毕业设计论文老人与海人物形象分析论文终稿

毕业设计论文老人与海人物形象分析论文终稿内容摘要：

int and most importantly to display a imum of selfcontrol 31 Santiagos confidence and courage The characters in Hemingways novels are always strong brave and endurable They always experience all kinds of difficulties and sufferings and they can endure them silently They are never discouraged Once they fight they will get the victory The firm and unbending characteristic is what we call the spirit of steelwilled man which is one main characteristic of Hemingways writing The Old Man and the Sea has reached the cli and bees the symbol of this kind of spirit The major character Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea is that kind of steelwilled man He is confident and hopeful in spirit and is courageous in action His confidence and courage are gradually presented during conflicts that happen when he goes to sea catches a marlin and struggles against sharks The old mans courage and strength are shown from his brave struggle against sharks In the returning trip the more dangerous and terrible disasters piled up in him schools of sharks came to attack the marlin of the old man His rivals were so powerful and fearful that he couldnt escape his defeat But the old man had no fear at all and prepared for the fight In The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway also writes about the courage with which men face the tragedies of life that can never be remedied Santiagos message is that man can be destroyed but not be defeated Santiago will die but the example of his heroic struggle will live He must continue killing sharks up to the end even though he knows it is hopeless because only in this way can he redeem the initial act of going out too far or of ruining the marlin or himself Meeting death on his own terms is in part the reason behind Santiagos decision to venture out so far Too proud to be the laughingstock of the village or to accept his physical decline Santiago will challenge nature and die if necessary rather than live in order to be rejected and humiliated by nature and his fellow fisherman Such feelings explain why he is never tempted to let go of the line not even for one moment 32 Love of nature and respect for life Hemingway loves nature and his yearning towards the harmonious relationship between man and nature is reflected in The Old Man and the Sea through the vivid description of its beauty and Santiagos unity with all the sea creatures All the creatures are full of beauty and vitality in The Old Man and the Sea The old man has a sweet dream at night before he sets out to the sea He dreams of Africa with beautiful beaches high capes mountains and lions Unlike the other fishermen who take the ocean merely as a kind of object from which they are able to get a lot of economic benefits Santiago looks at the ocean with love and respect In The Old Man and the Sea Santiago and the sea are dependent on each other for survival and integrated with each other Once on the sea he shows his love to nature the sea and the creatures in the sea When talking of the sea Santiago always employs the pronoun her which is used for female The old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors And if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them Herzberg and 1985173 The sea is the old fishermans home and it provides necessities to him in a sense He is attached to the sea in his blood As a fisherman Santiagos whole life depends on the fishes Though he admires the beauty nobility calmnessgreatness and dignity of the fishes and says they are his brothers or friends what he really has to do is nothing but killing them for his purpose of living The reason why he goes far out to sea is that he wants to catch the fish to eat or sell for money so that he can keep him alive and feed many people Without the necessary materials taken from the natural world no one can survive 33 Expectation for the Future The s。