Abstract

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.

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  • Ernest Hemingway, an American author, produced several masterpieces like AFarewell To Arms, The Old man and the Sea, and The Sun Rises and besides all these novels he wrote considerable short stories in the history of literature

  • As Hemingway himself struggled a lot throughout his life, he knew the importance of love and peace in man's life

  • Frederic Henry is the narrator in the novel

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Farewell To Arms, The Old man and the Sea, and The Sun Rises and besides all these novels he wrote considerable short stories in the history of literature. As Hemingway himself struggled a lot throughout his life, he knew the importance of love and peace in man's life. Love as a central theme of A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms published in 1929 that displays the Italian campaign of World War I.

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