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Major Theme in The Old Man and
The Sea
Hariyani Kishan Kumar .R
Paper no 10
M.A. Sem:3
2015'17
Submitted To :M.K.Bhavanagar
University
Preface:-
The
plot of "The old man and the sea" is evidently basic yet entirely
planned. Most Critics concur that the topic of this book is man's ability to
withstand and rise above hardship of time and condition. The thought is passed
on through Santiago's undertakings with the Marlin and with the sharks.
Hemingway delineates in fortuitous detail basic long term hardships to which
Santiago is subjected. His bold reaction is summoning both physical vitality
and inventive vision to counter the powers testing him. The significant
subjects of "The old man and the sea" are as under.
The undefeated:-
Santiago
concentrates on this solidarity and considers himself to be a piece of nature
than as an outer rival contending with it. He can't be vanquished by whatever
hardships be full him. "The old man and the sea" has practically an
indistinguishable topic from "the undefeated" the story is composed a
quarter century prior. The old angler who has not made a catch for eighty-four
days is in an indistinguishable human circumstance from the maturing matador of
that story. This novella gives another definition and intending to Hemingway
function in general. It gives the reader a quicker familiarity with the way
that Hemingway views moral stamina as the most vital esteem in life.
Love:-
Santiago
comes to feel his most profound love for the animal that he himself chases and
murders. He feels the desire to vanquish this extraordinary fish not just for
his physical need however much more for his wet blanket and his calling. The
colossal marlin is not at all like the other fish which the old man gets. The
marlin is an otherworldly more than a physical need. The marlin is as well, a
commendable foe for the old man. Amid his extreme test Santiago comes to pity
and afterward to regard and to love the marlin. At last he feels that there can
be no triumph for either in the equivalent battle between them. The conditions
which united them have made them one. Furthermore, however he executes the
immense fish the old man has come to love it as his equivalent and his sibling.
This topic gives the basic structure inside which the old man's Heroic
independence and his affection for his kindred animals show up and capacity and
which gives them their definitive essentialness.
Feeling of guilt:-
Throughout the story Santiago is given heroic proportions. He
fights the great fish with epic skill and experience. “A man can be destroyed,
but not defeated”, he says in the course of his fight with the sharks. But
beyond Santiago’s heroic individualism and beyond the love and brotherliness
which he comes to feel for the marlin. There is a further dimension to the old
man’s experience. In killing the great marlin and in losing it to the sharks,
the old man realizes the sin into which men full in going far out beyond their
depth or beyond their true place in life. In the first night of his struggle
with the marlin, the old man begins to feel loneliness and a sense almost of
guilt for the way in which he has caught it. After killing the marlin he feels
no pride of accomplishment, no sense of victory.
Solidarity and interdependence:-
Human
solidarity and relationship consequently constitute a prevailing topic of this
novel. The subject, it is to be noted is fortified by the utilization of a
couple of images of whom the most imperative are baseball and the lions. The
baseball champion, DiMaggio, is a steady wellspring of motivation to the old
man. The possibility of the African lions is, in like manner, a wellspring of
quality to him. Another image fortifying the topic is that of the execution.
There is the picture of the torturous killing. Which is conspicuously utilized
towards the end of the story, joins Santiago with Christ? Every one of these
images infers solidarity and association not separation or estrangement.
Heroism:-
Triumph over squashing
difficulty is the heart of heroism. With the worry of Santiago the angler to be
a chivalrous insignia for mankind, his tribulations must be prevailing. Triumph
however is never last, as Santiago's fruitful killing of the marlin appears.
There would be no motivation to incorporate the last 30 pays of the book.
Hemingway vision of courage is Sisyphean, requiring constant work for
quintessentially transient closures. What the legend does is to face misfortune
with pride and effortlessness, henceforth Heming way's Neozoic accentuation on
restraint and alternate features of his concept of masculinity. What we
accomplish or come up short at remotely is not as noteworthy to heroism as the
comporting ourselves with internal respectability. As Santiago says, "Man
is not made for thrashing a man can be decimated however not vanquished".
Manhood:
Heming
path's optimal of masculinity is about in distinct from the perfect of chivalry
examined previously. To take care of business is to carry on with respect and
poise and to take care of business is to torment, to acknowledge one's
obligation without grievance, and above all to show a most extreme of
discretion. The representation of gentility, the ocean is described explicitly
by its whim and absence of poise. On the off chance that she did wild or evil
things it was on the grounds that she couldn't help them. The representation of
manliness, the marlin is portrayed as extraordinary, excellent, quiet, and
honourable. Santiago steels him against his agony by letting himself know.
Suffer like a man, or a fish
In Hemingway’s ethical universe, Santiago shows us not only how to
live life heroically but in a way befitting a man.
His Christian virtues:-
There is something of the Christian saint about Santiago. He has
achieved the most difficult and saintly
of all
Christian virtues, that is humility. It is humility so absolute that is
involves” no loss of true pride.” There is even in him a suggestion of Saint
Francis, in his attitude to animal life, and especially to birds. Moreover at
various moments in the story Santiago affirms the major Christian virtues like
faith, hope and charity. In the very first dialogue between Santiago and the
boy marlin we learn that the boy’s father has not much, faith, Santiago and
mandolin have it:
“He hasn’t much faith.”
“No,” the old man said. “But we have. Haven’t we?”
“Yes”, the boy said.
Towards the close of the novel, the old man tells himself:
“It is silly not to hope. Besides it is a sin.”
As for charity we see it clearly in his generous love of men and
animals.
Pride:-
Hemingway’s treatment of pride in a novella is ambivalent. A
heroic man like Santiago should have pride in his actions, and as Santiago
shows us.” Humility was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”
It is apparently Santiago’s pride which presses him to travel dangerously far
out into the sea,” beyond all people in the world,” to catch the marlin. While
he loved the marlin and called him brother, Santiago admits to killing it for
pride, his blood stirred by battle with such a noble and worthy antagonist.
Some have interpreted the loss of the marlin as the price Santiago had to pay
for his pride in travelling out so far in search of such a catch. Contrarily,
one could argue that this pride was beneficial as it allowed Santiago an
edifying challenge worthy of his heroism. In the end, Hemingway suggests that
pride in a job well done, even if pride drew one unnecessarily into the
situation, is a positive trait.
Success:-
The novel is to be sure wonderful for its weight on what man can
"do" and on the world as a field where courageous deeds are conceivable.
In this universe everybody has a part to assume and Santiago's part is to seek
after the considerable marlin: "that which I was conceived for", he
reflects. To be a saint intends to set out more than other man. To be a saint
intends to open oneself to more serious threats and in this manner all the more
extraordinarily to chance the conceivable outcomes of annihilation and
profundity. Santiago satisfies this trial of chivalry about such a man it is
crazy to state that things are done to him and that he does pretty much
nothing. On the eighty-fifth day Santiago pushes a long ways past the standard
angling region. That is itself accomplishing something significant. Since he
goes out too far in the ocean, he gets the considerable fish. The fish is so
intense it hauls his boat much more remote so far that he can't get back so as
to keep the marlin being eaten up by the sharks. The enormity of the experience
and the unavoidable nature gives people boundless open doors for the colossal
experience. The experience conveys with it an overwhelming heartbreaking cost.
Santiago's accomplishment drums up some excitement among the anglers in his
town. The visitors of the story confuse the marlin for a shark however they too
are struck by a feeling of the exceptional.
Conclusion:
There are many themes in this novella but the main theme is
heroism. We can see some heroic deeds which are done by the character Santiago
fight with nature and the last sentence “ A man can be destroyed but not defeated”.
In this way nature also performed their role and man performed his role in man
v/s nature very deep and philosophical meaning consist in this novel .
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