老人与海英语论文
少林正宗-
An Analysis of the Heroic
Character in
the Old Man and the Sea
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院：外国语学院
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级：英语
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100801009
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
familiar point is that both of them have the
spirit
of Code Hero. Then I will
analyses the spirit of Code Hero. The spirit is
concentrated
on four areas: First,
never give up hopes in any difficult conditions;
secondly, 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
severely 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 correspondent for the
Toronto Star, His works during the 1920s are
representative
of
“
the Lost
Generation
”
. During the
Spanish Civil War and later the Second Word
War, Hemingway served as
a
correspondent
on the loyalist
side.
Then he
settled 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 himself.
1
Hemingway
’
s
life
is
filled
with
kinds
of
adventures,
and
from
his
rich
and
colorful life
experiences
，
his life seems
like an unusual book which many other people
in the world admire and
envy.
Hemingway's fiction
usually focuses on people living
essential,
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
represented his
code man spirit---
perfectionism, especially in
The Old
Man
and
the
Sea
.
The
old
man
named
Santiago
represented
Hemingway
’
s
perfectionism characteristic more
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
those
physically
and
mentally wounded soldiers, revealed the
frustration, loneli
ness when “God is
dead”.
3 Plot
It
is a poetic tragic novel told in language of great
simplicity and power. 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 used 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
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