For Whom the Bell Tolls | Themes
The novel's primary theme is concisely expressed in the John Donne passage which provides the title and the epigraph:
No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse . . . any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Examined closely, this epigraph suggests all of the major themes: the centrality of the Spanish tragedy to European and world...
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