Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

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This paper discusses theme, irony, characterization and fictional technique by the use of syntactic structure and symbolism in "For Whom the Bell Tolls", by Ernest Hemingway. The author states that this piece is a war novel, a love novel, even a historical one. Furthermore, the author asserts that this novel illustrates problems like war, death, human sacrifice, choices, the justification of killing a human being, suicide, tradition and modernization and many more, and its complex nature makes it a valuable work of American literature.

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"The novel focuses on the fight between the Loyalists and the Fascists that takes place during the Spanish Civil War. The main character, Robert Jordan, an American Spanish professor and a dynamite expert, offers his services to the guerillas. Their common mission is to bomb a bridge, a difficult task that they have to accomplish in only three days. Their goal seems threatened by the attacks of the Fascists on the one hand, and the frequent quarrels in their own camp, caused mainly by Pablo, on the other hand. During this short time, another event occurs in Robert's life: he falls in love with Maria and will have to deal with both the feeling of love for her and that of his imminent death. At the end, Robert Jordan fulfills his mission at the expense of his own life."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Donne, John. Meditation XVII. Retrieved June 2007, from John Donne. Meditation XVII: No man is an island...http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/
• Evans, Robert: Hemingway and the Pale Cast of Thought. In: American Literature. Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 161-176.
• Gurko, Leo: Reviewed Works: The Narrative Pattern in Ernest Hemingway's Novels by Chaman Nahal. In: American Literature, Vol. 44, No.1, p.165.
• Halliday, E. M.: Hemingway's ambiguity: Symbolism and irony. In: American Literature. Vol. 28, No. 1., pp. 1-22.
• Hemingway, Ernest (1940): For Whom The Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

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