Ernest Hemingway was best known for his suspicious portrayal of war and those who were unlucky enough to survive it. He had such a universal language in his writing and eliminated virtually all embellishment. His style left so much to be unraveled by the reader’s perspective and it is quite easy to miss his meaning entirely. The literary movement most closely linked to Hemingway is Modernism. Though many of his writings fall into this period I believe he was much more involved in developing his own movement rather than falling into line with other authors of his time. He lived such a disillusioned life and he poured his soul into his literature. He was so close to war and the effects it brought on an individual that it actually took over his conscious.
Modernists believe that all things are relative and that the world is how we perceive it to be. They celebrate inner strength and rebel against many political and social views. Hemingway absolutely believed in inner strength and virtually every protagonist of his will show this fact to be true. Hemingway is constantly searching for the answer as to why the war happened. What was the point, it only seemed to ruin men if they survived the horrors. Hemingway believed that we all were in a perpetual struggle with death and ultimately we would all lose this war. He wrote with such coldness such a lack of feeling that only makes the reader think more deeply about what he is actually meaning to say. In the end his life inner battle with himself got the best of him and he was forced to end his life tragically. He had changed literature forever by the time of his death and will always be spoken of in high regard.
Works Cited:
http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/oal/lit6.htm
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-article.html
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