Trauma And Tragic Romance in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
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2018-06
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Khaoula.
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This thesis explores how contemporary fiction provides new perspectives of the first world war by engaging with narrative which reflects the life of soldiers in the trenches and considering the ways in which trauma narrative contributes on the representation of the real image of the world.In this study we will show how contemporary conflict and its impacts on society are negociated through interpretations of the WWI since the novel reflects some issues and social concerns as Trauma.Trauma survivors go through different forms of traumatic experiences and such kind of experiences become an issue that can be discussed when reading a literary work which appeared in the years that follow the war.Many writers who lived in a war period wanted to demonstrate their terrible events which let them to be shocked,even years later.Those memories bring a strong feeling for writers who challenge them selves to demonstrate the historical events through trauma narrative in which they relive the war trauma.Trauma narrative enables us to know more about their terrible memories that can not be fully grasped as they occurred,but return later in a kind of nightmares and flashbacks.The historical events seemed to be unforgotten because they had a great influence on the memory of those people.Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms (1929) is an attempt to convey historical events and the traumatic experiences of the protagonist Henry,an ambulance driver.Hemingway used his A Farewell to Arms to recall his terrible trauma of war and to bring back the unforgotten memories of the first world war (1914-1918) which were almost destructive.The novel considered in this study draws some aspects of war and shows the impact of the first world war.
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Key words: Contemporary fiction.Trauma.Trauma narratives.Historical events.A Farewell to