wtwt5237
07-13-2007, 03:15 AM
I open this thread following the suggestion by Wilhelm. Please share your opinions on it, every idea is welcome. This is a quick quote of what we have previously talked about:
Ok WtWt5237, I'll give my view on the old man and the sea.
First, i guess you shouldn't be too obsessed with trying to grasp symbolic meanings etc. It's rather straight forward. The old man, as I see it, is just a man at the end of his life. It seems his glory days are more or less over. Still he refuses to give in. He battles his downfall ('death' if you want) in the form of the wild ocean and of course the marlin/fish. The struggle leads to personal success, but not to acknowledgement in society, because he is just not part of that society anymore. As I said, times have changed, his glory days are over. Nobody but the boy is aware of the battle he has fought.
That's basically it, I believe. There are images you could go into, like some biblical symbols, but this is not the place to do that.
If you want to take the discussion further, I would suggest to open a new thread, because we don't want to ruin this one.
Sometimes I feel that this novel is somehow a little to verbose(too long, I mean). Some materials seem to be kind of pointless. A shorter novel will still be able be present what the novel we have now presents. Your opinion?
PS:The biblical symbols you mentioned remind me of something else. In the movie Matrix, you may notice a car number which indicates something in the Bible. But why did the director put the scene there? It is kind of difficult to be noticed and impossible to convey its meaning to non-believers who do not know the relationship between the number and the Bibble.
Maybe its obscurity is due to that I am a Chinese and know little about Bibble. :confused:
Ok WtWt5237, I'll give my view on the old man and the sea.
First, i guess you shouldn't be too obsessed with trying to grasp symbolic meanings etc. It's rather straight forward. The old man, as I see it, is just a man at the end of his life. It seems his glory days are more or less over. Still he refuses to give in. He battles his downfall ('death' if you want) in the form of the wild ocean and of course the marlin/fish. The struggle leads to personal success, but not to acknowledgement in society, because he is just not part of that society anymore. As I said, times have changed, his glory days are over. Nobody but the boy is aware of the battle he has fought.
That's basically it, I believe. There are images you could go into, like some biblical symbols, but this is not the place to do that.
If you want to take the discussion further, I would suggest to open a new thread, because we don't want to ruin this one.
Sometimes I feel that this novel is somehow a little to verbose(too long, I mean). Some materials seem to be kind of pointless. A shorter novel will still be able be present what the novel we have now presents. Your opinion?
PS:The biblical symbols you mentioned remind me of something else. In the movie Matrix, you may notice a car number which indicates something in the Bible. But why did the director put the scene there? It is kind of difficult to be noticed and impossible to convey its meaning to non-believers who do not know the relationship between the number and the Bibble.
Maybe its obscurity is due to that I am a Chinese and know little about Bibble. :confused: