A Farewell to Arms | The Theme of the Undefeated in Hemingway’s Work: How Moral Values Prevail Over the Material
R. Moore explores the theme of personal honor in A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises.
Heroism is the essential theme of Hemingway’s novelistic output. Although some will say his longer work deals primarily with death or the efforts of a “lost generation,” the overriding concern in books like The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms is personal honor. For Hemingway’s hero the traditional external sanctions of religion and similar cultural values have disappeared. They have been replaced by a concern of how a man shall live and die on a planet...
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