People often find meaning in their lives by devoting themselves to a certain passion or conviction. In Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms‚ individuals struggle to find meaning and order in an otherwise chaotic and war-torn world. For example‚ Frederic Henry‚ who has little sense of direction or purpose from his demoralization from war‚ seems to find solace in love‚ which serves as the conviction Frederic needs to obtain peace and stability. Although his attempts to find order fail and lead to
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present-day English Raymond Hickey Essen University 1 Introduction For several centuries English has been well known for its many cases of conversion‚ for instance it is used very frequently by Shakespeare‚ almost as a stylistic device of his. And to this day it has remained a prominent feature of the language. The standard definition of conversion (Bauer 1988: 90-2; Spencer 1991: 20) is a change in word-class without any alteration in form‚ i.e. zero-derivation (Cruse
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Simile - a kind of comparison in which two things are com¬pared be¬cause they have something in common though they are in all other respects different. The imagina¬tive compa¬rison is explicitly made with the help of like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. This simile suggests /implies / illustrates that ... Metaphor - a comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using the words like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is
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In Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms‚ many different themes are present throughout the book. Love‚ lust‚ nationalism‚ tragedy‚ and hatred are what I think A Farewell to Arms is based on‚ but one theme that really caught my attention was the role of religion. I though the role of religion played a big part of this story because the love that Catherine and Henry shared was extremely influenced by religion. Henry’s feelings for Catherine were not only influenced by his feelings‚ but by his
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A Farewell to Arms: Style Critics usually describe Hemingway’s style as simple‚ spare‚ and journalistic. These are all good words; they all apply. Perhaps because of his training as a newspaperman‚ Hemingway is a master of the declarative‚ subject-verb-object sentence. His writing has been likened to a boxer’s punches--combinations of lefts and rights coming at us without pause. Take the following passage: We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were
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LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES Metaphor Genuine metaphors Trite(dead) metaphors Metonymy Metonymy Metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated: ‘The White House said…’ (the American government) ; the press (newspapers and magazines); the cradle(infancy‚ place of origin);the grave(death); The hall applauded; The marble spoke; The kettle is boiling; I am fond of Agatha Christie; We didn’t speak because there were ears all around us; He was about a sentence away from
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understand the complex concept of wisdom. According to the dictionary‚ wisdom is defined as “the quality of having experience‚ knowledge‚ and good judgment” However‚ this definition takes form in many different theories. Ernest Hemingway‚ in A Farewell to Arms‚ explores different perspectives of wisdom as viewed by a young Frederic Henry and elderly Count Greffi. Some of the world’s greatest thinkers have formulated several different theories and perspectives regarding the meaning of wisdom. One theory
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A Farewell to Arms To what extent is love an escape from the horrors of war in A Farewell to Arms? In Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell To Arms‚ the love between his two protagonists Catherine Barkley and Frederic Henry begins as merely a shallow distraction and escape from the horrors of war‚ yet develops into mutual and devoted dependence‚ which is much more than a simple avoidance of the chaos and distraction around them. Love is shown to provide meaning in a hollow and empty world where
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Structure of A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms is a 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway set during World War I. The structure of the novel is mainly focused on the love story between the protagonist and his love interest catherine. It follows the structure of a dramatic tragedy: exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action and resolution or denouncement. The novel begins with exposition. Here‚ the narrator‚ which is the protagonist‚ establishes the setting. It is an Italian countryside where
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good for? Absolutely nothing!” (Bruce Springsteen) When people think of war‚ lots will think about man on the battlefield‚ dodging away for the flying bullets‚ throwing away enemy grenades and shooting the invaders of the holy fatherland. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway‚ gives a critical view on this general thought. By using different techniques‚ Hemingway states multiple times that war is sad‚ horrible‚ meaningless and that the heroic image some people have is false. During the book
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