Essays on The Old Man and The Sea
The use of a tragic hero for character development is a common literary device used by authors. The Old Man and The Sea by Earnest Hemmingway and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare both explore the theme of the tragic hero and use this theme for character development. “In literature, a tragic hero is someone...
Ernst Hemingway’s, The Old Man and the Sea is a short story about an old man, Santiago, who has an unlucky streak of going out to sea and coming back empty-handed. His apprentice, Manolin, was forced by his family to leave Santiago. With people avoiding him and his follower being forced to leave him, Santiago...
One of the bookish resolutions that I took in 2018 was to read 10 classics. My progress wasn’t noteworthy but I am determined to change it in the coming years. I picked up The Old Man and the Sea because I am participating in an Instagram readathon in which the prompt was to read a...
