Outline For A Farewell To Arms By Ernest Hemingway

The word "war" is always horrible to man especially with who has been exposed to. It is destruction, death, and horrible suffers that has been with all man's life. In the short story "In Another Country", Ernest Hemingway shows us the physical and emotional tolls of the war as well as its long-term consequences on man's life. He also portrays the damaging effects that the war has on the lives of the Italians and even of the Americans.

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

Ernest Hemingway, one of the most notable writers of the Lost Generation, encountered heinous acts of war which were seared into his mind, this assertion is evident with every page

During the war, Henry’s emotions overcome him which compels him to make wicked decisions. After the war begins, Henry is committed to winning and does not care about the obstacles that lie ahead. After his friends are slaughtered, Henry decides that “every soldier kill his prisoners.” (4.6.38) All the prisoners taken by the English were slaughtered because Henry’s emotions interfered with his decision making. Moreover, Henry’s intellect got in the way with his decision-making, which cost the lives of many

In the beginning of the book Henry is some what eager to be fighting in the gory scenes of battle. “He had, of course, dreamed of battles all his life – of vague and bloody conflicts that had thrilled him with their sweep and fire.” Henry was smitten with the idea of being engaged with killing other people like a wild animal, but when the time came it became known to him that his reactions to the scenes of war was not at all what he thought it would be. When one thinks about the idea of war one thinks highly about it and glorifies it, but in the actual chaos and confusion of war men become petrified, delusional, and lose their sanity. “He had rid himself of the red sickness of battle. The sultry nightmare was in the past. He had been an animal blistered and sweating in the heat and pain of war.” This quotes shows how Henry learned that his longing for war attitude was a incorrect attitude to have. Also that his war thirsty attitude got him into a scenario of war which made him lose his identity and rationality. To conclude, fighting against one another is not something someone should be gleeful about but

1.) How should war be shown in novels- as the horrible, death bringer that war is or as an act of heroism? (pg. 204-206)

I think that Henry’s point of view of war would be that “war is not won by victory”. Throughout the story he never tries to solve things with violence and tries to make decisions with

Throughout a lifetime the things that make us, as individuals, feel joy give meaning to our lives, without these things we have no meaning to be on Earth. Hemingway takes the reader on a journey of adding meaning to life. He shows the reader that the soldiers feel nothing towards the war and it is just something to do. Frederick Henry, a soldier, gives up on the war and decides to no longer be apart of something he does not care for. When Henry meets Catherine Barkley, she does not affect his existence until later in the novel. He lies to her and does not realize how important their time spent together truly is. Eventually, Henry realizes he does love Catherine. She changes his life for the better and when he is not around her he feels empty. His entire existence revolves around her. At the end of the novel, Henry gets the meaning of his life stripped away from him when Catherine dies after childbirth and he no longer feels any sort of emotion. In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway explores through detail, setting, characterization, symbolism, and imagery that life is a useless, blank canvas until it is painted to evoke meaning and demonstrate a story.

In A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses damaged characters to show the unglamorous and futile nature of war and the effects it has on people. Hemingway wants readers to know that war is not what people make it out to be; it is unspectacular and not heroic. Hemingway also feels that war is futile by nature and that most goals in war have almost no point. He also shows readers that military conflict often causes people to have shallow values and to hide their pain for their own protection.

Henry is stationed in Italy, and he meets many characters over the course of the story. Some are for the war and glorify it while others are against it and understand that man only faces death and destruction. Given the amount of death in the story, Hemingway seems to focus on the horrors of war and the fate of all those in conflict. Even the brightest areas have a negative

Hemingway and WWI: Finding Morality in A Farewell to Arms, Not Heeding a Warning in The Sun Also Rises

During World War I, the Allies and Central Powers fought a long and grueling war. Ernest Hemingway served in WWI as an ambulance driver and did not have a pedestrian life. Hemingway wrote the book Farewell to Arms based on his time in WWI. In A Farewell to Arms, the main character Frederic Henry is fighting in the Italian army; however, he is an American. During his time in the war, Henry meets a woman named Catherine Barkley and pursues a complex, quasi-relationship at first. After some time Henry and Catherine's relationship deepens as they spend more time together. Throughout the book, many heavy themes are discussed: appearances, uselessness, and identity. In Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, he teaches the lesson that appearances can affect the way other people judge others.

World War I was a time of constant worry because of destruction caused to the European countryside. Ernest Hemingway depicts an American ambulance driver working for the Italian army through the Great War in the semi-autobiographical A Farewell to Arms, incorporating elements of his own experience in the war into that of his narrator Fredric Henry. At the beginning of Chapter Twenty-One, death and destruction is mentioned only before a one-sided conversation with a British major that leaves Henry bored. This passage also portrays Hemingway’s dark but witty style through his discursive and wistful tone, varied figures of speech, and repetitive and violent diction to indicate the uncertainty of his narrator’s situation.

In this time of feudalism, people knew Henry V as an important leader who gives his glory and honor to not only a few individuals, but to each and every person who is serving physically as a knight and doing any actions made to build status into their country. The speech that he gives before the battle clearly states the loyal characteristics on how much of hard work he put into training his men whether they were from noble birth or from the poorest and lowest of classes. With the following statements, they show his gamely character meaning to speak out with courage with a purpose. First, he states how he and his army can have the achievement they fight for even if there are only a few men to fight in a chaotic battle like this, then he forms a type of honorable day and group remembered for fighting in this battle dead or alive, so that there would be no level on which individual was better than the other, and last he makes it loud and clear that he would even treat those men as if they were his brothers because they were the only few men that would support him and fight with him against their enemies. The three big examples here are the political expectations on what a group of men needs from a leader like Henry V and a true king with the power of his absolute anarchy.

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Hemingway used his experiences during war to write some of his most remarkable novels. It has been said that, “No American writer is more associated with writing about war in the early 20th century than Ernest Hemingway. He experienced it firsthand, wrote dispatches from innumerable frontlines, and used war as a backdrop for many of his most memorable works.” (Putnam). Hemingway uses characters from his stories, In A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Sun Also Rises to show the untold, unglamorous and unspoken of aspects of war and the effects it has on people, both soldiers and bystanders. Hemingway wants his readers to know that war is not what people make it out to be; that people should know that war is gritty instead of glamourous. That all injuries from the war are not physical but mental and emotional as well. Hemingway shows his readers the unspoken truths of war through his novels.