The “Rotten” matter in A Farewell to Arms: An Ecological Gothic reading

This article uncovers the gothic tropes manifest in the “rotten” food, human bodies, landscapes, and rain in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms through an eco-gothic perspective. It demonstrates how the rotten food, the disjointed bodies, the broken landscapes, and the gothic rain can be viewed in the novel as counter-narratives against the narratives of war, the military, and modern medicine. The first part of this article suggests interpreting war as a form of cannibalism by exploring the representations of rotten food and the connection between eating and killing. Next, the author focuses on how the body is fragmented both metaphorically and literally by the discourse of war, the military, and medical science. The third part uncovers the non-anthropocentric consciousness embedded within the protagonist’s narrative, followed by the gothicizing and romanticization of nature in the fourth section. Here, the protagonist’s linking of the human body to the natural landscape, the descriptions of the gothic rain, and the romanticized snow—all these, as the author argues, can be interpreted as a collective resistance against industrial, anthropocentric warfare.

The Theme of Love Against the Background of War in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms has autobiographical elements that reveal the author’s life story. Lt. Frederic Henry, the narrator, tells the story of his love affair with Catherine Barkley, a nurse in the hospital. Being an eye witness and served as a soldier during World War I, Hemingway seems to favour humanity, love and peace in the novel. He considers the war as futile and venomous for mankind. Hemingway himself passed through upheavals of life but there was a little hope to get love in life. Love brings liveliness to man’s life. Plato considered love as the solution to all the problems. This paper is a sincere effort to evaluate Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms as a tale of love against the background of the war.

THE MOTIVE OF LOST ILLUSIONS IN W.S. MAUGHAM’S “FOR SERVICES RENDERED” AND J. B. PRESTLEY’S “TIME AND THE CONWAYS”

The purpose of this article is to analyze the motive of lost illusions in W.S. Maugham’s “For Services Rendered” and J. B. Priestley’s “Time and the Conways”. This motive is realized, firstly, at the level of the system of characters, when two authors show characters with broken hearts, thus the idea of “a heartbreak house” becomes the dominant one in these plays. Secondly, both playwrights use a circular composition, showing the life circle of their characters. The article concludes about the genre diversity of the works of the two authors: Maugham creates a social drama (focusing on the fate of representatives of the "lost generation", the spiritual blindness of the adherents of good old England), Priestley - a philosophical "drama of time" with its characteristic semantics: the loss of time, the compression of time and its reverse flow. Besides, the article discusses a historical and literature context of post-war time: we find typological connections with Siegfried Sassoon’s poetry and Ernest Hemingway’s novel “A Farewell to Arms”.

Reflections on Hemingway’s Life Experience in A Farewell to Arms (Historical-Biographical Study)

The purpose of this research is to find and describe the relationship between Hemingway’s life story in A Farewell to Arms and his real life. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with a historical-biographical approach, that is, an approach that sees literature as the life and era of its author. The research data is in the form of novel texts that describe the characters and the setting of the place. The data were obtained by using the reading-note technique, namely reading the data carefully and recording the parts of the data related to the setting, characters, and characterizations. The data were analyzed by describing the setting and characters in A Farewell to Arms then compared with the data on The German Wars 1914–194, World War I and http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway. The results of the analysis show that there is a relationship between the character and place in A Farewell to Arms and the author’s life.

Law and Legitimacy in A Farewell to Arms

Laura Weinrib reads Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated 1929 novel as an indictment of war’s moral and legal logic. While commentary on A Farewell to Arms has typically emphasized the transgressive nature of Henry and Barkley’s love affair, Weinrib argues that the novel’s unmarried protagonists may in fact have entered into a common law marriage, and, at minimum, both their relationship and their unborn child are capable of retroactive legitimation. The sentimentality and comparative conventionality of the love story, according to Weinrib, accentuate the brutality of wartime conduct, which Hemingway regarded as irredeemably criminal. By the same token, the navigability and relative predictability of the civilian legal system stand in stark contrast to the arbitrariness of the wartime legal order.

Compulsion Versus Volition in A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) is one of the most widely read American novelist of the 19th century, whose works have been variously interpreted. His fiction was influenced by different sociological, political and psychological trends of the time. The adventures of his personal life inspired some of the fascinating stories in his fiction. A Farewell to Arms projects the concept of individual struggle in the face of stiff resistance. His protagonist helplessly strives to define his existence; he, however, miserably fails in his struggle for actualizing his existence. But ultimately, he learns the secret of a meaningful existence. This study traces these elements of existentialist philosophy and examines its influence on the art of Hemingway. Although his views are also influenced and modified by the trends of the time, the influence of existentialist philosophy is vividly visible in all his writings. The paper analyzes the major works of Hemingway, particularly his famous novel A Farewell to Arms, in the light of existentialism. It specifically focuses on the rise and fall of the hero and heroine in the novel when they try to define their existence in this free and void world.

Farewell to Arms

How do rebels give up arms and return to the political system that they once sought to overthrow? Policymakers often focus on incentives like cash and jobs to lure rebels away from extremism. From the rebels’ perspective, however, physical safety is more important than these livelihood options. Rebels quit extremist groups only when they know that they can disarm without getting killed in the process. This book shows that retiring Maoist rebels in India believe that they could lose their lives after they disarm, targeted either by enemies they made during their insurgent career or by their former comrades. However, the Indian state would lose nothing if it failed to keep its side of the bargain and protect disarmed rebels. This creates a problem of credible commitment, which, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, is addressed locally by informal exit networks that emerge from grassroots civic associations in the gray zones of state-insurgency interface. Maoist retirement is high in South India and low in the North due to emergence of two distinct types of exit networks in these two conflict locations. By showing that the type of exit network depends on local social bases of an insurgency and the ties of an insurgent organization to society, this book brings civil society into the study of insurgency in a theoretically coherent way.