Hemingway’s tragic vision:

Eighth Lecture
Hemingway’s tragic vision:

Santiago a most struggling character through this novel with his eighty four days journey. Though he gets overwhelm many times ,but Hemingway portraits his character as a hero. Passed away 84 days without losing hope he dares to voyage to the sea and hardly trapped one fish in his tactic ,but he has to struggle a lot because Marlin pulls his boat into the sea for three days and after this decisive fight he only gets the skeleton of a Marline. He also loves and gives respect to his opponents as he said:

“Fish... I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends."

Santiago says this to the fish before the bird approaches his boat for a chat. He talks to the fish as if it is his equal in battle, and he has great respect for it as a noble creature. He speaks of his commitment to fulfilling his job as a fisherman, because it is more than a job - it is his entire life. All that Santiago is as a man is wrapped up in his task of killing the marlin and bringing it home. Loving and respecting it is not mutually exclusive with killing it.

“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so”

His last word on the subject comes when he asks himself the reason for undoing and decides.

“Nothing … I went out too far”

While it is true that Santiago’s eighty four day run of bad luck is an affront to his pride as a masterful fisherman and that his attempt to bear out his skills by sailing far into the gulf waters leads to disaster. Hemingway doesn’t characterize him with full of pride but a person who is very responsible about, his behavior which was shown in fight with a fish.
From his character writer wants to demonstrate the vision into the readers mind that pride motivates to greatness. Because the old man acknowledges that he killed the mighty Marlin largely out of pride and because his capture of Marlin leads in turn to his heroic transcendence of defeat, pride becomes the source of Santiago’s greatest strength. Without the effect of the pride the battle would not be possible to win for Santiago. It is not his victory on creatures but it is his victory to bitterness of society and comes out the nuisance of ‘Unlucky’ or ‘The Flag of Permanent defeat’
Throughout the novel no matter how malevolent his journey is , but at the end of novel he proves that if a person has confidence to do something then nobody stop them they are ready to fly and wins the every battle of life ….etc.

The Elements that Help to Establish what we may call the "Tragic Vision":
1. The conclusion is catastrophic.
2. The catastrophic conclusion will seem inevitable.
3. It occurs, ultimately, because of the human limitations of the protagonist.
4. The protagonist suffers terribly.
5. The protagonist s suffering often seems disproportionate to his or her culpability.
6. Yet the suffering is usually redemptive, bringing out the noblest of human capacities for learning.
7. The suffering is also redemptive in bringing out the capacity for accepting moral responsibility.