A DEEP ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
A DEEP ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Author(s): Dimitrie Andrei BorcanSubject(s): Novel, Philology, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: deep ecology; animism; anthropomorphism; theriomorphism;
Summary/Abstract: This ecocritical approach to The Old Man and the Sea analyses such aspects of the novel as Santiago’s anthropomorphizing of fauna and the sea, and his animistical view of reality, as well as his deep ecological outlook on human and fauna (including fish, cocks, lions) and his practical naïve religion, as well as his equating of defeat and victory, and admitting the sin of pride or the mistake of impracticality as the source of his defeat.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 638-642
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English