《老人與海》的悲劇色彩-對完美主義的質(zhì)疑

The Tragic Color of The Old Man and the Sea:Challenge to the Perfectionism

Contents

Abstract...........................................................................................................................I
Key Words.......................................................................................................................I
摘要…………………………………………………………………………………...II
關(guān)鍵詞…………………………………………………………………………….......II
Introduction…………………………………………………………………….……...1
I. Background……………………………………………………….…..…………......3
A. The Author——Earnest Hemingway…................................................................3
B. The Medium-Length Novel…………….……………………..………………3
1. Summary……………………………..………………………………………3
2. The Social Background of This Work……………..………..………………..4
II. The Tragic Color in The Old Man and the Sea..........................................................5
A. Definition of the Tragic Color………………..………….…………...…..…...5
B. Tragic Color Represented in the Novel……………………………………….5
1. Titanic Fish’s Tragedy………………………………………………………..6
2. The Old Man’s Tragedy………………………………………………………6
III. Perfectionism……………………………………………………………...….........7
A. Definition……………………………………………………………………...7
B. Santiago’s and Hemingway’s Perfectionism…...................................................8
1. Santiago’s Perfectionism.…………………………………………………….8
2. Hemingway’s Perfectionism………………………………………………….9
3. Sum up……….……………………………………………………………...10
C. Dealing with Perfectionism…………………………………………………..11
1. Comprehension of the Imperfection………………………………………..11
2. Learning to Abnegate………………………………………………………12
Conclusion……………………………………………………………….……….…..14
Acknowledgements…………………………………………….………………..…...15
Bibliography……………………………………………………………….…...…….16

Abstract

Through ages, human beings have always been in pursuit of the perfection of everything. Not all things, however, are perfect in the world. Both Hemingway and Santiago, the hero in his famous work The Old Man and the Sea are perfectionists. In their daily lives, perfectionists have endless sadness since they always demand more and more. When a person wants more and his present situation could not satisfy him, he is bound to involve in a strange circle, which will make his mentality full of contradictories. It is uneasy for him to let himself ......
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