APFIVE Ocean Motif in Melville and Hemingway
How do Herman Melville in “Moby Dick” and Ernest Hemingway in “The Old Man and the Sea” differently employ the ocean motif to influence their novels’ overarching messages?
A
In each novel, the sea serves primarily as backdrop highlighting human isolation.
B
Melville uses it as a vast, unknowable force opposing Ahab, while Hemingway sees it as a source of sustenance that bonds Santiago with nature.
C
The ocean represents only danger and death in both novels’ climactic moments.
D
Both authors depict the ocean purely as a place for man’s heroic conquests against nature.
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