《老人与海》的悲剧色彩:对完美主义的质疑 [6]
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关键词:tragic colorperfectionperfectionismHemingwaySantiago悲剧色彩完美完美主义海明威圣地亚哥
plan a high standard for themselves and try their best to achieve it, if they failed, they will feel so sad and hard to accept the result. This could explain why perfectionists are easy to involve in depression, once they fall into the sadness, they also can not make them catch up again.
B. Santiago’s and Hemingway’s Perfectionism
Santiago and Hemingway both belong to the same kind of people with a character which been called perfectionism. From the old man’s characteristic in The Old Man and the Sea, the author of the thesis could catch a glimpse of Hemingway.
1. Santiago’s Perfectionism
In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, the old man’s eagerness to prove his capability is the best evidence which could prove the old man’s perfectionism. He has gone for 84 days without catching anything. His code man’s character leads him to prove he can catch giant fish. He has ever said to Mandolin that he is a strange man and different from other fisherman. In the story, the old man always hopes his outsized dream could satisfy himself and other people. His outsized dream is that one day he will catch giant fish to prove his ability. In order to catch giant fish, he has to choose to sail into the deep sea, but that is out of his capability, in the end of the story even he has got giant fish, his rough tools made his giant fish could not return safely to his shore for the deep sea is dangerous and full with obstacles. The old man should consider these obstacles before sailing but as a perfectionist he only pays more attention to prove his capability. So his achievement is destroyed by sharks again and again, and only leaves that giant fish’s skeleton. At last, Santiago recognizes he is still a loser, he feels sad but no one understands him. All of his sadness and loneliness is caused by his perfectionism.
Meanwhile, Santiago is a self-contradictory man, the miracle sea is dangerous, but he is a man loves sea very much, he even willing to regard sea as a woman, thinking that even if she do something imprudent or naughty, that’s because she can’t control herself, that’s not her fault; the old man loves the deep sea, but the sea destroyed his outsized dream indirectly; he also loves animals which live in the deep sea, the birds, fly fish and dolphins, he thinks they are all his friends which could company with him in the lonely sea; He feels happy when he saw all the sea animals live peacefully, but he has to struggle with the giant and beautiful fish; although he feels sad and regrettable for the giant fish, he still determines to kill it; he thinks marlin is beautiful and divine; however, he holds his spear and stabs into its body.
2. Hemingway’s Perfectionism
The Old Man and the Sea is always regarded as Hemingway’s biography. Hemingway’s own experiences made him become a perfectionist by degree..
Hemingway’s perfectionist’s life was greatly affected by his family. He was born in a contradictory family. His father, a successful physician, also committed suicide, enjoyed hunting and fishing. His mother, a musician, who wanted Hemingway could stay and study music and art in family. Hemingway’s parents wanted him become a perfectionist from his childhood education. Hemingway had a dream to be a strong and versatile man from his little age because of his family background. When he was a little boy, he went out frequently with his father, in the process, he developed a series of consideration about life and death, and meanwhile he learned such vi
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