《老人与海》之人与自然 --毕业论文.doc

【标题】《老人与海》之人与自然 【作者】罗丽娜 【关键词】人与自然；和谐；冲突 【指导老师】许奋荣 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA. A Brief Introduction to the AuthorErnest Hemingway, an American writer of novels and short stories, was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Chicago. Hemingway, as one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth century, began his writing career for The Kansas City Star in 1917. With the appearance of The Sun Also Rise in 1926, Hemingway became the voice of?“lost generation”. His narratives frequently contain masculine motifs, such as bull-fighting Death in the Afternoon, hunting The Green Hills of Africa, war A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and fishing The Old Man and the Sea. All of these motifs derive from Hemingway’s own experiences as a traveler and an adventurer. In 1961, he died, by suicide, in Ketchum.B. Background and Synopsis of the WorkThe Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951and published in 1952. It is Hemingway’s masterpiece, and it is also a classical works in the history of literature. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. In The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway presents old age facing life and death with courage, hope, and wisdom. For all its apparent simplicity it is a work of consummate art. The old Man and the Sea as Hemingway’s most popular work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The old Man and the Sea recounts an epic battle between an old, experienced fisherman and a giant marlin said to be the largest catch of his life. There’s no complicated plot, but it indicated a lot. Hemingway has said?“I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things”.1? It’s an aesthetic work; the key point is that the author endowed it deep soul, pushed readers to ponder it over. The novel The Old M