Great Archetypal Contents in A Short Literary Work: The Old Man and The Sea
- DOI
- 10.2991/icss-18.2018.281How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- archetypes, archetypal images, archetypal myths, literary work
- Abstract
Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea is one of great literary works in the type of prose. It has great interesting contents to read, to analyze and to learn. By close reading and relates it into the theory of archetypes, the finding about archetypal contents is found. There are two archetypes found; archetypal images and archetypal myths. Archetypal images such as; Character; the old man shows the guidance, the old man and the little boy shows binary opposition. Place; sea shows the blessing of God to the old man. Nature; moon represents a lady who takes care of him as his wife. Animal; fish shows the survival life, lion shows the old man’s pride when getting the marlin as his achievement. Part of body; the old man’s eyes show his honesty. Color; blue shows positive attitude and thought belong to old man and he trusts himself to be a fisherman. Dream; foreshadows the old man’s next day to be proud of getting big marlin. Archetypal myths are shown by the archetypal hero and the journey. The old man as a hero who passes the impossible task through fighting and difficult struggle and finally he is saved and back with pride. This paper shows great archetypal contents in a short literary work
- Copyright
- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Sri Winarsih AU - Marni Bawawa AU - Margaretha Febriany Narahawarin AU - Agus Kichi Hermansyah AU - Adi Sumarsono PY - 2018/10 DA - 2018/10 TI - Great Archetypal Contents in A Short Literary Work: The Old Man and The Sea BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1333 EP - 1336 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icss-18.2018.281 DO - 10.2991/icss-18.2018.281 ID - Winarsih2018/10 ER -