Survival of civilians during the First World War as represented in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

Abstract

This bachelor paper explores the survival of civilians who appear in Hemingway’s book A Farewell to Arms. It describes important civilian protagonists and their involvement in the war during which the plot of the book takes place. The main focus in on how these characters perceive, fight for, and comment on the survival and whether they actually survive. The theoretical part focuses mainly on the author, the period of writing the novel and the influence on its composition. Furthermore, it defines historical and cultural details and gives a summary of the plot and characters. In the analytical part, both fictional and non-fictional civilian life is examined in regard to its presence in Hemingway’s major war novels. Finally, individual aspects related to surviving the war in A Farewell to Arms are analyzed.