Representation of the Impact of War Violence on the Love in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction

Abdul Ghani Ahu,Hussein Mnahi Munshid

doi:10.47405/mjssh.v5i3.377

Abstract

   Ernest Hemingway's characters demonstrate the impact of war violence on the image of love through Hemingway's selected texts according to the main principles of the social psychology theory the researcher has analysed some of Hemingway's texts to offer a typical answer to the question which is to what extent the war violence influenced the image of love in Hemingway's selected novels. While going through and trace Hemingway's characters, the researcher discovers that all of them have been suffered from war violence in one way or another. The researcher has found out that most of the characters have been suffered from alienation or the emotional vacuum; others have been raped or loses innocence or become impotent or homosexual. Some findings have been illustrated to show how the image of love has been affected by the multi-faced forms of war.  

Highlights

The impact of war on the image of love as a phenomenon needs a theoretical framework to be understood
According to Bernard Weiner who was one of the most important theorists in social psychology. He developed a theory in social psychology called Attribution theory which depends on a relationship of cause and effect, it assumes that "behaviour must be observed, determined, and attributed to internal or external causes." By observing the scenes of war in some of Hemingway's novels, for instance, A Farewell to Arms that depicted World War I, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which depict The Spanish Civil War, the Sun Rises portrayed in the Second World War
Even war or conflict with nature in The Old Man and The Sea, the researcher will try to determine the effects of these wars on the protagonists of the novels in general and the image of love represented by these characters in particular

Summary

Introduction

The impact of war on the image of love as a phenomenon needs a theoretical framework to be understood. Frederic's sexual relationship with the whores due to his alienation from understanding true love as the priest predicts "what you tell me in the nights. Pilar's possible lesbian inclinations make her a potential sexual rival to Jordan for Maria's favours She assert these inclinations by saying "There is always something like that," and at the same time deny it "with me, there is not. In this quotation, Ferguson's position is clear; she has stood up against the relationship between the two lovers; it is a kind of jealousy from which it could be understood the existence of lesbian love between Catherine and Ferguson and makes the situation clear about the homosexual intends, Ferguson's lesbian feelings towards Catherine which denoted as alienation from heterosexuality because of war

Emotional Vacuum

Alienation and Morality

Conclusion