When we read these two books, Walden and The Old Man and The Sea, we are able to realize the importance of dignity for Thoreau and Santiago, the main character of The Old Man and The Sea. I will consider what their dignity is and how they get dignity. Santiago and Thoreau seem to live for their dignity and they act to protect their dignity. Dignity becomes their core. If it be so, for Santiago, what is the dignity? It seems that his dignity is being a fisherman. He has a pride as a fisherman but he is not proud of fishing a large amount of fishes and he is not proud of earning big money by fishing. He engages fishing as a fisherman. He stakes his life on fighting with fishes.
Hemingway describes Santiago’s body in detail so that the readers …show more content…
And by being scraped his life, he keep him alive. Death and life sound completely opposite, however, I think that both are close in this novel. In the scene that Santiago kills the marlin, Hemingway describe that scene beautifully: “Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty”(72). As the marlin closes with the death, Santiago also closes with the death. So I consider that Hemingway wants to write Santiago’s power and beauty, that means his dignity, through his fight too. Santiago and the marlin give and take their life. This work is Santiago’s work as a fisherman. Being a fisherman supports his life. Thoreau also thinks his dignity is what he is. But he is not a fighter like Santiago. He experiments on his life. He searches for the truth and his way to live so that he can be a person what he wants to be.
Thoreau recommends people to find their selves too. Everyone seems to know what they are. However, Thoreau states that “We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, the first person that is speaking” (45). We use the word I without thinking deeply. Therefore, we forget what I am without noticing. Because of this blindness, they are not able to recognize their situation. Even if they are suffering from burden, they believes that work is their fatal duty. Furthermore, they believe the burden produces them rich …show more content…
His statement, “it rides upon us”, sounds strange, however, we are able to understand that is true. This is a shock therapy. He change appearance into reality by using this therapy. Thoreau tries to wake his neighbors through this therapy and he breaks common sense that shut him into despair. He often uses paradox in the book. That is the way of his thinking and the way he protects his dignity. Self-emancipation is the most important thing to get his dignity. However, he cannot get the dignity in the civilized life. This is because the civilized life hides the primordial forms of life and change a man into a machine or slave. Rather, he chooses to get along with the nature and learns the essence for his life.
At first, he considers that the necessary things is heat. Thoreau talks that “the expression, animal life, is nearly synonymous with the expression, animal heat” (55) and the necessity for a man is clothing, shelter and food. Thoreau says, our clothes is our epidermis which is not a part of our life. Thus we must worry about only its utility not novelty nor opinion of men. In this novel, Thoreau compares civilized life and savage’s life many times. When he talks about the shelter, he mentions about the houses that Yankees and Indians
Hemingway describes Santiago’s body in detail so that the readers …show more content…
And by being scraped his life, he keep him alive. Death and life sound completely opposite, however, I think that both are close in this novel. In the scene that Santiago kills the marlin, Hemingway describe that scene beautifully: “Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty”(72). As the marlin closes with the death, Santiago also closes with the death. So I consider that Hemingway wants to write Santiago’s power and beauty, that means his dignity, through his fight too. Santiago and the marlin give and take their life. This work is Santiago’s work as a fisherman. Being a fisherman supports his life. Thoreau also thinks his dignity is what he is. But he is not a fighter like Santiago. He experiments on his life. He searches for the truth and his way to live so that he can be a person what he wants to be.
Thoreau recommends people to find their selves too. Everyone seems to know what they are. However, Thoreau states that “We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, the first person that is speaking” (45). We use the word I without thinking deeply. Therefore, we forget what I am without noticing. Because of this blindness, they are not able to recognize their situation. Even if they are suffering from burden, they believes that work is their fatal duty. Furthermore, they believe the burden produces them rich …show more content…
His statement, “it rides upon us”, sounds strange, however, we are able to understand that is true. This is a shock therapy. He change appearance into reality by using this therapy. Thoreau tries to wake his neighbors through this therapy and he breaks common sense that shut him into despair. He often uses paradox in the book. That is the way of his thinking and the way he protects his dignity. Self-emancipation is the most important thing to get his dignity. However, he cannot get the dignity in the civilized life. This is because the civilized life hides the primordial forms of life and change a man into a machine or slave. Rather, he chooses to get along with the nature and learns the essence for his life.
At first, he considers that the necessary things is heat. Thoreau talks that “the expression, animal life, is nearly synonymous with the expression, animal heat” (55) and the necessity for a man is clothing, shelter and food. Thoreau says, our clothes is our epidermis which is not a part of our life. Thus we must worry about only its utility not novelty nor opinion of men. In this novel, Thoreau compares civilized life and savage’s life many times. When he talks about the shelter, he mentions about the houses that Yankees and Indians