Money and Body for Male’s Pleasure: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Shahi
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
Central Character ◽  
World War ◽  
The People ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Farewell To Arms

This article explores World War I Hero, Expatriates: Money and Body are two major objects for males’ pleasure. The very title is slightly discussed applying psychoanalytical approach. Mainly, it studies focusing on Freudian and Jungian concepts of Sex and Sexuality. Statement of problems is to find out what made the people go outside the country as expatriates mainly to the protagonist Lieutenant Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, in the novel A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, this article tries to analyze World War I Hero and Expatriates: Money and Body for Male’s pleasure with reference to some critics in the body part of this article. In A Farewell to Arms, the hero, Frederic Henry, is badly injured by the bomb shell in the Italian front during the World War I. He is admitted to the Milan hospital and has been involved with the nurse Catherine Barkley. She is a volunteer nurse and the central character. However, the hero, Henry is attracted towards her for his pleasure not only from the perspective of money but for body and pleasure. These two characters represent the American and British expatriates who are crowding the bars, restaurants, night clubs, bull fight sports or in different entertaining places getting fed up with the horrors of World War I. They live comfortably in the foreign country. They want to get rid of the war and weapons so that they can enjoy as outsiders in the foreign countries as expatriates.

scholarly journals Trauma and Remembering in Earnest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Badri Prasad Pokharel
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World War ◽  
War Experiences ◽  
Farewell To Arms

Human beings have been coming across different kinds of traumatic experiences since the very beginning of the human civilization. Such experiences have become one of the issues, which can be discussed and interpreted while reading the literary texts. For example, Ernest Hemingway has produced fictional works that reveal the horrible war experiences and whose characters participate in the war, endure fatal events, and get badly victimized, having traumatic experiences. A Farewell to Arms written in 1929, one of his literary masterpieces, brings out those experiences which the main character Henry endures and is badly traumatized by the horrible consequences. The activities that he involves either in the World War I, as an ambulance driver or has a love affair with a British nurse Catherine, are all related to his traumatic experiences. As a traumatic hero of the novel, he would not have anything except remembering those horrible memories that he probably wants to forget, but as much as he tries to forget them, he remembers a lot. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v1i1.10469 Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.1(1) 2013; 59-64

Ernest Hemingway

2020 ◽  
pp. 154-185
Author(s):  
David A. Rennie
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
World War ◽  
Public Writing ◽  
Private And Public

Hemingway’s World War I writing developed, first, as he honed his distinctive style and progressed toward completing his first novel. In the 1930s, Hemingway shifted approach, however, and his World War I-related writings came under the influence of his interest in social inequality (To Have and Have Not); his shift toward showing instead of implying interiority in Across the River and into the Trees; and the general imposition of his ego into his private and public writing. He remained committed, however, to the idea of the inherently complex nature of warfare.

The Lost Generation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. McKee
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Gertrude Stein ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Sun ◽  
World War ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
Sun Also Rises ◽  
The Sun Also Rises

The Lost Generation is a group of expatriate American writers who came of age during World War I and who subsequently became prominent literary figures. The term can also be used to refer to the whole of the post-World War I generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) in a comment to Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) in which she declared, ‘You are all a lost generation’. Hemingway subsequently used this phrase as an epigraph to his novel The Sun also Rises (1926), which is often seen as emblematic of the Lost Generation’s literary tradition.

scholarly journals “The Soldier's Wife Who Ran Away with the Russian”: Sexual Infidelities in World War I Germany

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa M. Todd
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Court Records ◽  
The Third ◽  
Immoral Behavior ◽  
The People ◽  
The Common

In May 1917 twenty-seven residents of Landau (Württemberg) sent a long petition to the German Reichstag. The group, which included doctors, pastors, teachers, and industrialists, demanded that the state put an end to the “immoral” behavior of women who had romantic relationships with foreign prisoners of war. The petition included more than one hundred examples of such affairs, gleaned from newspapers, court records, and eyewitness accounts. The petitioners lamented the “sinking morality” of the countryside and the damaged reputation of German women. They also had more immediate concerns. These affairs were threatening the happiness of families, “complicating” the feeding of the nation, weakening the strength of the people, and heightening the fear of espionage. The petitioners went on to warn the Reichstag deputies that “good German citizens are full of anger at such events,” and that the common person's “sense of sacrifice” was dwindling now, in the third year of the war.

The Archives of the Consolata Mission and the Formation of the Italian Empire, 1913-1943

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 319-340
Author(s):  
Alberto Sbacchi
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Southwestern Ethiopia ◽  
The People ◽  
Original Plan ◽  
The Right

The Institute of the Consolata for Foreign Missions was founded in Turin, Italy in 1901 by the General Superior, Giuseppe Allamano (1851-1926). The primary purpose of the mission is to evangelize and educate non-Christian peoples. Allamano believed in the benefit of religion and education when he stated that the people “will love religion because of the promise of a better life after death, but education will make them happy because it will provide a better life while on earth.” The Consolata distinguishes itself for stressing the moral and secular education and its enthusiasm for missionary work. To encourage young people to become missionaries, Allamano convinced Pius X to institute a world-wide mission day in 1912. Allamano's original plan was for his mission to work among the “Galla” (Oromo) people of Ethiopia and continue the mission which Cardinal Massaia had begun in 1846 in southwestern Ethiopia. While waiting for the right moment, the Consolata missionaries ministered among the Kikuyu people of Kenya. In 1913 the Propaganda Fides authorized the Consolata Mission to begin work in Kaffa, Ethiopia. In 1919 it entered Tanzania and, accepting a government invitation in 1924, the Consolata installed itself in Italian Somalia and in 1925 in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Before the World War I the mission also expanded in Brazil, in 1937, and after 1937 its missionaries went to Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Canada, the United States, Zaire, Uganda, South Africa, and South Korea.

scholarly journals Sites of Memory on the Isonzo Front in WW I: The National and Transnational Rhetoric of Border Space in Literary and Semi-literary Texts

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-243
Author(s):  
Vanesa Matajc
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
External Observer ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
Farewell To Arms ◽  
Spatial Identity

The article examines the Slovene-Italian border space in terms of the historical-spatial identity that was ascribed to it by the collective imagination of World War I and the Isonzo front. Its meaning was created by the collective memories of the national communities that were involved in the battles on the Isonzo front. The paper addresses the question of the memorial culturalisation of this space in light of New Historicism and the theory of semiotics, i.e. as interaction of spatial-rhetorical signs and verbal-linguistic semiotisation of these signs which was produced by literature, diaries and reports on the Isonzo front. The paper presents referential sites of memory (Redipuglia, San Michele, Doberdob, Oslavia) in view of the following texts: Doberdob, a novel written by Slovene literary author Prežihov Voranc, Austrian soldier Hans Pölzer‘s memories, Slovene catholic priest Alojzij Novak’s diary, Austrian reporter Alice Schalek‘s report from the battlefield, and (as an aspect of an external observer) Ernest Hemingway novel A Farewell to Arms. These texts represent collective identities which endow this border space with the identitiy of the Isonzo front and give it additional meaning: a) historical: in the course of history meaning was produced in terms of national collective identities which refer also to this space; and b) in the contemporary trans-national collective memory meaning is produced through the humanist lens of the catastrophic character of WW I. Both of these aspects of collective memories are created in an interaction with the space of the Isonzo front and its verbal-textual semiotisations, whereby sites of memory of WW I create one of the central rhetorics of this space.

scholarly journals The Heroic Battle of Van-Vaspourakan according to the Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-44
Author(s):  
Verjiné Svazlian
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The People ◽  
The Town

The Young Turk leaders of the Ottoman Empire participated in World War I having expansionist objectives and with their former pan-Turkic and pan-Islamic plan to carry out the genocide of the Armenians. The mobilization and the collection of arms of the Armenians started with the war. The governor of Van Djevdet pasha besieged the town with the Turkish armed forces. The people of Van struggled heroically, till the last drop of their blood, to defend their elementary human right for survival and their Motherland. The testimonies and historical songs, communicated by 35 eyewitness survivors of the heroic battle of Van, which I have enscribed, audio- and video-recorded, have served as a basis for the preparation of the present article.

scholarly journals The He(A)rt of the Witness: Remembering Australian Prisoners of War in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Body ◽  
World War ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Narrow Road ◽  
A Site ◽  
Second World

This paper engages Cathy Caruth’s thinking about trauma, Marianne Hirsch’s notion of postmemory, and Giorgio Agamben’s theorising of bearing witness to examine the affective performance of remembering in Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Reading the narrative as a postmemorial account of Japan’s internment of Australian POWs in Burma during the Second World War, I focus on the body as a site of both wounding and witnessing to show how the affective relays between pleasure and pain reanimate the epistemological drama of lived experience and highlight the ambivalence of passion as a trope for both suffering and love. Framed by its intertextual homage to Matsuo Bashō’s poetic masterpiece of the same name, the Australian narrative of survival is shown to emerge from the collapse of the referential certainties underlying the binaries of victim/ victimiser, witness/perpetrator, human/inhuman, and remembering/forgetting. In Flanagan’s ethical imagination, bearing witness calls for a visceral rethinking of historical subjectivity that binds the world to consciousness as a source of both brutality and beauty.

Service as Duty

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Henning Melber
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
World War ◽  
Value System ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social

This chapter presents a summary background to the influences Dag Hammarskjöld was exposed to by his family during his upbringing, and the influence his father had as a Prime Minister appointed by the King during World War I. It summarizes his influential role in bringing about the Swedish welfare state as an economist (without a party membership) in the Social Democratic government during the 1930s and 1940s. It explains his internalized value system, which was that of a Swedish civil servant loyal to the public interest and the people, and how he defined and understood his contribution. It stresses his emphasis on integrity and service as a duty of life, views which were inspired by the protestant ethics of Max Weber.

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