My Topic Was American Dream in the "Old Man and The Sea". In the presentation, I described what is an American Dream and American Dream as a Myth or Reality? Than American Dream in Old man and the Sea and In Moby Dick By Herman Melvill. For Old man Marline is his American Dream which he wants to Achieve but in Moby Dick Ahab is Questioning the American Dream.
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American literanture
1. SMT S.B.Gradi Department of
English M.K.Bhavnagar University
Name : Ruchita Kankrecha
Roll No. : 29
Topic Name : American Dream
Paper Name : American Literature
Submitted To : Department of English
E-mail ID : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com
Enrollment No : 2069108420190024
2. Table of Content
• What is an American Dream?
• American Dream as a Myth or Reality?
• About Author Ernest Hemingway
• About the Novel “Old Man and The Sea”
• American Dream in The Old Man and The Sea
• American Dream in “Moby Dick” By Herman
Melville
• “Manjhi – The Mountain Man”
3. What is an American Dream?
• American Dream as an Idea of Perfection and
Development
• Belief that everyone can be successful in the America if
they work hard or struggle to gain something in the life
• Throughout History and even Today, American people
believes that, at some point at time America will be the
best to live
• Multicultural
• All the necessity that human want in their life
• “America as the Greatest Nation of the world”
• This Dream Beguns after American Independent
Movement
• Romantic Literature
4. American Dream as Myth or Reality
• There are some Critic or writer who break this
Idea
• American Dream is just an illusion Not Reality
• Just a Dream that is never fulfill
• Just an illusory concept
• If you want to build the nation, there is need for
a Dream
• Struggle and Skill – Important
5. James Adams
• Use the phrase “The American Dream” in his
1931 Book Epic Of America
• “But there has been also the America dream,
that dream of land in which life should be
better and richer and fuller for every man,
with opportunity for each according to his
ability or achievement”
6. About Author
• Ernest Hemingway
• An American Novelist,
Journalist, Short-Story
Writer
• Won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1954
• Published Seven Novels, six
short story collection and
Two Non Fictional works
• Share his experience and
his works and struggled a
lot in his life
7. Old Man and The Sea
• Novella – Published in
1952
• Tells the story of the
protagonist Character
Santiago
• Cuba Fisherman who
struggles with giant
Marline
• Manolin – Santiago’s
Past self
8. American Dream in “Old Man and
The Sea”
• The Marlin Signifies
American Dream Concept
• Marline is the American
Dream which Old man wants
to achieve
• Hope which embodies the
American Dream which
Exemplified by Marline
• Old man is constantly in a
hope in achieving the
American Dream
• In the hope of developing
himself and better everyday
• Marline become American
Dream for Old Man
9. American Dream Idea in “MOBY
DIKE”
• Herman Melville telling the
same story
• He is questioning the idea
of American Dream in his
novel
• Captain Ahab fighting with
Moby Dick
• No in hoping the catch the
fish
• He wants to defeat Moby
Dike
• Revenge motifs in the novel
10. • When novel or the text
tries to question the
particular ideas they
will always have
revenge motif and
someone who resist
against this idea
• Believing the existential
crisis rather than
existentialism
11. Conclusion
• The American Dream Concept is just an illusion
• It becomes the Ideal Kind of situation where you
want to be country perfect
• So Marlin become the ideal catch for the Old
Man
• American dream is principle which expline the
idea of Perfection
