| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| Chapter One: Brief Introductions to Three Authors' Novels | 第13-17页 |
| 1．1 Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe | 第13-14页 |
| 1．2 Herman Melville's Moby Dick | 第14-15页 |
| 1．3 Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two: The Implications of the Seas in Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea | 第17-25页 |
| 2．1 A Natural and Mysterious Sea in Robinson Crusoe | 第17-18页 |
| 2．2 A Super-powerful and Divine Sea in Moby Dick | 第18-21页 |
| 2．3 A Humane and Unfathomable Sea in The Old Man and the Sea | 第21-25页 |
| Chapter Three: Man's Spirit Through the Interaction between Man and the Sea | 第25-41页 |
| 3．1 Man's Independent and Struggling Spirit in Robinson Crusoe | 第25-28页 |
| 3．2 Man's Challenging and Exploratory Spirit in Moby Dick | 第28-34页 |
| 3．3 Man's Undefeatable and Ambivalent Spirit in The Old Man and the Sea | 第34-37页 |
| 3．4 The Dialectical Consideration of the Relationship between Man's Aggressive Spirit and the Sea with Respect of the Enlightenment | 第37-41页 |
| Chapter Four: Different Social Development Stages of the Capitalism Mirrored in Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea | 第41-50页 |
| 4．1 The Initiate Social Development reflected in Robinson Crusoe | 第41-43页 |
| 4．2 The Uprising Social Development reflected in Moby Dick | 第43-46页 |
| 4．3 The Unsound Social Development reflected in The Old man and the Sea | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter Five: The Writing Techniques Related to the Theme in Robinson Cruso,Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea | 第50-59页 |
| 5．1 Humanism Imbedded in Robinson Crusoe | 第50-52页 |
| 5．2 Transcendentalism Saturated in Moby Dick | 第52-55页 |
| 5．3 Naturalism Embodied in The Old Man and the Sea | 第55-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-65页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第65页 |
