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For Whom the Bell Tolls | An Analysis of Robert Jordan and Frederick Henry
R. Moore compares the two characters as prototypical existential rebels.
In the characters of Robert Jordan and Frederick Henry, novelist Ernest Hemingway has given us examples of the prototypical existential rebel. These figures are seen as a breed apart, men who have rejected value systems imposed upon them from the outside in favor of action determined from within themselves. In both A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, “those who adhere to the ideal of self-fullfillment are in the minority, and their very existence becomes...
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