摘要
As the hero in Ernest Hemingway's greatest masterpiece,The Old Man and the Sea,Santiago has always been considered as a perfect example of Hemingway's stoical protagonists.Being one of the classic characters in the American literature,Santiago is noticed for his strength,wisdom,bravery,and above all,his unsurpassed endurance.Even though the prototype of Santia go in reality,as Hemingway once revealed in an interview,is an old Cuban fisherman who told him about his experience of catching a large marlin and losing it to the sharks in 1935[海],the spiritual prototype of the old man has been best interpreted in the Greek Mythology.To be more precise,Santiago's spiritual prototype is the combination of Atlas,Prometheus and Sisyphus.
As the hero in Ernest Hemingway’s greatest masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago has always been consid-ered as a perfect example of Hemingway’s stoical protagonists. Being one of the classic characters in the American literature, San-tiago is noticed for his strength, wisdom, bravery, and above all, his unsurpassed endurance. Even though the prototype of Santia-go in reality, as Hemingway once revealed in an interview, is an old Cuban fisherman who told him about his experience of catching a large marlin and losing it to the sharks in 1935[海], the spiritual prototype of the old man has been best interpreted in the Greek Mythology. To be more precise, Santiago’s spiritual prototype is the combination of Atlas, Prometheus and Sisyphus.
出处
《海外英语》
2013年第15期196-197,共2页
Overseas English
