| The domestic study of Hemingway has been focused on the following aspects: the study of the war theme, the study of the relations between writer's main body consciousness and his works, the comments on the versions and the comparisons with other writers' works. This dissertation aims to inquire into Hemingway's literary creation and writing style—The Dilemma Structure or the Contradictory Proposition of Hemingway's works, so as to explain the artistic charm of his works and open a window for the future study.Russian literary critic БелиÑкий defines the perpetuity of works like this: " A writer proposes an inextricable question which attracts his generation to make a choice without finding a definite answer, which, in turn, encourages the next generation to probe into it, until forever." The plots of great works often contains contradictory proposition, which doesn't offer us a definite conclusion, instead, it thrills the readers to experience the works and arouse the readers instinct to explore the contradictions. Such contradictions may also be vague to the writer himself. What they want is to unearth the contradictions inherited by the human beings, to tell us the perpetual tragedy that cannot be solved forever. Face to face with such unavoidable tragedy, you can never find a best solution. The unavoidable tragedy is the great tragedy that we should face. The dilemma here doesn't mean the vagueness concept for the author himself, but for the indefinite deeper endoplasm which can be explained in different ways. The greatness of Hemingway's works lies in the extension of our horizons of thinking. In another word, the lack of the dilemma in his works will result in the flatness and insipidness to the readers.Firstly, the contradictory proposition in his works is embodied in the plot. We can't find the traditional structure of novels, namely, "happening, developing, climax and ending", in his works. He writes the real life with natural grace. Under the defocusing structure, a clear clue is running underneath and what's more, an uncertainty is hiding behind the clear clue. People cannot find a reasonable settlement to the structure and the "All Explains and Approaches to the Works Will Come Up With Convincing Arguments" is the result.The Old Man and the Sea constructs an endless subject, which belongs to the human being itself, that is, you can't say who wins or who loses. You can find the failure in a success, or a success in a failure. The Old Man and the Sea is the best representative, and For Whom the Bell Tolls is another.The contradictory proposition in Hemingway's works has extended to the fields of religion and philosophy, which is embodied in the metaphor of the Bible and the existence principle.We could safely say that Santiago is a winner because he realizes his value both as a fisher and a spirit representative of a human being. On the other hand, however, we could say he is a loser, for he lost the fish he caught and commits the original sin by killing his "brother".The presentation of death complex is the core in Hemingway's works, which requires the readers to make sound judgment and selection. Nevertheless, Hemingway doesn't offer us a definite choice for the reason that, once the choice is fixed, it will lead to nihility. The mature of heroes in Hemingway's works is not finished in one day. Although his heroes have the qualities that an ordinary person unpossessed , they have few successful experience in their life. In the mean time, these heroes try to hide the flaw in their personalities: confusion and weakness. And that might be the reason why Hemingway requires his heroes to be enterprising, pioneering and creating so as to help the readers to find the motivation in life. The great heroes and giant characters have resumed the dignity of human beings in literature.The symbolic in Hemingway's works has created limitless topics and novelty, which may be one of the reasons of the perpetuity for his works. Such skills in writing make his... |
