Old man and the Sea: Parable of Man's Struggle with Natural Forces

The "Old man and the sea" is about ‘life', which is the finest and most ambitious thing for a parable to be about. Hemingway has written about life: a struggle against the impossible odds of unconquerable natural forces in which-given such a fact as that of death-a man can only lose, but which he can dominate in such a way that his loss has a dignity, itself the victory.
Santiago is Hemingway's code hero who illustrates the values of life that Hemingway cherished and glorified all his life-courage, dignity, honour, conscientiousness, dedication, endurance. A man may grow old and be wholly down on his luck, but he can still dare, persist when he is defeated or thwarted, and thus by manner of his losing can win a victory. And the ‘rules' must not be lost sight of- the procedure, the technique, the craft, the skill. And this is applicable to life as a whole, to man's earthly existence, to the heavy odds which man......

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Title: Old Man And The Sea: Parable Of Man's Struggle With Natural Forces
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