This is the life creed of the old people. He faced failure and even death, showing fearless courage and the fighting spirit of a tough guy. He showed the most precious spiritual strength of mankind. In this sense, this is the enterprising spirit of mankind. ?
The Old Man and the Sea is the masterpiece of Hemingway, a famous modern American novelist, who won Nobel Prize in Literature. The ideological content of the novel is very complicated, and its dominant ideological side is to affirm people's enterprising spirit and tenacious character.
This work revolves around the story of an old Cuban fisherman fighting a huge marlin in the Gulf Stream off the coast.
Although Hemingway's old man is tragic, he has the characteristics of Nietzsche's superman, accepting failure and facing death bravely. These "tough guys" embody Hemingway's philosophy of life and moral ideal, that is, the fighter spirit and positive and optimistic attitude towards life that human beings will never bow to fate and never give up.
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The old man paid a heavy price for every victory and was finally irretrievably defeated. However, in another sense, he is a winner. Because he didn't give in to fate, he fought bravely with his courage, perseverance and wisdom no matter how hard the environment was.
Although marlin didn't keep it, it defended "the dignity of human soul" and showed "how far one can go". He is a successful loser and a failed hero. Such a "tough guy" image is a typical Hemingway novel character.
Hemingway created a series of "tough guys" images in his works. Most of them are boxers, matadors, fishermen, hunters, soldiers and other low-level figures. They live in poverty and suffer setbacks repeatedly, but they always maintain vigorous vitality and strong willpower, and always maintain human dignity and courage.
In them, they have indomitable, firm and tenacious, fearless in the face of violence and death, and unyielding in adversity.
As Sean O'Flynn said, the theme of "For whom the bell tolls" is "humanity, human efforts and struggles, human pursuit and pain, human belief and struggle, human stubbornness and value, human wisdom and destiny, human courage and boldness, human dignity and soul." Even if you fail, you should be frank and open, without losing your "grace."
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