A Farewell to Arms 硏究

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

"A Farewell to Arms" along with "The Sun Also Rises" is one of the 'best works of Ernest Hemingway who represented the thoughts and the philosophy of lost Generation emerged after the World war 1.
The Literature of Lost Generation is that of depicting the social phenomena in which the traditional standards of value in the nineteenth century such as religion, morality have been lost because of the terrible experience of the World War 1.
"A Farewell to Arms" is a tragic work based on the human conditions in the society suffering from terrible violations and calamity of the battlefield, and represents the common agonies of the post-war generations in Europe after the World War 1. This work is a parable which depicts the twentieth century's human disgust and disillusionment through the tragic love affair between Henry and Catherine in the battle field full of violations and despair.
This thesis is written for the purpose of researching what kind of philosophy and morality the hero Frederic Henry in "A Farewell to Arms" came to possess in the world of violations and despair in which nineteenth century's standards of value were completely destroyed, and how nihilism along with anti-war conception was being developed in the novel.
On the other hand, I have tried to search for the function of rain as a symbol of disaster and dimity according to the doom of the hero in "A Farewell to Arms". The theme of "A Farewell to Arms'' is, I think, a nihilistic Fatalism that we human beings can not escape from the fate of death even though we try our best to avoid it.