Importance of Streams of Consciousness in A Farewell To Arms
Suddenly, it enters your thoughts and streams throughout your mind; you begin to think, you are in a stream of consciousness. You are in your own world of random words and sentences, amounting to nothing, and at times making all the sense in your world, a world that only exists within your mind. That is exactly how a stream of consciousness works, according to Charles Bohner and Dean Dougherty (1216). Ernest Hemingway himself traverses into three streams of consciousness of his own in order to develop Henry's character and the over all theme of A Farewell to Arms, war and love and all feelings in between. For instance, while Henry is not really required to go to war, he volunteers, without thinking of the consequences and horrors of war. However, along the way, he manages to encounter love, incur physical pain, and realize the horrors of war. And so, having to face a possible death while at the front, Henry finds himself in an extraordinary position. He is somewhere between life and death and while between these two extremes his experiences shapes him into a more mature character.
His first experience happens as follows:
A flash [...] and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind [...] I felt myself rush bodily out of myself and out and out and out and all the time bodily in the wind. I went out swiftly, all of myself, and I knew I was dead [...] Then I floated, and instead of going on I felt myself slide back. I breathed and I was back. (Hemingway 54)
Looking at this first example of a stream of consciousness, one does not know what to make of such a statement, what has happen...
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...ture, hardened man, but also help develop much of the theme of the novel, which deals with the love that exists between Henry and Catherine and the horrors of the ensuing war all around them.
Works Cited
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. Dir. Charles Vidor. Perf. Rock Hudson,
Jennifer Jones, and Vittoro De Sica. 20th Century Fox. The Selznick Studio
Videocassette, 1957.
Bohner, Charles and Dean Dougherty, eds. Short Fiction Classic and Contemporary. 4th
ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957.
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