Hemingway's Changing Views On War: A Study Of His Three Novels

The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are Hemingway's three most important novels, in which there is a great amount of content associated with war. Hemingway spent most of his life in wars: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. Not only his life was closely connected to war, his works are filled with war as well. Through research into his views on war, Hemingway's works can be better and further studied.This thesis is made up of three chapters. The introduction includes the purpose and significance of the research, the literature review of the topic, and an overview of Hemingway's life and the times he lives in. Chapter One to Chapter three explores the three novels one by one: Chapter One is devoted to The Sun Also Rises, which shows Hemingway's perplexity in his attitude to the war; Chapter Two focuses on A Farewell to Arms, which shows an antiwar attitude; and Chapter Three explores For Whom the Bell Tolls and reveals Hemingway's transition to a supportive attitude. The conclusion comes last. From the research above, it is evident that Hemingway's views on war go through three stages: the period of perplexity, the antiwar period, and the period of a supportive attitude.