The Theme of the Spanish Civil War in E. Hemingway’s Novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”

Abstract

This article analyzes the novel by E. Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, as well as the analysis of the main characters and characters of the novel against the background of the Spanish Civil War. Ernest Hemingway knew firsthand what war is and what it is. He was a participant in the First World War. He experienced a painful and painful life in the trenches, was wounded. Hemingway went to war as a volunteer in the American Red Cross detachment. His first military experience, and he will have quite a few of them, he reflected in the novel “Goodbye, weapons!”. This book, which became a slogan of protest against the war, brought him worldwide fame. It contains the mental suffering of the heroes, which the author himself experienced on the battlefields. This book is about a common human tragedy, where there is a bitter hopeless conclusion: “When people bring so much courage to this world, the world must kill them to break them…He kills the kindest, and the tenderest, and the bravest indiscriminately.”