探讨欧内斯特海明威的作品《老人与海》中的冰山原则.docVIP

【标题】探讨欧内斯特?海明威的作品《老人与海》中的冰山原则 【作者】李 蓉 【关键词】冰山原则；厄纳斯特?海明威；《老人与海》 【指导老师】杨 波 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionIceberg Principle was created by Earnest Hemingway while The Old Man and the Sea was written by him, so this part mainly introduce the definition of Iceberg Principle and the plot of The Old Man and the Sea?.A. The Definition of Iceberg PrincipleEarnest Hemingway, a Nobel Prize winner for literature is one of the greatest American writers in the 20th century. In Death in the Afternoon, Earnest Hemingway outlined his?“Theory of Omission” or?“Iceberg Principle.”1 He states?:?If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.2In other words, it presents the story with simple sentences and dialogues and leaves a large space for readers to explore and reflect. It was just like the iceberg, which had only one eighth part on the water and seven eighths part under the water.B. The Main Plot of The Old Man and the SeaThe Old Man and the Sea is a masterpiece of Earnest Hemingway. Its main plot is that Santiago is an old Cuban fisherman living by fishing. Life has not been easy. He has caught no fish at all for 84 days continuously. In the beginning, he has the company of a little boy out in the sea, because of his bad luck and defeat the boy is forced by his parents to leave and go out to the sea with other fishermen. So Santiago went out alone, in his single skiff, to catch wind and eventually, he caught a gigantic marlin through three days and nights’ struggle. But, unfortunately, on his way home with marlin, he met a shoal of sharks, he fought with them, however, there were more sharks and