onhemingway’secologicalconsciousnessreflectedintheoldmanandthesea(编辑修改稿)

onhemingway’secologicalconsciousnessreflectedintheoldmanandthesea(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

o as his apprentice sent the black beans steamed rice, fried bananas, and some stew to him. Before going to sea, the old man slowly drank coffee that was his day diet. For a long time he was tired to eat so he never took lunch. He put a bottle of water in the bow of his boat. When he needed to supplement the energy in the fishing process, he had eaten raw tuna. He picked up the fish, put in the mouth, chewing slowly. That was his day diet. This was the old man’s life. At that time some Americans began the pursuit of luxury life, which was in sharp contrast with the old man’s very simple and poor life. Here, we can see the author’s intention clearly. Hemingway hoped that through Santiago’s description of simple life, people began the pursuit of the simple way of life against the claim to the nature without control and pursued harmonious coexistence of human and the nature. The respect of nonhuman life and the love of the nature According to ecological thinker Albert Schveitzer, human beings as a thinking animal must awe and respect every life of the nature. People respect these lives as they respect his own life. He believes that the real care should go to all the life and not just for humans. The protagonist had deep ethical thought and he respected all life and showed sympathy for every creature. In some degree, the protagonist Santiago was the epitome of Hemingway. From the protagonist’s attitude towards the nature, we can see Hemingway’s ecological consciousness. 5 The old man loved the sea and he always pared the ocean to women. In the old man’s eyes, she was kind and very beautiful. The old man praised the nature represented by the sea, which showed that he had deep understanding and the love of the natural world. It was because of his understanding of the natural world that his heart was full of the great love for the world with thousands of creatures. The old man regarded a sea creature as his brother and friends. He was very fond of flying fish, because it was the main friends on the ocean. He was sorry for the birds, especially the small black and the tender terns. For sea birds he gave them sympathy and he hoped his fate would be with the fate of the birds closely together. He was sorry for all the turtles, even those shuttle turtles that were in small boat length. People were heartless about turtles. However, the old man thought he had the heart as turtle had and also had their hands and feet. In his eyes, marlin was so sacred that nobody didn’t deserve it. He viewed the big marlin as the real opponent. Hemingway’s old fisherman Santiago respected all non–human life and put his own life, human life, and all the non human life in the same position. In his eyes, flying fish, turtles, dolphins, birds, small tern, Marlins were our human brothers. The sea, fish, birds, humans, plants build a mon life circle tighter and the human is only a part of the natural world. Human life aren’t more noble than other forms of life. To be exact, humans have no right to destroy the biosphere. Santiago’s thought was the subversion of the traditional anthropocentrism and this advanced ecological consciousness had very important warning and guidance at that time or toady. At that time in the modern western society it was the scientific era and tremendous energy released from natural science made the human conquer the nature with confidence. People thought that man was the master of the earth and held sway over the whole earth. Humans began to take all nonhuman life forms of animal on the earth as their food, which was in stark contrast to Hemingway’s ecological consciousness. Here Hemingway wanted to express his respect and love for the nature and all life of the nature. This ecological consciousness is the fundamental guarantee to maintain the continuation of human life on the earth and also is the key to protect the ecological balance. The interdependence between human and the nature Humans are part of the nature, so other creature and the nature are equal and it is a friend, 6 panion, absolutely not antagonistic relationship. Even if sometimes people and the nature will have some contradictions, it is not antagonistic contradictions. To solve this contradiction does not require the use of force to settle and regulation can be done in a peaceful way. In The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago was a human representation and the nature was mainly represented by the sea, the algae and fish in the sea. The novel has full description of people’s dependence on the sea. The basic necessities of life everywhere left natural trace. First of all we talked about the food that he ate. There were such descriptions on the paper. They were “the old man is eating turtle eggs in order to enhance stamina and he eats several months. At last the body will be strong enough to catch really big fish. He also drank a cup of shark glycerin to keep out the cold, cold resistance, but also beneficial to the eyes.”(Hemingway 39). The sea was the direct food source to the old man. Out of the dependence on the nature, the old man still went out for food regardless of the weather. His house and fishing boat were inseparable from the natural existence. The nature offered the old man’s daily life the material. Santiago was a fisherman, and he had the mind of a sea because the sea provided him with the food. He should not only rely on the sea to produce material to live, but also need absorb nutrients from the ocean in spirit. He had a strong character and a healthy body, which were all thanks to the nature. The old man was once terribly fatigued in the battle with the big marlin, but when he saw the bird fly over and at the moment he fot his fatigue, but began to care about birds situation. Similar experiences with them made the old man feel they were interlinked and interdepe。