The Iceberg Theory in The Old Man and the Sea 冰山理论与老人与海.doc

冰山理论与《老人与海》 The Iceberg Theory in The Old Man and the Sea 摘 要 作为20世纪最有影响力的作家，海明威开创了新一代的写作风格，他以其独特的创作风格而誉满全球。因此，冰山理论吸引了许多读者和评论家的眼球。言及《老人与海》，纵人皆知老人是个硬汉子，但人们有时忽略作者是如何表达他的特点的。 在本文中,我将首先介绍《老人与与海》作者海明威和小说的情节和简单的背景介绍，然后探讨冰山理论的定义，再者从四个观点论述其隐藏的深刻思想和丰富的人物感情及其部分情节的隐含意义,包括精妙的叙事技巧，简洁含蓄的语言，电报式的对话和象征手法。海明威行文看似相当简单，但是，另一方面,海明威的作品的主题是象征性的意义,并且提供充足的余地赋予他的作品与象征意义,基督教象征意义在他的作品中应用比较明显。通过讨论,读者可以更加从细节上了解冰山理论和作品《老人与海》。 关键词: 冰山理论； 老人；隐含意义；直接；象征主义 Abstract As one of the most influential American writers in the 20th century, Hemingway pioneered a generation of writing style. He is famous for his unique writing styleiceberg theory which interests?many?readers?and?critics?in?the?world. Talked about The Old Man and the Sea many people know the old man is a tough guy, but they sometimes neglect how the writer describe it In this paper, the author firstly introduces the writer and background and the plot of the famous novel The Old Man and the Sea and then the definition of Hemingway’s iceberg theory. Later, I will discuss the theory from the implicit theme and character’s deep passion; it is obvious that Hemingway’s style is seemingly rather simple and direct from four points: narrative technique, concise language style, telegraphic dialogue and symbolism. On the other hand, the theme of Hemingway’s works is symbolic and provides much room for thinking．Hemingway endowed his works with symbolic meanings by using the metaphors．Also ,meanings of Christian symbolism are obvious in his works． Through discussion, reader can understand the old man in detail from deeper towards iceberg theory and the novel． Key words：Iceberg theory, Old man, Implicit meaning, Direct, Symbolism Contents TOC \o 1-3 \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l _Toc Chapter1 Introduction 1 HYPERLINK \l _Toc 1.1 About the writer 1 HYPERLINK \l _Toc 1.2 About the plot of the story 1 HYPERLINK \l _Toc Chapter2 Definition of the iceberg theory 3 HYPERLINK \l _Toc Chapter3 Iceberg usage in The Old Man and the Sea 5 HYPERLINK \l _Toc 3.1 The