• Jigneshkumar J. Panchal

Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a modernist work. Modernism views war as a new evil that disintegrates the human life and modernism also says that man cannot transcend his environment. And so environment is an evil that is hostile to man. Times are not conducive for family or domestic life. Hemingway had zest for life and he carried out many experiments in his personal life. He believed in physical life and took active part in fishing, boxing, bull-fighting, and war. Hemingway is a legendary figure both as a writer as a man. He believed in physical life and he believed in something palpable and tangible. When someone took his writing to him, he would say “show me your wounds, your wounds will tell me whether you are fit to become a writer or not”. As a man, he was highly interested in bull-fighting, boxing and fishing which required great deal of physical strength and sound mind. Hemingway came to love life and detest death. In his novels like A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old man and the Sea, he has created an exact replica of his personality in his hero. Hemingway himself was a great lover of life and his hero also shows the same zest for life. Not only that all modernist writers make a distinction between life and death and reflect on who rules over whom; whether life rules over death or death governs life. Like other modernists Hemingway creates his own ethical code for his hero and we see him living according to that code.

Modernism, war, hostile nature of the nature, family life, survival, struggle, code hero, physical life, etc.

"War, Nature, Domestic Life and Hemingway Hero in A Farewell to Arms", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.603-606, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906T73.pdf

"War, Nature, Domestic Life and Hemingway Hero in A Farewell to Arms", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp603-606, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906T73.pdf