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发布时间：2025年09月27日作者:aiycxz.cn

题目：论《老人与海》中的英雄主义学生姓名：陈娟学号： 200740820212院系：外国语学院专业：英语指导教师：张荣根二〇一一年五月# On Heroism in The Old Man and the SeaChen JuanUnder the Supervision ofZhang RonggenSubmitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of ArtsForeign Languages SchoolYangzhou UniversityMay 2011# AbstractErnest Hemingway is one of the most famous American writers in the 20th century. He is also a representative of the “Lost Generation”. His works are famous for the concise language and the profound meaning. *The Old Man and the Sea* is one of his masterpieces. It is a novella written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. It is the story about an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed. So conspicuously unlucky is he that the parents of his young devoted apprentice and friend, Manolin, have forced the boy to leave the old man in order to fish in a more prosperous boat. Nevertheless, the boy continues to care for the old man upon his return each night. He helps the old man tote his gear to his ramshackle hut, secures food for him, and discusses the latest developments in American baseball, especially the trials of the old man’s hero, Joe DiMaggio. Santiago is confident that his unproductive streak will soon come to an end, and he resolves to sail out farther than usual the following day.On the eighty-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago does as promised, sailing his skiff far beyond the island’s shallow coastal waters and venturing into the Gulf Stream. He prepares his lines and drops them. At noon, a big fish, which he knows is a marlin, takes the bait that Santiago has placed one hundred fathoms deep in the waters. The old man expertly hooks the fish, but he cannot pull it in. Instead, the fish begins to pull the boat.Unable to tie the line fast to the boat for fear the fish would snap a taut line, the old man bears the strain of the line with his shoulders, back, and hands, ready to give slack should the marlin make a run. The fish pulls the boat all through the day, through the night, through another day, and through another night. It swims steadily northwest until at last it tires and swims east with the current. The entire time, Santiago endures constant pain from the fishing line. Whenever the fish lunges, leaps, or makes a dash for freedom, the cord cuts him badly. Although wounded and weary, the old man feels a deep empathy and admiration for the marlin, his brother in suffering, strength, and resolve.On the third day the fish tires, and Santiago, sleep-deprived, aching, and nearly delirious, manages to pull the marlin in close enough to kill it with a harpoon thrust. Dead beside the skiff, the marlin is the largest Santiago has ever seen. He lashes it to his boat, raises the small mast, and sets sail for home. While Santiago is excited by the price that the marlin will bring at market, he is more concerned that the people who will eat the fish are unworthy of its greatness.As Santiago sails on with the fish, the marlin’s blood leaves a trail in the water and attracts sharks. The first to attack is a great make shark, which Santiago manages to slay with the harpoon. In the struggle, the old man loses the harpoon and lengths of valuable rope, which leaves him vulnerable to other shark attacks. Although he kills several sharks, more and more appear, and by the night of the second day, the sharks have devoured the marlin’s entire carcass, leaving only its head, spine and tail. Santiago knows that he is destroyed and tells the sharks of how they have killed his dreams. Once home, he slumps onto his bed and falls into a deep sleep.This paper will analyze the heroism in *The Old Man and the Sea*. It will be divided into four parts. The first part is a brief introduction to the author and the novel. The second part is about the definition of heroism. The third part is the main body of this paper. It will analyze the heroism in the novel from three aspects: the courage to face the hardship, the perseverance to fight against the hardship and the optimistic attitude towards the hardship. The last part is the conclusion of this paper.**Key words:** heroism, courage,