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- Title
Survival Instincts in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea And Yann Martel's Life Of Pi.
- Authors
Vandhana, S.
- Abstract
Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea and Yann Martel's Life Of Pi made them significant novelists of Nautical Literature. Their main focus is on survival of their protagonists. Both the novels have an autobiographical touch in them. Hemingway had described his own fishing experience in Gulf Stream in The Old Man And The Sea and Yann Martel wrote Pi's own story narrated to him by Pi. Santiago in The Old Man And The Sea and Pi in Life Of Pi are the victims of wilderness. The Old Man And The Sea was constructed like a five-act play. The incidents unfold in a dramatic manner. The incidents that happened over the next three days include Santiago catching the marlin and losing it consequently. The harpooning of the marlin and its destruction form the climax and anti-climax respectively. Life Of Pi has built in three parts. The first part dealt with Pi's childhood. The second part narrated Pi's survival in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with Richard Parker, an adult Bengal Tiger. The third part described Pi's conversation with two officials fromthe Japanese Ministry of Transport about his survival in sea with a tiger. In The Old Man And The Sea, Hemingway had given equal importance to both Santiago and Manolin, though Manolin appeared only in the minor part of the novel. In Life Of Pi, Yann Martel focused mainly on Pi's survival story and with lesser importance on other characters in the novel. Both the novels end positively with a sad note. In The Old Man And The Sea, though Santiago had survived, he lost his greatest catch in his life. Similarly, in Life Of Pi, Pi also survived from all the dangers that fate had offered him. But the loss of his greatest companion, Richard Parker made him gloomy. Thus both Ernest Hemingway and Yann Martel had dealt with the theme of survival successfully in their respective novels.
- Subjects
HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; MARTEL, Yann; OLD Man &; the Sea, The (Book : Hemingway); LIFE of Pi (Book : Martel); INSTINCT (Behavior)
- Publication
Language in India, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 7, p287
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article