in th
e boat. But, unfortunately, the sharks assaulted the old man and the giant marlin in different directions for four times. The old man fights to kill the sharks with as much strength he can summon, but only to find a giant skeleton of his marlin left after his desperate defen. At last, Santiago, having lost what he fought for, reaches the shore and struggles to his shack. He falls into sound sleep, dreaming of Africa and the lions again.
4 Analysis of the heroic characters
甄嬛后传小品台词In the novel, the author portrays the image of an old Cuban fisherman who has gone for 84 days with catching nothing. “The old man was thin and gaunt, with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic a were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep cread scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of the scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless dert.” From the words, we may feel sympathetic toward the old man and think that h
e is too week to catch a big fish. But “Everything about him was old except his eye and they were the same color as the a and were cheerful and undefeated.” In spite of his old and week appearance, his eyes are not stuffy but as cheerful as the young men’s eyes through which we can e his unyielding spirit. This contrast clearly shows Santiago’s real personality.
