The Analysis Of The African Theme Works Of Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's works with the African theme are very remarkble among all his literary works. They root in the immemorial and mysterious continent of Africa, thus they take on more foreign outlooks and customs than his other works. Although numbers of the domestic and foreign studies of his African works have appeared, nobody has discussed its contents and topics as a whole, saying nothing of anylysing them from the point of view of the ecology criticism. Therefore this thesis will make a study of Hemingway's African works from their process of coming into being and their inditement to the literal appreciativevalue and then seeking their further meanings; finally it focuses on the relationships between the human beings and nature revealed in the works from the point of the view of the ecology criticism. It is the motive of the thesis to make a slight contribution to enrich the study of the great litterateur. The thesis includes four parts.The first part expatiates that Hemingway's two journeys to Africa are the sources of the form and inditement of his African works with the theory that literature comes from life while it epurates from life. The background, process and the main matter of the two journeys are presented in this part. It helps to make a general understanding of Hemingway's works and it offers the meterials of the background of the time to tap the deep meaningof the works.The second part analyzes the appreciative value literally. It chiefly analyzes the African featured plants, animals and local custom in Hemingway's African works and makes a little study of their ploy of portray and of the feelings and atitudes outpoured in the works as viewed from the natural scenery and the custom and culture of Africa. This part mainly presents the analysis and remarks of.The third part, taking as an example, get to the bottom of the deep meaning of his African works. Concerned with, the thesis substantiates the works with stories and narrates the stories with the works. It discourses Hemingway's self-mapping and self-questioning shown in his novels. While in allusion to, from the point of view of Hemingway's conflict view of sex and representative consciousness of male power, the thesis anatomises the main characters of the works to show Hemingway's regret at the gradual decline of men's power and explain the conflict and complex mind of Hemingway that he couldn't overmaster and control women while was always attacted by them every now and then. All the anatomy and discussion are based on Hemingway's double-think character in his life and his behaviour and manner towards the women around him.Part four, from the point of view of the ecology literary criticism, makes a discourse of the issues concered with the relationships between human beings and nature shown in Hemingway's African works. This part figures out the following issues.1. the way the author describe the nature.2. whether the theme of the works reflects the consciouseness of environment.3. what position human beings exist in.4. what human beings do by nature.5. the analysis of the main factor of social civilization deciding the behaviour of human beings towards the nature and the ways of survival in the nature.Finally, taking as an example, the thesis exemplifies that as a sensitive writer Hemingway had realized the conflict between human beings and nature intangibly.