老人与海硬汉形象分析codeherointheoldmanandthesea

老人与海硬汉形象分析codeherointheoldmanandthesea内容摘要：

old man is alone and helpless. Yet he is surprisingly strongmind. The contrast is between his old limp appearance and his ambitious minded. “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 sea, were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deepcreased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of the scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.” 7 Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. In The Old Man and the Sea, great tension is created from the two counter checking forces, and such tension intensifies the readers‟ expectation of the guy. One is the contrast between the wretched sail that is like a flag of permanent defeat and his undefeated eyes. Another is the contrast between wounded body and his pleasant eyes. Santiago still believes that he will have good luck again. He will be able to catch a big fish with his rich experience and great skill. The old man said, “ I may not be as strong as I think. But I know many tricks and I have resolutions.” 8 Hopefully, the old man sails silently on the black sea. It is very quiet all around. He decides to sail out far away from the land, and goes out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean, hearing the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness. He was rowing steadily. He enjoys the beauty of nature, without considering the disappointment of previous days. To him, a new day is a new start. This is a kind of pure doctrine which ever flourished in ancient times. Also, it takes a rather important position in American literature. This kind of philosophy was popular in the 20th century, especially among American writers who went through the two world wars. The old man believes in simplicity. He is simply dressed and sails alone on the sea, not using modern tools, neither a map nor a pass. “ This kind of circumstance which is cut off from the outside world is suitable for the typical character that Hemingway has written—Santiago‟s hopefulness.” 9 He depends on his own experience to show values of existence. 2. Fighting Against Sharks Nevertheless another crisis is waiting for Santiago on his way home. This time it is a fiercer fight than the one with Marlin—it is the fight with sharks. His fights with sharks develop in four stages. At the first stage, a Mako shark strikes the marlin and the old man resolves to kill it。 He hit it with his blood mushed hands driving a good harpoon with all his strength. He hit it without hope but with resolution… “But I killed the shark that hit my fish”, he thought. 10 He kills the Mako shark finally, but it tore off about forty pounds of flesh. In the killing, the old man loses his harpoon and all the rope too. And now his fish bleeds again and there will be other sharks attracted by the scent and trail of blood in the water. But the old man inspires himself by saying aloud, “ But man is not defeated. A man can be destroyed but not defeated…The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was.” 11 Earlier the second stage, two golanos e, They were hateful sharks, bad smelling, scavengers as well as killers. Santiago kills one with his knife that is lashed to an oar。 then he kills another with greater difficulty. But a quarter of the best marlin meat is now gone. The old man apologizes to it and decides to defend what is left of him. He waits for the next ones, wishing it might turn out well. Later, he kills a third galano, which has destroyed more of the Marlin, and in the process his knife blade breaks. But the old man still thinks, “I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and tiller.” 12 At the third stage es. Two more sharks appear at sunset. The old man is unable to kill them but injures them with a club made from an old broken oar. He thinks, “If I could have used a bat with two hands I could have killed them surely.” And he asks himself , “What will you do now if they e in the night? What can you do?” He answers, “I will fight them until I die.” 13 At the fourth stage, sharks e in a pack. Santiago fights them with a club and even with the skill‟s tiller, but the fight is useless. The sharks have eaten the Marlin up, leaving only a skeleton for him. Santiago‟s second battle with the sharks, though shorter in duration, is at least an intense as the fight with the Marlin. It shows Santiago‟s courage and endurance in many ways. He has used almost all his strength in fighting with the Marlin and now he has to fight by the limits of his strength. With hardly any strength left, he still holds on to the last moment. Though he knows the fight is useless, he will not give up. Only when he brings the Marlin back to the shore will his fellow fishermen e to realize his value again. It is certain that he is。