모던이즘과 A Farewell to Arms = Modernism and A Farewell to Arms

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Modernism And A Farewell to Arms song Tae-jong
The individual in the chaotic society of a 20th century situation was the real custodian of human values. In this sense, modernist writers showed strongly a self-conscious element and a highly individualistic sense in the modernist's literary production. The movement towards sophistication and mannerism, towards introversion, technical display, internal self-scepticism, has often been taken as a common base for a definition of modernism. The main characteristics of modernism are acute cognition of many problems in arts and ceaseless self-consciousness not to be frustrated under any challengers.
Especially, Hemingway constantly asserts that writing is a form of truth telling, but in this regard he has rarely been credited with the sophisticated self-awareness of literary modernism. This is a recognizable version of the morality of art, a fundamental element of the modernist aesthetic. At the same time, Hemingway's insistence on the importance of what is known-on what, in the deepest sense, is true-establishes a connection between his modernism and something earlier, something more specifically American. He acquired his modernism in Paris from writers who were either expatriates or Europeans, as well as through Ezra Pound and Sherwood Anderson. These literary modernist development in Hemingway's writing was proved excellently in the Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. He also was sustaining such a literary mode in For whom The Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.
In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway suggests the following : Henry's realization of society and the hypocrisy of the Italian Army in the war and Henry's powerful antagonistic consciousness against the absurd war : Henry's escape and search for separate peace from this disillusive situations and human double masquerade. Heminggway idealizes the romantic and tragic Catherine, emphasizes her self-sacrifice, her physical attributes, explains her impulsive involvement with Henry. And Catherine has a series of uncontrollable hemorrhages that lead to her death. She dies after Henry escapes from the war. Though she separates Henry, the punitive death of Catherine and her son suggests Hemingway's rejection of them.
Henry's friendship with other Characters fuse into individualistic and transcendental ethic rather than assuming a conciliatory attitude of universal and immoral ethic of society. They present to us the "Hemingway Code" of man's life which is formed on the basis of the characters sense of existential ethics.
In this perspective, this novel seems to be the great literary achivement in the moderhist period.