Name: Baldaniya Vanita Velabhai
Semester: 3
Roll No: 29
Topic: Character of Old Man
Work: Assignment
paper: Course No: 10
The American Literature.
Date: 19/10/2015
Email id: vanitabaldaniya0806@gmail.com
Submitted by: Smt. S. B. Gardi,
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University.
Bhavnagar.
Department of English
Character of Old Man
The Old Man and The Sea
by- Ernest Hemingway
-1952
American Literature.
"Those were the best rules I ever
learned
for the business of writing.
I've never forgotten them."
His Famous work:
1) men
without women (1927)
2)winner
take nothing (1933)
3)
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
4) The
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
5) Bell
Tolls
The
old man and the sea 1952, a parable novella about man's struggle against
nature. Hemingway was awarded the noble prize in 1954, and wrote little
thereafter. Having been seriously ill for some time , he shot himself on July,
2, 1961.
Santiago
"The
Old man and the Sea " is title is a fisher man by trade. He bears the
fitting name of Santiago. The word Santiago it literally mean, Saint James who
was originally a fisherman living close to the sea of Galilee and subsequently
become an apostle. Eventually he suffered martyrdom early one morning after
months of bad fishing Luck, he rows out alone into the Gulf stream near the Island of Cuba.
Towards
noon of the first day, he hooks a gigantic Marlin for two days and two nights
it pulls him in his boat far to the north word and the eastward while he hang for dear life on to the heavy line, a human
towing boat fishing a battle of endurance against the power of the fish on the
third day, again nearly at noon, he succeeds in bringing the Marlin to the
surface and killing it with his harpoon.
Since
it is too large to be put aboard, he
lashes, it alongside his skiff and sets his small, patched sail for the long
voyage home. Then one by one, two by two
and later in large numbers the sharks attack the dead Marlin. By the time the
old man has reached his native harbor, there is nothing left of the Marlin
except the skeleton, the phony head and the sail like tail.
He
is a man of courage tremendous capacity for endurance and patience. He
suffers and kills, and his suffering raises his stature. He freedoms a symbol
of Christ in his killing which causes
him to suffer in his encounter with the Marlin , he shows his gallantry, skill,
power of endurance and faces hunger and starvation for three days, He never
loses hopes
The
old man has fought and struggle and there is glory in his suffering his image
reminds us of the suffering of Christ Carlos Baker has remarked;-
"Santiago shows, it
his own right, certain
qualities of mind and heart
which are clearly
associated with the
character and personality
of Jesus Christ in the
Gospel stories. There
is the essential gallantry,
a kind of military.....
There is the ability to ignore.
Physical pain while
concern treating on the
large of leet which is to be
achieved."
The old
man loses the battle he has won. He winners takes nothing but the sense of
having fought the fight to the limits of his strength of having shown what a man can, do when it is
necessary. He is undefeated only because he has gone on trying.
The
warmth of our sympathy can be traced in part to the way in which the portrait
of Santiago himself has been drawn. He was an old man the story begins;,
"Who fished alone in a
skiff in the gulf
stream and he had
gone eight four days
now without taking a
fish. In the first
forty days a boy had
been with him. But
after forty days without
a fish the boy's
parents had told
him that the old man was
definitely and finally salvo, which it the
worst from of unlucky,
and the boy had
gone at their orders in
another boat
which caught three good
fish the first week..."
Everything
about him was old except his eyes and
they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
Other
qualities of Santiago deserve attention in this connection. They are Santiago's
humanity, his natural piety and his compassion, His humanity is of that well tested kind which
can co exist pride.
"He was too simple to
wonder when he had
attained humanity. But he
know he know he
had attained it and he know
it was not disgraful
and it carried no loss of
true pride".
When his own disciple, Monolin. Call him the best
fisher man Santiago replies
;
"No I Know other
better".
The boy then says;
"There are many good
fisherman and
some great ones but there
is only you".
To this the old man
replies;
"Thanks you. you make
me happy I
hope no fish will come
along so great
that he will prove us
wrong".
Although
Santiago is often jawed about his
religion he is yet a pious old man. The piety appears in his constant unquestioning awareness of a Supernatural
power, at once outside and inside his personal struggle. His accessions to
Christ to God and to the virgin are
never cates they are simple petitions request to a supposedly available source
of strength of which he feels the need, for instance, the old man says,;
"I am not religious , But I will say ten our
fathers and the tail
narus that I should
catch thing fish and I
promise to make
a pilgrimage to the virgin
do catch him that
is a promise."
Some
consider Santiago to be a biblical hero, and some find similar conditions
between him and the Christ whatever we may say about him the fact remains that
he ultimately comes nearer the Greek hero by virtue of his prowess and
nobility. He knows that a man should fight to the last. He has last capacity to
endure things pain does not matter to
him. He accepts his destiny as a fishfock very cheerfully. Perhaps he wouldn't
like to exchange it. It with a Million ours. He is happy in spite of his being
be sieved by the sharks. The old man may get awfully tired, but he keeps on dreaming
for a life at sea. He dreams of the lions on the feathers in Africa.
It
means that he still is prepared to be on the sea, which is in his flood his ego
95 most resonantly very inflated. He
does not suffer a fall because of his pride, but because of the natural
circumstances Santiago as a hero is marvelous . He is the most representative of the modern heroes in literature.
Hemingway in creating such a character has again reaffirmed his belief
in human dignity and manly fight against the odds in life.
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated".
This is
how Hemingway states his theme in this novel. And the theme is familiar to
Hemingway readers familiar too is the remark ;" What a man can do and
cannot a man endures".
This
is the first time, in all Hemingway work that the code hero and the Hemingway
hero become almost one Santiago represents the Hemingway hero having developed
in to the code hero.
Story
of old man and the sea and old man is struggling hero. He always not accept
defeat. The story concern an old man who battles a giant Marlin for three days
and nights. This novella was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1953. The old man and the sea is picaresque novel. Picaresque
means when hero journey without heroin
in novel that is picaresque novel. So
old man is also alone and he was journey without heroin so that is picaresque novel.
Old man
are experience people and very old and
experience are more and more in his life so Ernest Hemingway choice old man
hero in his novel. For example: Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe write this picaresque novel because Robinson also
journey without heroin.
Santiago is a protagonist of the novel " The Old Man And The
Sea" . Old man is fisherman and His knowledge of the sea and its creatures
of his craft. Because he was old and
passes his life so knowledge and he is brave, confidence, cheerful and
optimistic person. He was a resourceful person. Santiago said that:,
" A mirror or contrast
image of Hemingway's
Biography".
Simple,
but deeply meaningful story old man's struggle for survival Santiago who have
all good and bad experience of life. He fight against nature. The novel
suggests that it is possible to transcend this natural law. Death is the
unavoidable force in to novella, kind of open-ended.
He
is regarded as a has been because he has go 84 days journey and after 84 days
coming without fish but he is not accept defeat . Hemingway's loneliness
is apparent in Santiago's
characterization and external conflict. Hemingway was an expert at deep sea
fishing and had own several prizes in various competitions.
The
Background in the Old Man And The sea is divided from real life Cuban fishing
villages near the Gulf stream. The subject of the luckiness old man who caught
a giant fish also came from personal experience.
SANTIAGO;
"Everyday is new Day"
Santiago
never accept defeat but was "hope" is chief thing. Hemingway
description to words nature life giver and life taker old man's struggle is
repetitive same in Hemingway life. Struggle is ultimately futile.
Hemingway's
hated of women is also apparent in this story. because of Hemingway's native
experience to women, most of the reference to females in The Old Man And The
Sea, are negative. Hemingway exalts males further deprecates females. He believed that women
luck self control, and they are deceptive.
Santiago represents a noble and tragic
individualism revealing what man can do in an indifferent universe which
defeats him, and the love he can feel for such a universe ad his humanity
before it Hemingway has been
increasingly concerned with the relationship between individualism and inter
dependence.
The
old man and The Sea is manifestation of Hemingway's life and experience. so
that is Hemingway written "The Old
Man And The Sea" 's character The Old Man.
Really such a nice assignment. original dialogues I can read in your assignment.
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