A Farewell to Arms永别了武器

Ernest Hemingwei(1899-1961) American novelist Short—story writer journalist Known as “the lost Generation”

Major works For whom the Bell Tolls The Sun Also Rises Death in the Afternoon

Pulitzer prize in 1953

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not be defeated .

This book is one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize . It was first adapted to film in1932

A Farewell to Arms is a semiautobiographical novel based on Ernest Hemingway’s true experience.

Heimingwei volunteered to serve as an ambulance driver in Italy and was badly wounded in action .he also served as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II the novel describe the events happened during the Italy campaigns Italian against Australia in the First World War(1914--1918)

Major characters Frederid Henry Catherine Barkley

A volunteer ambulance driver Lieutenant

A British volunteer nurse

Minor character:Priest nice sweet young man Rinaldi surgeon, Lieutenant

Other driversTreat the war Suspicion seriously Indifference belief crisis of people

disgust

“Abstract words such as glory, honor ,courage , or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads , the names of rivers the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.Although that ceased when the carabiniere put his hands on my collar.I would like to have had the uniform off although I did not care much about the outward forms .I had taken off the stars,but that was for convenience. It was no point of honor.”

“It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially .”

The attitude of war : full-hearted------disgustful

Two cues: 1.A Farewell to WarMajor conflict

2.A Farewell to Love

Theme:

Anti-warThe Grim Reality of War

The cruel war took Henry’s lover child and hope for furture

Symbolism: rain Catherine and Henry lie in bed listening to the storm outside.As the rain falls on the roof ,she admits that the rain scares her she dreams Henry and she died in the rain

It was dark but in the light from the window I could see it was raining I walked through the rain up to the hospital But after I had got them out and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn’t 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 the hotel in the rain.