Spanish Civil War & A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms told the story of an American professor who sympathized with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and who entered the battle as an antifascist. Hemingway was a realist in the way he developed his fiction and a strong stylist whose use of language was distinctive, though very difficult to imitate. However, the naturalism that usually infused his work was mitigated in this novel by the overall romantic idealism that permeated the work and the actions of its protagonist. The Spanish Civil War was a touchstone in Hemingway's life, and he himself entered that war much as does his character, Robert Jordan. Hemingway had a particular view of himself which helps shape his fiction and his philosophy, and though he could not always live up to the image he created, he explored that image in his works. The novel was published at a time when the United States was debating whether to enter World War II, and critics debated the merits of this novel in the same light, some finding evidence that Hemingway was critical of Republicanism because he included details of atrocities they had committed, and some seeing his work as clearly antifascist. The title alone shows the work to be a call to arms, suggesting that the United States could not ignore what was happening in Europe and had to enter the fray on the right side. The naturalism of the novel is found in the setting and the elemental passions of the characters, and ov
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an turn (Hemingway 43).
This realization creates a sense of duty and responsibility--the job is all that matters, and the job must be done to fulfill the needs of the whole human race.
The nature of Robert Jordan as a character reflects elements of Hemingway himself, and these same general characteristics are found in many Hemingway heroes. Malcolm Cowley notes that the fight of Robert Jordan at the bridge comes as the culmination of a series of events in the novel but also as the culmination of events that had taken place through several previous books by Hemingway:
Most of Hemingway's early heroes are aspects of the same person, whether we call him Nick Adams or Frederic Henry or Jake Barnes, and of course he reappears in Robert Jordan. The hero's adventures began in Michigan, but they reached their first climax in A Farewell to Arms, when, falsely charged with being a spy, he deserted from the Italian army (and also, in a sense, from organized society . . . Hemingway's books are interconnected in several fashions; the connections are what many critics miss by their canoneering (Cowley 166).
ROBERT JORDAN
Jordan continues the story of the Hemingway hero in a new way with the connection made in this novel to the responsibili
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Approximate Word count = 3143
Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)
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