I'm writing an essay about The Old Man and the Sea and I have to write about it's context. I read that context is mainly about the writers circumstances when he wrote the text so is that true? Hemingway was depressed because "Hemingway was a writer who always relied heavily on autobiographical sources, some critics, not surprisingly, eventually decided that the novella served as a thinly veiled attack upon them" so he decided to write The Old Man and the Sea to describe his struggle in a world "that is designed to destroy him" so it that the context in all texts?
However, I read that context literally means the interpretation and perspective of the text, i.e. if you read one paragraph without reading what's before and after you may interpret it differently etc...
so can someone please clarify this?
However, I read that context literally means the interpretation and perspective of the text, i.e. if you read one paragraph without reading what's before and after you may interpret it differently etc...
so can someone please clarify this?