Main Themes in a Farewell to Arms

Written in 1929 by Ernest Hemingway, A word of farewell to gird has always been considered a clean piece of literature. A major source of the novels success is how its themes tied into really life experiences during the First World warfare. While soldiers of the struggle fought for their country, they searched for love to spring total chaos and destruction. The two chief(prenominal) themes in A valediction to Arms are the gruesome reality of warfare and the relationship among love and pain. The first main theme of A valedictory to Arms is the devastation that war brings.Just as the title explains, A Farewell to Arms deals primarily with the process by which the protagonist, Frederic henry, disconnects himself from the war and leaves it behind. While thither are a few characters in the novel who actually keep going the effort, such as Ettore Moretti, a majority of the characters remain uncertain near the war, angry of the complete devastation it causes, and unconvinced of the splendor it supposedly brings. For example, part enthalpy and Passini discuss the war, Henry says, I believe we should get the war overIt would not finish if one side stopped fighting. It would precisely be worse if we stopped fighting (Chapter 9, Page 49). The second main theme of the novel is the connection between love and pain. While the war takes place, Hemingway depicts the consecutive, mysterious behavior of love. Although Catherine mourns for her dead fiance, she quickly begins to seduce Henry. Her intentions for courting Henry are obvious, that is she wants to separate herself from the pain of losing her fiance by finding a new love to fill the void.Likewise, Henry attempts to distance himself from the war as much as possible. By doing so, Henry and Catherine find comfort within separately other from the dilemmas that surround them. Just like they fell in love with each other, Henrys feelings for Catherine pass just as quickly as he witnesses her death. As he give s farewell to Catherines body, Henry says, But later on I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the devolve it wasnt any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to he hotel in the rain (Chapter 41, Page 332). Although Henry and Catherine genuinely loved each other, Henrys heart is now void without the companionship of Catherine. The tragedy of A Farewell to Arms is that their love, although authentic, can never be more than temporary. In my opinion, I enjoyed this novel for a few reasons. First, A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiography about Hemingway and his time fighting in the Italian campaigns during World War I. Secondly, the novel is able to give perspective of the troubles and triumphs of those soldiers that fought during the war.Finally, the mysterious love that Henry and Catherine have for each other proved to be interesting and unusual. In conclusion, A Farewell to Arms proved to be a mas terpiece in my opinion. While addressing the struggles and feats of those soldiers who fought during World War I, we are able to plunge into the conscious of a unique fighter who parts himself from the war as much as possible while trying to find true love, even though the reasoning behind finding love was exactly to help escape from the war.