- The document is a paper analyzing existentialism in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea". - It discusses how Hemingway presents ideas of existentialism like man's responsibility for his own actions and isolation. The old man Santiago embodies an existential struggle as he is alone on his fishing journey. - Santiago's isolated, repetitive struggle that ends in defeat represents man's meaningless struggle in an indifferent universe according to existentialist philosophy. The paper concludes that humans still suffer due to original sin despite dominion over creatures like fish.

1. “Existentialism in the Old man and the Sea”
• Name: Goswami Gayatri M.
• Roll no:8
• M.A. Semester: 3
• Paper no.:10 The American Literature
• Year: 2014-15
• PG Enrolment no: PG13101011
• Email ID: gayatrigoswami19@gmail.com
• Submitted to:
Department Of English
Smt. S. B. Gardi
M. K. Bhavnagar University
Dt.:2/10/2014

2. “What is Existentialism ?”
 Existentialism is a
philosophy which stresses the
importance of human
experience , and says that
everyone is responsible for
the result of their own action.

3. Hemingway As Existentialist
• Hemingway is existentially
empty and directionless ,
without family and without
distention
• Existentialism and Nihilism the
twin philosophy systems that
influenced Hemingway ‘s writing
• Hemingway’s Existential themes
also appear in his African stories

4. Introduction of the novella
• Hemingway ‘s novel bear witness
to the author's strange
preoccupation with death.
• This is life-likeness in his novel.
• The sea in the novel Represent
the life and Santiago's isolation in
the universe
• In this novel vital role of the
Santiago or old man
• Hemingway support to fidelity to
life

5. Old man / Santiago
Menolin

6. Existentialism in the novel
• First of all in this novel
Hemingway present idea of the
existentialism , Hemingway says
that man was most able to prove
himself worthy in isolation
• As per my point of view
existentialism is important part
of Santiago’s life
• It is also suggest existential
struggle within storyline

7. • Here Existence of man is understood
as a part of nature
• The man struggle is repetitive
• In the fishing episode his struggle is to
assert his own existential values
• The idea of existential issue is
supported by following aspects
• old man is alone man engaged in an
isolated , repetitive struggle that must
end in defeat

8. • The novel only focus on the
particular defeat , first catching the
huge fish marlin and the old man
fight with sharks
• Hemingway in his novel present
the Realism and the naturalistic
• The man struggle is meaningless

9. Existentialism “Fairy Tale”
• The written home in all from the
listener come back to the real
world
• Super Ego in unconscious are in
Fairy tale far from reality

10. Conclusion
• Humans, as stated in Genesis, have been
created by God to have dominion over all
other living creatures, including the fish in
the sea
• Yet humans like Santiago still suffer
because of Adam and Eve's original sin of
eating the apple from the tree of
knowledge

11. Thank you…