This document provides an analysis of symbols in Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea" and themes in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter". It discusses key symbols like the old man, sea, marlin, and their meanings. It also analyzes the themes of adultery, sin, crime and punishment in "The Scarlet Letter" as embodied by the scarlet letter A worn by Hester Prynne and how its meaning changes throughout the novel. The document is submitted as part of a college assignment on American literature.

1. Name :- Praful Ghreniya
Roll no :- 20
Sem:-3
Paper no :- (10) American literature.
Title:-Exaplation OF The scarlet letter
theme and the old Man and the sea in
symbol
Email Id:- prafulghareniya@gmail.com
Submitted to department of English
Maharaja krishnakumarsinghji university.

2. The old man and the sea
 Earnest Hemingway
 This novella awarded the
Pulitzer prize for fiction in
(1953)

3. Symbols in the novella
symbol
Lion
The
Marlin
The sea
The skiff
The
mast
Joe Di
Maggio
The old
man
Menolin
The
harpoon

4. What is symbolism?
“Symbolism is the
use of symbols to
signify ideas and
qualities by giving
them symbolic
meanings that are
different from their
literal sense

5. The Lion
 Symbol of youth ,
freedom,strength
 The olds man
The passion
Power
freedom

6. The Sea
 The sea present the
universe and Sentiago’s
isolation in the universe
 The sea represent
challenge and endless
nature

7. The old man (Sentiago)
 In the novella the old man
eye’s blue color represented
the color of sea
 Old age, wrinkled skin
symbolized human fate
raised to level of suffering
by comic process
 Old man’s struggle
compared with JESUS
CHRIST
 “fish, I will stay with u untill I
died
 Every day is new day

8. Symbolically represent the end of
life
 Santiago represents a noble and tragic individualism
universe what man can do in an indifferent unlevered
which defeats him and the love he can feel for such a
universe and his humality before it Hemingway has
been increasingly concerned with the relationship
between individualism and interdepenence

9. •MENOLIN
 The old man had taught
the boy to fish and the boy
loved him
 Manolin is the symbol of
hope

10. The skiff, the mast, the harpoon
 The Skiff: symbol of
Santiago himself Skiff has
to struggle in sea
 The mast: symbol of cross
of JESUS
 The Harpoon: the last of
harpoon Is symbol of loss
of power,strenght,pride

11. JOE DI DIMAGGO
 Santiago see Joe as an
equal heroic character
 Symbolizes the
indomitable will of the
human sprite
 Joe also represent hope
that old man has for
Manolin

12. The scarlet letter
 Written by Nathaniel
Hawthorne
 Published on 1850
 He was born on 1804
 He died on1864
 Short story writer and
novelist
 Inspired by puritan thought

13. Theme
 The theme of the novel belongs to the puritan age
 Adultery is the theme of this novel
 Meaning of A
 Hester had to wear red A on her bosom which stands
for Adulteress
 She was forced to live isolated life with Pearl
 Hester changed the meaning of A
ADULTERY ANGEL ANGEL

14. POLITICAS OF A
 A LETTER A STAND FOR
 Letter A as adultery
 Letter A as able
 Letter A as angel
Beginning of the
novel in ‘ADULTERY
Middle of the novel
in ’able
End of the novel
angel
SIN
CRIME
PUNISH
MENT

16. Theme of sin ,crime punishment
Much of his work focused on the theme of sin and was
based in the Puritan time period.
Sin was the central focus of many stories, traits of
many
Represents sin. Daughter of Hester and
Dimmesdale.Hester’s painful penance of her adultery
but beautiful joy of her life.haracters, and hidden twist
behind endings