A Farewell to Arms as a Modern Romeo and Juliet A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway, is a typical love story. A Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick Henry and Juliet is Catherine Barkley. Their love affair must survive the obstacles of World War I. The background of war-torn Italy adds to the tragedy of the love story. The war affects the emotions and values of each character. The love between Catherine and Frederick must outlast long separations, life-threatening wartime situations, and the uncertainty of each other's whereabouts or condition. This novel is a beautiful love story of two people who need each other in a period of upheaval. Frederick Henry is an American who serves as a lieutenant in the Italian army to a group of ambulance drivers. Hemingway portrays Frederick as a lost man searching for order and value in his life. Frederick disagrees with the war he is fighting. It is too chaotic and immoral for him to rationalize its cause. He fights anyway, because the army puts some form of discipline in his life. At the start of the novel, Frederick drinks and travels from one house of prostitution to another and yet he is discontent because his life is very unsettled. He befriends a priest because he admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifestyle. Further into the novel, Frederick becomes involved with Catherine Barkley. He slowly falls in love with her and, in his love for her, he finds commitment. Their relationship brings some order and value to his life. Compared to this new form of order in his life, Frederick sees the losing Italian army as total chaos and disorder where he had previously seen discipline and control. He can no longer remain a part of something that is so disorderly and so, he deserts the Italian army. Frederick's desertion from the Italian army is the turning point of the novel. This is the significance of the title, A Farewell to Arms. WHEN YOU USE SOMEONE ELSES WRITING OR WORDS YOU MUST PUT THOSE WORDS INTO QUOTES AND GIVE THE AUTHORS NAME AND WHERE YOU FOUND THE QUOTE. When Frederick puts aside his involvement in the war, he realizes that Catherine is the order and value in his life and that he does not need anything else to give meaning to his life. At the conclusion of this novel, Frederick realizes that he cannot base his life on another person or thing because, ultimately, they will leave or disappoint him. He realizes that the order and values necessary to face the world must come from within himself. Catherine Barkley is an English volunteer nurse who serves in Italy. She is considered very experienced when it comes to love and loss since she has already been confronted with the death of a loved one when her fiancé was killed earlier in the war. The reader is not as well acquainted with Catherine's inner thoughts and feelings as we are with those of Frederick. The story is told through Frederick's eyes and the reader only meets Catherine through the dialogue between her and Frederick or through his personal interpretations of her actions. Catherine already possesses the knowledge that her own life cannot be dependent on another. She learned this lesson through the death of her fiancé. Her love for Frederick is what her life revolves around, yet she knows not to rely on him to be the order in her life. Had she been dependent on Frederick for the order in her life, she would not have been able to allow him to participate in the war for fear of losing her own stability with his death. The theme that Hemingway emphasizes throughout the novel is the search for order in a chaotic world. Hemingway conveys this through Frederick's own personal search during the chaos of World War I. Catherine has found strength within herself to lead her through life. This is what Frederick must come to realize. THESE SENTENCES WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD MATERIAL FOR AN INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH FOCUSING ON HENRYS DISCIPLINE. Through his involvement with Catherine, Frederick slowly finds his own inner strength. Frederick's affair with Catherine prompts him to leave his wild life of prostitutes and drink. He becomes aware of an element of stability in their affair and realizes that the war that he was involved in was too chaotic, so he deserts the army. He and Catherine make a life for themselves totally isolated from everything and everyone else. Frederick believes that his life is now completely in order and that his values are in perspective, yet he still seems discontented. He continuously has to convince himself that he has "a fine life." He has not yet reached Catherine's level that enables her to be perfectly happy in their love and yet not dependent on it for all comfort and support. Frederick still has to find that within himself. Until the conclusion of the novel, Frederick still relies on Catherine as the source of order in his life. With the end of their affair when Catherine dies giving birth to their stillborn love child, Frederick realizes that he cannot depend on any one person, such as Catherine, or any thing, such as religion, war, or frivolity, for order and discipline. Hemingway describes Frederick's enlightenment best in the final paragraph of the novel when Frederick sees Catherine's corpse for the first and last time. Frederick's reaction was that "it was like saying good-by to a statue." YOU SHOULD CITE ALL QUOTES. IN PARENTHESES, AFTER THE QUOTE, GIVE THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR AND THE PAGE NUMBER ON WHICH THE QUOTE CAN BE FOUND. Frederick realizes that Catherine was only a symbol of the order and strength in his life. Strength to face life must come from within him and only he will be able to get himself through his own life. He will have to learn to depend on himself. Frederick realizes this and is able to get on with his life. "After a while [he] went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." AGAIN YOU NEED TO CITE THE AUTHOR AND PAGE NUMBER. He did not mourn or feel like his own life had ended with her death, rather he was able to continue on with his newfound inner strength and face his world alone. This novel succeeds in getting Hemingway's message across. Frederick's realization causes the reader to reflect on his/her own life and on what institutions they depend on in his or her own lives. BE CAREFUL WITH NOUN PLURAL/SINGULAR AGREEMENT. I enjoyed this novel because I learned along with Frederick that I must face my life on my own. The strength to face my problems cannot come from any other source because no other source can ever be as permanent as the strength that I can find within myself. THE CONCLUSION IS GOOD. YOUR PARAGRAPHS NEED TO BE BETTER ORGANIZED TO SHOW THE CHANGE OF HENRYS FOCUS FOR DISCIPLINE AND ORDER. HENRY BEGINS THE NOVEL FOCUSING HIS DISCIPLINE AND ORDER ON THE ARMY, IT THEN SWITCHES TO CATHERINE AND FINALLY TO HIMSELF. YOUR PARAGRAPHS SHOULD REFLECT THIS CHANGE. DEVOTE A SEPARATE PARAGRPH TO EACH FOCUS, ONE FOR THE ARMY, A SECOND FOR CATHERINE AND A THIRD PARAGRAPH FOR HENRY, HIMSELF. DO NOT JUMP FROM FOCUS TO FOCUS. BE SURE TO UNDERLINE TITLES OF NOVELS. ALSO, AN EXTRA LINE SPACE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS IS NOT NEEDED. THE INDENTATION IS ENOUGH TO SIGNAL A NEW PARAGRAPH. AN EXAMPLE OF A CITED QUOTE: In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains (Hemingway 3). YOU ONLY MENTION THE LOVE STORY THEME IN THE INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH. YOU ALSO NEED A THESIS STATEMENT. EITHER CREATE A THESIS STATEMENT FOR THE LOVE STORY THEME OR FOR THE THEME THAT YOU DISCUSS IN THE BODY OF YOUR PAPER. AN EXAMPLE OF A THESIS STATEMENT ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A LOVE STORY COULD BE: THE NOVEL IS TYPICAL ROMEO AND JULIET LOVE STORY BECAUSE FREDERICK AND CATHERINE ARE BOTH STAR CROSSED LOVERS, THEIR FLIRTATION QUICKLY TURNS INTO AN INTENSE LOVE AFFAIR AND BOTH HEMINGWAYS AND SHAKESPEARS LOVE STORIES DEVELOP AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF TURMOIL. IF YOU WISH TO DEVELOP THE DISCIPLINE OF HENRY THEN YOU SHOULD DEVELOP A THESIS STATEMENT CONCERNING THAT TOPIC. THE WORDS IN BOLD APPEAR TO BE ANOTHERS WORDS AND NOT YOUR OWN AND THEREFORE MUST BE CITED.
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He creates a vision of relief at the beginning of the passage by means of diction, similes, and an impeccable amount of imagery. Douglass also applies an approach for the application of syntax, diction, and connotative sense to amplify the feelings of loneliness and paranoia presented after emancipation. The result is the masterpiece that fluently runs from one state of mind following his escape to another. It is a masterpiece with a timeless sense of moral values being unconsciously taught to its audience, whether or not they succeed in deciphering it. Works Cited Frederick Douglass.
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened," Hemingway wrote just five years after publishing A Farewell to Arms, a novel written about the war in Italy, which is ironic because A Farewell to Arms can be seen as a semi-autobiographical novel, as some of the events that occur in the novel are based off of Hemingway's own life. The parallels from the novel and Hemingway's life are evident-- the protagonist, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, is an ambulance driver in the Italian army, just as Hemingway himself was an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, serving in Italy. Hemingway also fell in love with a nurse, however her name was not Catherine Barkley, as it is in the novel, it was Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway and Kurowsky's love has been described as both "a passionate love affair" and "a simple romantic interlude." Hemingway seems to have based his protagonist's love interest on Agnes, as well as one of his wives (Mellow, 47-68). Even though Hemingway seems to have based his characters on real people, some argue that his female characters are one-dimensional and flat, and the male characters other than the protagonist are stereotypical and base. Ernest Hemingway, in his novel A Farewell to Arms, characterizes males and females in several ways, typically sticking to the stereotypes he is known for, the virile, strong male, and the passive, weak female; the main female character, Catherine Barkley seems to adhere to this stereotype for the entirety of the novel, but the protagonist, Lieutenant Frederic Henry evolves, sometimes playing this role, but in other instances opening up in ways Hemingway's male characters typically do not.
A contrast in personalities is presented in the ways Frederic and Catherine are playing opposite roles in the relationship in the relationship. In a “normal” relationship between a man and a woman, the man is the one who takes care of the women and all that, but in this relationship it is reversed. Frederic is an ambulance officer for the Italian Army and Catherine is his nurse. Any time Frederic is injured, Catherine is there to help him out and care for him. Not only does Catherine take care of his physical state, but she also takes care of his emotional state. Whenever Frederic is feeling down, Catherine is there to cheer him up. Catherine maturely decides to make a commitment, to love someone who she knows does not love her back, and to take full reponsibility for her actions throughout, including the pregnancy that occurs (Hays-55).
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A Farewell to Arms is a love story during World War I. The novel is centered on Lieutenant Fredric Henry, an American who has volunteered for the Italian army driving ambulances in Europe because the United States has not yet entered the war. Fredric is known as being a lost man searching for order and value in his life. He is very subdued and does not care about himself or about the war. In the first book of the novel, Fredric is characterized, along with the other characters. Throughout the first book, Fredric takes a leave of absence from the war and travels the country looking for his purpose in life.
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