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    comprehended only in the epiphany at the end of each person’s time? An ongoing skirmish occurs in every man’s mentality‚ victory‚ never found‚ until death is upon the individual. Ernest Hemmingway’s main character‚ Robert Jordan‚ in his novel‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ portrays his internal war with death through imagery‚ personification‚ and symbolism. When at war in a foreign country‚ images of recollections are the thread that attaches an entity to authentic life and contentment‚ as does the same coping

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    “Up in Michigan‚” one of Hemingway’s earliest stories‚ it is a tale of a romantic encounter and the disillusionment the results from it. Liz obsessed with Jim‚ the town blacksmith‚ has a lot words and behaving as tries to tempt he to have sex with her. The struggle which Liz Coates faces between her sexual attraction to Jim Gilmore and her naïve inexperience is embodied in the gloomy and uninviting setting. Liz’s words and action are obsessed or tempts Jim. She works at the kitchen door and she

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    first read it. In fact‚ it wasn’t really relevant until midway through the novel. Only once the plot had progressed did the epigraph unlock an underlying theme. The epigraph in For Whom the Bell Tolls is applicable at the very beginning of the novel. For starters‚ the mention of the bell‚ which I assumed to mean a funeral bell‚ brings the theme of death to the forefront of the reader’s mind before the first chapter even starts. Once the story begins‚ the theme of death is clearly relevant as we enter

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    In Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ he gives a story of the stress and strife during a war between fascists groups. The drama and emotion every character displays shows their own individuality and their importance to accomplishing the ultimate goal. Women‚ during this time‚ played a major role in easing the men’s emotions. Before one can compare the role of Maria to Pilar‚ they must first know what the role of a typical spanish women during the spanish civil war. Many spanish women not

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    Response to “For Whom the Bell TollsJohn Donne’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a very deep poem‚ and it’s difficult to understand if you only read it once. It focuses on how all humans have a connection to one another; if one person dies‚ the entire population is affected. In 1623‚ Donne was extremely ill with malarial fever‚ and he wrote the meditation during recovery. He observed that every death diminishes the fabric of humanity. He wrote about the tolling of a church bell‚ representing a funeral

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    minimal degree of appropriateness for the author to include it in his work‚ and this is especially true for Ernest Hemingway in the case of For Whom the Bell Tolls. The most prevailing theme in the novel is the loss of innocence in war‚ which‚ at some point during the story‚ happens to every character. Hence it is not surprising that For Whom the Bell Tolls is rich in imagery‚ motifs‚ and symbolism. Using these literary devices Hemingway paints a clear picture of humanity‚ and doing so unmasks the

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    effective‚ and natural translation. It is the duty of translation critics to assess the quality of the translations produced in order for the translators to be able to enhance the quality of their translations. In this paper the translation of for whom the bell tolls written by Ernest Hemingway and translated by Dr. Ali Salimi has been evaluated. First the biography of the writer and a short discussion about the title has been given ‚ then a summary of the book and some background information about it as

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    John Austin Men at War: MW 9:30 – 10:45 8 October 2003 Disillusionment in Hemingway ’s For Whom the Bell Tolls In the late 1930 ’s‚ Spain was in the midst of a civil war. The country had been in a state of disarray since 1931‚ when King Alfonso XIII went into voluntary exile. This was followed by a five-year power struggle between the fascists‚ led by General Francesco Franco‚ and the Republicans. This struggle became violent in the summer of 1936‚ and the war lasted until 1939‚ when

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    exposure except through writers such as Ernest Hemingway. In For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ Hemingway captivates the realism of war through his own eyes. Drawing from his own observation and experiences as an ambulance driver‚ Hemingway shows the psychological damage of war through the destruction of human lives‚ uncommitted relationships‚ and lack of confidence. Hemingway’s novel is so true to his own that many consider For Whom the Bell Tolls an autobiographical piece of writing with different characters

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    very hard to focus on the joy and encouragement found in the work. For Whom the Bell Tolls is full of love and beauty‚ but is so greatly overshadowed by this lingering feeling of doom--a feeling that does not let you enjoy reading‚ for you are always waiting for the let down‚ a chance for human nature to go horribly awry. This feeling is broken up into three specific areas. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ humanity is exploited through brutal violence‚ unnecessary courage‚ and

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