Analyzing the Binary Deconstruction of the Character Santiago (E. Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea) from the Perspective of Mahayana Buddhism’s Concept of Emptiness

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The article applies Jacques Derrida's binary deconstruction to the concept of Emptiness in Mahayana Buddhism to approach "The Old Man and the Sea" (E. Hemingway) and analyze the character of Santiago. The article uses semiotic research methods, discourse analysis, and poetics to propose a model, methodology, and application of that methodology to deconstruct the binary character structure in Hemingway's novel, specifically identifying opposing pairs, and construction techniques, and analyzing the manifestation of the deconstructed structure. From there, it suggests a new direction for Western literary text interpretation from an Eastern perspective.