The Old Man And The Sea Introduction
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The Old Man and the Sea
An Introduction
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April 1936 – Esquire Magazine
On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter
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Planning as early as 1939
Written in Havana in 1951
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Historical Context
•The Cold War
•The Arms Race
•The Korean War
•Socio-economic change
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Socio-economic
Change
•Human Labour
•Connected to
nature
•Close community
•Code of honour
•Mechanised
•Environmentally
negligent
•Individualistic
•No code
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Santiago – ‘everyman’
•Culturally a Spaniard
•A journeyer in Africa
•A Cuban
•An American
(Old & New world)
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Santiago’s Struggle
•Age
•Poverty
•Loneliness
•Mortality
•Identity
•Luck & the battle with the fish
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Allegory
•Allegory is an extended
metaphor
•Its underlying meaning has
moral, social, religious, or
political significance.
•It therefore operates on 2
levels -literal and symbolic.
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Hemingway’s Style
•The sparse, simplistic language of the
reporter
•Repeated images allusions, actions &
themes
•Repeated sounds, rhythms &
sentence structures
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