AN ANALYSIS OF SYMBOLISM IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S "THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA"
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Ernest Hemingway, symbolism, The Old Man and the Sea, literary analysis, American literature, modernism, allegory, iceberg theoryAbstract
In this article, we are shown a very detailed literary analysis of the symbolism in Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea", considering the many-sided symbolic aspects that make up the work's long-lasting literary importance. A qualitative methodology has been applied which is close textual reading and comparative analysis of existing scholarly interpretations, through which the research has discovered the main symbolic elements such as the marlin, the sea, the lions, and Santiago's character. The results prove that the symbolic structure of the novella works on several levels of interpretation which are religious, existential, and naturalistic dimensions that all together claim the work to be a masterpiece of modernist literature. This research paper is contributing to the ongoing debate among scholars about Hemingway's literary techniques and at the same time it confirms the continued importance of symbolic analysis in the comprehension of the twentieth century American fiction.
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