《On Hemingway’s Ecological Consciousness Reflected in The Old Man and the Sea》.docVIP

On Hemingway’s Ecological Consciousness Reflected in The Old Man and the Sea A Thesis Submitted to Xingtan College Qufu Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to all who helped me during the writing of this thesis. First of all, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Liu Ping, for her constant and instructive advice, her encouragement and guidance. She has walked me through all the stages of writing this thesis. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form. I also owe a special debt of gratitude to professor Sun Huaxiang, whose profound knowledge of literature triggers my love for this field and whose earnest attitude tells me how to learn literature. My sincere gratitude also goes to all the teachers in Foreign Languages Institute, from whose devoted teaching and enlightening lectures, I have benefited a lot and academically prepared for the thesis. I also give my hearty thanks to all my classmates who have offered general help and useful suggestions in the process of writing this thesis. Finally, I would like to express my appreciation to all the writers whose works have been referred to in this thesis.摘 要海明威的代表作《老人与海》自出版以来便赢得了广泛的赞誉和评论家们的关注。而纵观专家学者们聚焦的研究内容主要集中于颂扬主人公圣地亚哥的硬汉形象，大海和鱼的象征意义，古希腊的悲剧色彩，以及冰山原则，完全忽视了以海为自然代表的生态意识问题。然而近年来由于生态环境的不断恶化，生态问题开始受到人们的关注。很多人开始从生态角度解读一些文学作品，所以本文拟从生态文学批评的角度通过对《老人与海》中主人公一系列言行和心理活动的描述，探寻作者试图表达的生态意识，以便引导人们充分认识自然在这个世界中的地位，倡导人类与非人类的和谐共存，尊重保护自然界的生态平衡。 关键词：海明威；《老人与海》；圣地亚哥；生态意识ABSTRACTSince its publication, Hemingway’s representative work The Old Man and the Sea has won worldwide reputation and attracted critics’ attention. However, researchers and scholars mainly focused on the Santiago’s image as a tough man, the symbolic meaning of the sea and fish, the ancient Greek tragedy, the iceberg principle and completely ignored the ecological consci