A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

In the Novel “A Farewell To Arms,” the author Ernest Hemingway creates a passionate and romantic love relationship between Lt Henry and Catherine. This love relationship, which is birth in the middle of the most gruesome and violent war that history has ever come to know. World War one, is said to account for one of the largest death tolls in American history wars in. When reading the novel, the author sets the setting in a beautiful place that has mountains, valleys, and flower plants growths. This beautiful place name Goritzia, is as beautiful in the novel as it is in real life. This reason can lead to the understanding on why the author chooses the Italy, during WWI, as the setting. Further, we can understand that realism is ultimately the major emphasis in the novel “A Farewell To Arms.” This is why, Hemingway use of correct basic elements in writing, like realism, create a positive influence in students' understanding.

To understand realism in the novel, “A Farewell To Arms,” we most understand realism itself. Realism is set to begin around 19 centuries, according to J. A. Cuddon the author of the book “A DICTIONARY OF LITERARY TERMS.” Cuddon explains that, “ literature is the portrayal of life with fidelity.”(Cuddon553) In other words, the re-creation of actual life in theme, situations, moods, actions, and characterizations within a novel. For this reason, we can see that Hemingway uses realism to portray not only the war, but the actions and reactions of the characters of the novel were meant to reflect those of real life. When Hemingway uses the conflict of the war between 1914-18 known as, WWI, he is using literacy realism. According to the author Peter Hart in the book “The Great War,” Italy singed a treaty de...

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