A Farewell Of Arms, By Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is based largely on Hemingway's own personal experiences. The main character of the book, Frederic Henry experiences many of the same situations that Hemingway experienced. Some of these experiences are exactly the same, while some are less similar, and some events have a completely different outcome.

    "All fiction is autobiographical, no matter how obscure from the author's experience it may be, marks of their life can be detected in any of their tales"(Bell, 17).  A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is based largely on Hemingway's own personal experiences.  The main character of the novel, Frederic Henry, experiences many of the same situations that Hemingway lived.  Some of these similarities are exact, while some are less similar, and some events have a completely different outcome.

    There are two major themes in A Farewell to Arms that Hemingway clearly conveys: war and love. The war theme is obvious because the book is set during the World War. The theme of love is less obvious, it begins faintly because of the uncertainty between Frederick Henry and Catherine Barkley. Neither desire love or commitment to anyone, but act upon their desires of passion. As the story progresses, so does their love. The strength of their love is enforced by various understandings and agreements. Love is the theme that closes the book, leaving a final allusion of what their love is about.

In the Excerpt A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, the author's use of imagery and varying sentence lengths help convey Frederick Henry's understanding of human life and the reality of death. During the death of Fredericks baby and wife, he reflects on the meaning of life and the significance of death. His thoughts and actions after this incident make it seem like he would rather be dead than have to deal with the death of his loved ones.

In terms of characters and characterization (versus plot and theme), A Farewell to Arms is the story of Lieutenant Frederic Henry and the way he grows and changes, lives and learns, in order to catch up to the Nurse Catherine Barkley with respect to experience and the wisdom that it brings. Especially considering that Ernest Hemingway has been accused of misogyny, it is fascinating to note that Catherine is the more mature of the two characters when they meet; therefore, it is Henry who must struggle to match her level of maturity. Returning from his leave near the start of the novel, Henry knows he should have traveled to the priest's home region of Abruzzi, a "place where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear and cold

Imagine a time that had no point, no further meaning to life beside sex and alcohol.In A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, the main character Lt Henry is an ambulance driver for the Italian army. While he’s in the war, he is blown up, loses his love, and loses his child. Ernest Hemingway shows the reader that life is nothing but a game.

In The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway, there are two main settings: France and Spain. The novel begins in Paris, France with the narrator and protagonist, Jake Barnes lives and immerses himself in his journalism. Paris is known to be a place of great beauty, and was a common place for many writers to reside in the 1920’s. This initial setting of Paris served to contrast the excitement and beauty yet corruption and uneasiness that is the enigma of Paris. This is where Jake lives, he frequents bars and parallels his author Hemingway in his general detachment from the war. The second setting is in Spain where Burguete, Pamplona and Madrid are visited. Burguete is a more rustic part of the country where Jake and Bill go to be one with nature and go fishing. This setting was the most different from Pamplona and Paris, for its unadulterated nature and simplicity of the landscape. However, the fiesta in Pamplona was a grand event where Brett was moved by Pedro Romero. Pamplona was a small city known for its bull-fighting, and the place where tension unfolds when the main characters get drunk and fight for Brett’s affection. The settings in this novel are parallel to the events that unfold there.

In the Novel “A Farewell to Arms” Hemingway includes several aspects to achieve his affect of celebrating a Code of Hero manhood. Frederic Henry, the protagonist, visibly considers loyalty to his relationships and friendships significant. This is illustrated by his actions in the war as an ambulance driver. Similar to his actions while volunteering as an ambulance driver Henry’s friendship with Rinaldi is also important to him, to the point that even though Rinaldi is interested in men that does not interfere with their friendship. Henry also shows a great commitment to Catherine and his

Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms is the first person account of Italian Lieutenant Frederic Henry’s experience during World War I. In the beginning of the novel the war seems distant, and Henry meets a woman by the name of Catherine, who he soon begins to fall in love with. Too quickly it seems he is in combat and soon finds himself injured and transported to a hospital away from the front lines. During his recovery, his relationship with Catherine grows, though his break from the war is over as quickly as it started and Henry is thrusted back into the war yet again. At this point, defeat seems imminent:morale is low and seemingly all hope is lost. After losing his dearest friends and fellow soldiers Henry escapes the warfare to

A Farewell to Arms crafted by Ernest Hemingway is a novel that captures the prevailing of love in WWI because of the protagonist's philosophy of “Carpe Diem.” Lieutenant Henry can be viewed as a “Hemingway Hero” because he rejected traditional beliefs and he lived every day without thinking about yesterday or worrying about tomorrow. As a result of the experiences of war, the living of life becomes the highlight amongst the main characters, the three individuals that exude this mantra are Lieutenant Henry,

In Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry gets involved with Catherine Barkley to escape the reality of war. After being together for a while they both fall in love. The situations they were in at the time they found one another allowed them to find an escape into their fantasies. Through these conversations it becomes evident that Henry, the main protagonist, is not the heroic figure he is claimed to be. Instead, he is just a man, who indulges himself with his desires to cope with the war around him.

Wrestling with the almost indescribable topic of war, Hemingway layers A Farewell to Arms with deeper meaning in order to allow for in depth interpretation of his characters and overall thematic message. Throughout the novel guns come to symbolize the direct control of violence and eventually reveal how Henry has changed as a character and the overall destruction that war brings.

Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel, A Farewell to Arms, is one of the greatest love and war stories of all time. The success and authenticity of this tale is a direct result of Hemingway’s World War I involvement. The main character, Frederick Henry, encounters many of the same things as did Hemingway and creates a parallel between the author and character.

In A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway wrote about an American man named Frederic Henry driving an ambulance in World War I. Frederic Henry fell in love with a nurse, Catherine Barkley, and experienced his life in war with Catherine by his side. Ernest Hemingway received inspiration to write this book from his own true life events. He was in the military and also fell deeply in love with a young nurse from a Hospital when he was injured. The young nurse accepted Hemingway’s marriage proposal and soon after deserted him. Hemingway did not only write about the war, but also wrote how the women in A Farewell To Arms evolved into the new, modern women by acting more independently and less like victorian women. Catherine Barkley personified

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially,” -Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. World War I was the most brutal war of its time, and it shaped the values of its era. Hemingway represents these values in his novel “A Farewell to Arms” by writing about how the war ended up capitalizing on disillusionment and detachment, and created a lost generation. A generation that embodied the reality of war opposed to the war’s romanticized version. A generation that represents the loss of its traditional values. A generation that indulges in pleasurable acts in hopes of abandoning reality, if for only a few hours. Frederic Henry is the protagonist of the novel and is the true antithesis of a romanticized hero. The hero depicted in George Peele’s poem “A Farewell to Arms” fought for his queen and only saw glory in battle. The contrast between the chivalrous ideals of the knight and Frederic’s pessimistic realizations illustrates the diminished values during the World War I era.