Name:
Gohil Beenaba s
paper:
Americal literature
Subject:
Parable and allagory in old man an the sea.
Roll
no: 13
Email
id:binagohil1995@gmail.com
Introduction
Here
we are going to discuss what isparable and what is allegory and how its
work in Old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway. As we all know that
Hamingway is a renowned writer in American literature and his book Old
man and the sea is Nobel prise winner book. So that here we tries to
find out this both parable and allegory and how its work in old man and
the sea.
"What
is a parable?"
A
parable is, literally, something “cast alongside” something else.
Jesus’ parables were stories that were “cast alongside” a truth
in order to illustrate that truth. His parables were teaching aids
and can be thought of as extended analogies or inspired comparisons.
A common description of a parable is that it is an earthly story with
a heavenly meaning.
| 1. Parable of human struggle / heroism / heroic impulse |
2.
Parable of Youth and age:
|
3.
Parable of Christianity and Christ
|
4.
Parable of artists struggle with art
|
5.
Parable of personal experience
|
·
A
parable is one of the simplest of
narratives.
It sketches a
setting,
describes an
action,
and shows the
results.
It often involves a character facing a
moral
dilemma,
or making a questionable
decision
and
then suffering the
consequences.
As with a
fable,
a parable generally relates a single, simple, consistent action,
without extraneous detail or distracting circumstances.
Hemingway's
novel emphasize on what men cannot do,and the world's limitations
,crualities or builtin evil.hemingway's figure are oftan religious
but their religion is peripheral rather than central to their lives.
| youth | old |
|---|---|
|
·
Youth
has belief in hard work and luck….
·
Youth
is looking forward towards future with aspiration and ambition…
|
·
Old
has created disbelief in hard work and luck…
·
Old
is looking backward – to its past exploits and adventures…
(arm-wrestling; dreams of lions)
·
·
Old
man thinks he is salao
– the
worst form of unlucky.
|
·
The
mother returns almost from the verge of death in giving birth to a
child – similarly, the creative artist dies several deaths in
creating a work of literature…
·
He
has mammoth task to convert the brazen world of reality into golden
world with the power of his imagination.
·
Old
man is an artist – his mastery in fishing skills represents
artist’s mastery…
·
His
struggle with sea and fish – the natural objects is – artist’s
struggle with life experiences, and the emotions and feelings
affected by such experiences…
·
His
‘going too far’ is – artist’s exercising his imagination…
·
His
control over marlin – the beautiful, noble fish is – his creation
– beautiful and noble…
The
importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise
a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables
are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings which we can
confidently ascribe to the historical Jesus; they are, for the most
part, authentic words of Jesus. Moreover, all of the great themes of
Jesus' preaching are struck in the parables.Jesus' parables are short
stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson by analogy or
similarity. They are often stories based on the agricultural life
that was intimately familiar to His original first century audience.
Some aspect of an unfamiliar concept, such as the kingdom of God, was
compared to something from everyday life that could easily be
understood.
The Parable of the Sower
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Allegory
As
a literary
device, an allegory
in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.
Allegory
has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art,
largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts
in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers,
or listeners.
Writers
or speakers typically use allegories as literary
devices or as rhetorical
devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic
figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the
moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.Plato's Allegory of the Cave,
George Orwell – Animal Farm:
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter:
The old Man and
sea’denotes moral and religious ideas before reader. This novel is
the best example of parable. We can not ignore the hidden
meaning of ‘the old and the sea’. At first the novel seems about
the sea, fishermen and fish.
The
giant marlin stands for a distant goal of life for human being. The
journey towards the goal causes much distress and much pain. His
wounded hands symbolize the rebuffs suffered by a man in the course
of his efforts. The long and strong resistance shows that it is easy
to get high ideals of life. The old man wins a victory over the
marline by means of will power, technique and strategy. The memories,
the thoughts of Dimaggio and manolin, African beaches and his own
wrestling defeating a Negro have symbolic significance. All these
represent that man is ever alone but he has to fight the battle of
life alone: As the old man is alone he has not caught any fish
for 84 days. He is still hope full and optimist. He behaves in his
own abilities. He thinks that eighty five is the lucky number. He
knows that he is not strong for fishing. But he believes in his own
tricks and resolution. He never thinks about dreams or defeat. He
dreams of youth and lions. In the worst moments of misery, he
remembers his heroic fight against the Negro. He looks for spiritual
help and promises to say “our fathers and “Hail Mary’s”.
Several times he also invokes the help of Virgin. He remembers his
heroic fight against the Negro in the moment of his own suffering.
There
is a close parallel between Santiago, his Marlin, and the sharks on
the one hand, and Hemingway, his fiction, and the critics on the
other. According to Mark Scholar, this novel is not only a
moral fable but a parable:
“It
is an old man catching a fish, yes: but it is also a great artist in
the act of mastering his subject a fish, yes; but it is also a
great artist in the act of mastering his subject, and more than that
of actually writing about the struggle. Nothing is more
important than his craft, and it is beloved; but because it must be
struggled with and mastered, it is also a foe I enemy to all self –
indulgence, to all looseness of feeling, all laxness of style, all
soft pomposities.”
Difference
between allagory,fable and perable:
In
this chart this green colour stands for allgory and orrange is for
perable and the thirdon yellow is for fable. Fable is use for animle
as a characters nd perable is for humans as character. This is the
major difference between fable and prable. Where as allagory includes
both fable and perable as well.
This is all about allgory
fable in the old man and the sea frommy side.ss
Introduction
Here
we are going to discuss wht id parable and wht id allgory and how its
work in Old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway. As we all know that
Hamingway is a renowed writer in American literatureand his book Old
man andthe sea is Nobel prise wiiner book. So that here we tries to
find uot this both parableandallagory and how itswork in old man and
the sea.
"What
is a parable?"
A
parable is, literally, something “cast alongside” something else.
Jesus’ parables were stories that were “cast alongside” a truth
in order to illustrate that truth. His parables were teaching aids
and can be thought of as extended analogies or inspired comparisons.
A common description of a parable is that it is an earthly story with
a heavenly meaning.
| 1. Parable of human struggle / heroism / heroic impulse |
2.
Parable of Youth and age:
|
3.
Parable of Christianity and Christ
|
4.
Parable of artists struggle with art
|
5.
Parable of personal experience
|
·
A
parable is one of the simplest of
narratives.
It sketches a
setting,
describes an
action,
and shows the
results.
It often involves a character facing a
moral
dilemma,
or making a questionable
decision
and
then suffering the
consequences.
As with a
fable,
a parable generally relates a single, simple, consistent action,
without extraneous detail or distracting circumstances.
Hemingway's
novel emphisize on what men cannot do,and the world's limitations
,crualities or builtin evil.hemingway's figure are oftan religious
but their religion is peripheral rather than central to their lives.
| youth | old |
|---|---|
|
·
Youth
has belief in hard work and luck….
·
Youth
is looking forward towards future with aspiration and ambition…
|
·
Old
has created disbelief in hard work and luck…
·
Old
is looking backward – to its past exploits and adventures…
(arm-wrestling; dreams of lions)
·
·
Old
man thinks he is salao
– the
worst form of unlucky.
|
·
The
mother returns almost from the verge of death in giving birth to a
child – similarly, the creative artist dies several deaths in
creating a work of literature…
·
He
has mammoth task to convert the brazen world of reality into golden
world with the power of his imagination.
·
Old
man is an artist – his mastery in fishing skills represents
artist’s mastery…
·
His
struggle with sea and fish – the natural objects is – artist’s
struggle with life experiences, and the emotions and feelings
affected by such experiences…
·
His
‘going too far’ is – artist’s exercising his imagination…
·
His
control over marlin – the beautiful, noble fish is – his creation
– beautiful and noble…
The
importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise
a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables
are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings which we can
confidently ascribe to the historical Jesus; they are, for the most
part, authentic words of Jesus. Moreover, all of the great themes of
Jesus' preaching are struck in the parables.Jesus' parables are short
stories that teach a moral or spiritual lesson by analogy or
similarity. They are often stories based on the agricultural life
that was intimately familiar to His original first century audience.
Some aspect of an unfamiliar concept, such as the kingdom of God, was
compared to something from everyday life that could easily be
understood.
The Parable of the Sower
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Allegory
As
a literary
device, an allegory
in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.
Allegory
has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art,
largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts
in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers,
or listeners.
Writers
or speakers typically use allegories as literary
devices or as rhetorical
devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic
figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the
moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey.Plato's Allegory of the Cave,
George Orwell – Animal Farm:
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter:
The old Man and
sea’denotes moral and religious ideas before reader. This novel is
the best example of parable. We can not ignore the hidden
meaning of ‘the old and the sea’. At first the novel seems about
the sea, fishermen and fish.
The
giant marlin stands for a distant goal of life for human being. The
journey towards the goal causes much distress and much pain. His
wounded hands symbolize the rebuffs suffered by a man in the course
of his efforts. The long and strong resistance shows that it is easy
to get high ideals of life. The old man wins a victory over the
marline by means of will power, technique and strategy. The memories,
the thoughts of Dimaggio and manolin, African beaches and his own
wrestling defeating a Negro have symbolic significance. All these
represent that man is ever alone but he has to fight the battle of
life alone: As the old man is alone he has not caught any fish
for 84 days. He is still hope full and optimist. He behaves in his
own abilities. He thinks that eighty five is the lucky number. He
knows that he is not strong for fishing. But he believes in his own
tricks and resolution. He never thinks about dreams or defeat. He
dreams of youth and lions. In the worst moments of misery, he
remembers his heroic fight against the Negro. He looks for spiritual
help and promises to say “our fathers and “Hail Mary’s”.
Several times he also invokes the help of Virgin. He remembers his
heroic fight against the Negro in the moment of his own suffering.
There
is a close parallel between Santiago, his Marlin, and the sharks on
the one hand, and Hemingway, his fiction, and the critics on the
other. According to Mark Scholar, this novel is not only a
moral fable but a parable:
“It
is an old man catching a fish, yes: but it is also a great artist in
the act of mastering his subject a fish, yes; but it is also a
great artist in the act of mastering his subject, and more than that
of actually writing about the struggle. Nothing is more
important than his craft, and it is beloved; but because it must be
struggled with and mastered, it is also a foe I enemy to all self –
indulgence, to all looseness of feeling, all laxness of style, all
soft pomposities.”
Difference
between allagory,fable and perable:
In
this chart this green colour stands for allgory and orrange is for
perable and the thirdon yellow is for fable. Fable is use for animle
as a characters nd perable is for humans as character. This is the
major difference between fable and prable. Where as allagory includes
both fable and perable as well.
This is all about allgory
fable in the old man and the sea frommy side.ss
