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Name :- Praful GhreniyaRoll no :- 20Sem:-3Paper no :- (10) American literature.Title:-Exaplation OF The scarlet letter theme and the old Man and the sea in symbolEmail Id:- [email protected] to department of English Maharaja krishnakumarsinghji university.
The old man and the sea
Earnest Hemingway This novella awarded
the Pulitzer prize for fiction in (1953)
Symbols in the novella
symbol
Lion The Marlin
The sea
The skiff
The mast
Joe Di Maggio
The old man
Menolin
The harpoon
What is symbolism?
“Symbolism is the use of symbols to
signify ideas and qualities by giving them
symbolic meanings that
are different from their literal sense
The Lion Symbol of youth ,
freedom,strength The olds man
The passion
Power
freedom
The Sea The sea present the
universe and Sentiago’s isolation in the universe
The sea represent challenge and endless nature
The old man (Sentiago)
In the novella the old man eye’s blue color represented the color of sea
Old age, wrinkled skin symbolized human fate raised to level of suffering by comic process
Old man’s struggle compared with JESUS CHRIST
“fish, I will stay with u untill I died
Every day is new day
Symbolically represent the end of life Santiago represents a noble and tragic
individualism universe what man can do in an indifferent unlevered which defeats him and the love he can feel for such a universe and his humality before it Hemingway has been increasingly concerned with the relationship between individualism and interdepenence
•MENOLIN
The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him
Manolin is the symbol of hope
The skiff, the mast, the harpoon The Skiff: symbol of
Santiago himself Skiff has to struggle in sea
The mast: symbol of cross of JESUS
The Harpoon: the last of harpoon Is symbol of loss of power,strenght,pride
JOE DI DIMAGGO Santiago see Joe as an
equal heroic character
Symbolizes the indomitable will of the human sprite
Joe also represent hope that old man has for Manolin
The scarlet letter Written by Nathaniel
Hawthorne Published on 1850 He was born on 1804 He died on1864 Short story writer and
novelist Inspired by puritan
thought
Theme The theme of the novel belongs to the
puritan age Adultery is the theme of this novel Meaning of A Hester had to wear red A on her bosom
which stands for Adulteress She was forced to live isolated life with
Pearl Hester changed the meaning of A
ADULTERY ANGEL ANGEL
POLITICAS OF A
A LETTER A STAND FOR
Letter A as adultery Letter A as able Letter A as angel
Beginning of the novel in ‘ADULTERY
Middle of the novel in ’able
End of the novel angel
SIN
CRIME
PUNISHMENT
Theme of sin ,crime punishment
Much of his work focused on the theme of
sin and was based in the Puritan time period.
Sin was the central focus of many stories, traits of many
Represents sin. Daughter of Hester and Dimmesdale.Hester’s painful penance of her adultery but beautiful joy of her life.haracters, and hidden twist behind endings