Hemmingway asserts that Santiago is an attempt to represent the whole of man's experience through a system of symbolic correspondence. Hemingway also used the symbol of Christian symbolism. Hemingway incorporated the symbolism of youth through the boy Manolin. Hemingway symbolized the creatures also has to balance the horror of aloneness which the old man is feeling in his journey with marlin. Nature is the best resort in all Hemingway's novels. The Old Man and the Sea is the story told smoothly and swiftly, the conflict is resolved into a struggle between man and a force which he scarcely comprehends, but he knows that he must continue to strive against, though knowing that the struggle must end in defeat.

The details of the novel have been glanced from Hemingway's long experience of fishing in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea is a simple realistic story of a Cuban fisherman named Anselmo Hernandez. The Christian Symbolism, Sea and Nature as symbol of life and light of the protagonist against the life to survive in this world are clearly depicted. The present study reveals various symbolic meaning incorporated by Hemingway in the novel The Old Man and the Sea. In the exercise of the physicality of both man and fish, Hemingway demonstrates a kind of nobility that exists only in this world when two creatures achieve brotherhood in a trial of endurance which demands every ounce of strength and every skill they possess.Įrnest Miller Hemingway is acknowledged as the most significant writer of 20th century American literature. The Old Man and the Sea presents a world in which man and beast survive and are at their best only when acting courageously in a bad world where there is no love nor mercy nor charity nor justice unless man can keep his courage. Hemingway seems to have simply turned his back on a sick society and all sociological, metaphysical and spiritual efforts to cure it. This paper deals with the concept of courage, but courage is objectified in the narrative and the novelist seems to have had much faith in either concepts or ideals.

It is a story in which Hemingway seems to suggest that, at least in the natural order, man can find his own dignity and beauty in learning to understand the mystery of human power that is at the heart of so much that appears violent and cruel. Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is a study of man's place in a world of violence and destruction.

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