Abstract
The Old Man and the Sea ,written by Hemingway, is a famous realistic novel, which tells the frustrated experience that the Old fisherman fishes in the course.
Hemingway is a masterpiece of the unyielding man. there was an little boy, Manolin follow the Old Man fishing from 5 years old who was the best Supplement for the Unyielding Man Character. The living environment, the sea ,the shark ,the marlin are not themselves but have significant symbolical meaning .
Hemingway grew in the time that symbolism was embodied and expanded from circle of poet into the field of literature. Hemingway himself also thought that the novel should be like an iceberg, the one-eighth reveals above the water, the other seven-eighths hide deeply in the water, which needs the reader himself to understand. In other words, one has to keep a close eye on Hemingway’s words and reading between the lines because of his highly symbolic language. The theme and the description of The Old Man and the Sea is very simple, because it reveals only one -eighth on the face, the rest seven-eighths are hidden, when reading carefully and learning about the culture and situation at that time, you can understand the real hidden part by the writer. So, the distinctive writing style of Hemingway is his iceberg theory and symbolism.
Key words: The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway, Iceberg Theory, Symbolical.
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 2
1.The content of this novel . 3
1.1 The writer 3
1.2 The plot of the story 3
2. The Symbolism in the Works 4
2.1 The Old Man-the Best Expression to “the unyielding character” 4
2.2 The Boy-the Best Supplement for the Unyielding Man Character 5
2.3 The Sea-the Symbol of Hemingway’s Survival Environment 5
2.4 Iceberg theory. 6
3. Conclusion . 7
References . 7
