【正文】 have I seem a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer, or more noble thing than you, brother.” 4 But the aim of his sailing out to sea reminds him of the mission he must carry out. Killing the fish is for supporting himself, and also for supporting many other people. Just like what he says, “I did it to keep me alive and feed many people.” 5 Moreover, as a fisherman, all his dignity and glory depends on whether he can fulfill this task. The old fisherman is defeated, but he finds himself in handing the failure. His attitude and manners are successful. Here, Santiago?s characteristics of determination and fortitude are shown vividly and thoroughly in the sea. It is shown in fighting against the big Marlin, against the school of sharks. Just like what Santiago himself says, “Man is not made for defeat.” 6 So relying on his own power and strength, Santiago triumphs over the nature, over the failure, and showing the man?s nobleness and greatness. So long as he is alive, he will struggle to the end. B. Santiago’s Courage and Bravery 1. Sailing out Away from the Land Alone Santiago is an old Cuban fisherman living on fishing. Life has not been easy. He has caught no fish at all for 84 days continuously. In the beginning, he has the pany of a little boy out in the sea, but because of his bad luck the boy is forced by his parents to leave and go out to the sea with other fishermen. Now the 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。 《老人與?！酚矟h形象分析 Code Hero in the Old Man and the Sea 【關(guān)鍵詞】 《老人與?！?；桑提亞哥；硬漢 Introduction Introduction to the Author Ernest Hemingway is a American novelist and shortstory writer (18991961), one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hemingway?s fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives, such as soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters, who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage. His celebrated literary style, influenced by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, is direct, terse, and often monotonous, yet particularly suited to his elemental subject matter. Content of The Old Man and the Sea There is an old fisherman, Santiago, in Cuba who has gone eightyfour days without a catch. Santiago?s lack of success, though, does not destroy his spirit, as his “cheerful and undefeated” eyes show. On the eightyfifth day, he decides to venture far out to sea, hoping to change his bad luck. He is even