On Hemingway’s Ecological Ethic in The Old Man and the Sea

Abstract

Ernest Hemingway, a famous American writer and Nobel Prize winner, is a great writer with deep ecological ethic. With the perspective of modern scientific ecological view, this paper try to prove that Hemingway embodied his strong ecological ethic in his famous work The Old Man and the Sea by analyzing the description of the old man Santiago’s simple life, the beauty of sea, Santiago’s unity with all the sea creatures and the love and respect of the sea creatures. It also points out that The Old Man and the Sea reflects Hemingway’s awareness of ecological protection.