English Literature

Symbols are considered to be an artistic device. The writers do not convey their thoughts in cheaper words but they use symbols to foreshadow and make their language rich and impressive.  A   Farewell to Arms  depends heavily on Hemingway�s symbolic technique to convey the subjective condition of his characters. Hemingway�s use of symbols and metaphors is always sublime and subtle. But this does not mean that his symbolism is tinged with obscurity or ambiguity. Rather his idiomatic expressions and under-statements are quite clear and far from being incomprehensible. The writer uses simplicity and naturalness to decorate his narrative and to draw the attention of his reader. The very title of the novel is itself symbolical. The title bears two-fold symbolic meanings. The hero in the novel bids farewell not only to the war but also to the arms of the woman he loves. He bids farewell to war because he is disgusted with it. But he also bids farewell to the arms of his beloved woman because

Ernest Hemingway, one the greatest novelists of modern times, created such gems of English literature and produced such unforgettable and marvelous characters as can never be forsaken or overlooked. In A   Farewell to Arms , there are two important and extraordinary characters; one of them, undoubtedly, is Catherine Barkley. It seems to be worthwhile to mention that she is a flat character and she has pre-conceived notions about life, death, love and war. She is confident and excites sympathy and tender feelings by her gentle and exemplary behavior. She is beautiful and tall woman and has a comely figure. When Catherine sees Henry for the first time, the shadow of death hangs over their meeting--her fianc� has been blown   � all to bits �   in the war of Somme.   In her conversation with Henry, she laments that she didn�t marry her fianc� before he died. She says that they were engaged for   "eight years ," and that they   "grew up together." Upon her meeting with H

 Lt. Fredric Henry, the protagonist in  A Farewell to Arms , exemplifies Hemingway's code hero in several ways. Like a typical Hemingway�s hero he is a wounded man not only physically but also psychologically. He is a man who engages in life, rather than observing it as a bystander. He maintains self-control in the face of overwhelming adversity, and he does not demonstrate self-pity. Like  Hemingway�s other code heroes, Lt. Henry is existentially removed from the world. He possesses personal integrity, often feels isolated and remains stoic for most of the time. He is a rationalist and pragmatist who brings everything to the test of experience. Most of all, Lt. Henry functions as a Hemingway code hero because he faces life with courage, and he endures life with dignity. The character of Lt. Henry is a prime example of a Hemingway hero. He shows a general loss of faith in conventional morality. Henry respects the priest, but he says flat out that he does not believe in God.     In

Theme of Love and war besides other themes is the central theme of Hemingway�s � A Farewell to Arms �. In   A Farewell to Arms,   love and war are shown to be interlinked with each other. War easily puts love in danger, makes it unstable and creates strong disillusionment of love. It is also because of war that love can have its grounds; it is because the war that love is challenged and destroyed and does not survive the war at the end. As the title of the novel makes clear,   A Farewell to Arms   concerns itself primarily with war.   Hemingway's artistic creation is never independent from his life experience, and his personal beliefs.   �After ten years of meditation and "digestion" of his experience, Hemingway lays before his readers a work which is far from a mere war experience, nor a story of love and death during the war�,   says Baker. With his unique artistic method and style, his profound writing technique, Hemingway describes vividly the cruelest slaughter in

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