LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:10 October 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Oneness between Life and Death -
Ernest Hemingway’s Fictional World: An Analysis

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.

Abstract

This is an attempt to discuss how Ernest Hemingway is adept at establishing oneness between life and death as reflected in his fiction and also to examine how the post-war period has been labelled as “a Last generation” which is applied to the disillusioned intellectuals who rebelled against traditional values and ideals. Courage and strength in facing struggles and frustrations in life up to the doomsday make it a point that life and love cannot be separated from death. It shows how Hemingway’s forest is full of unseen dangers and how he takes death as seriously as life thereby establishing their oneness.

Key Words: lost generation, oneness, life and death, cynical hedonism, Hemingway hero, study of suffering, dissolution of death, obsession, morbidity.

A Lost Generation

The post-war period is labelled as “a lost generation”. ‘The lost generation’ tag is applied to the disillusioned intellectuals of the 1920’s who rebelled against traditional values and ideals, but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism. These frustrated and disenchanted youths who were uprooted during the storm of war, now allowed themselves to be blown like chaff through the early years of peace; drowned their disillusion in alcohol, slept away the days and shared their beds with a different partner each night. These American youngsters, who had a firsthand experience of war and of violence, were physically and morally wounded and it left a deep psychic scar. It altered the entire pattern of their lives because they had a harrowing experience of suffering and degradation coupled with wounds and despair in all walks of life. All experienced the same needs in meeting the struggle and frustration of twentieth century man and even men of all times. Some became involved in war, suffered wounds and were forced to reconcile the psychological disturbances created by these hurts, while others were forced to come to terms with the reality of the traumata created by the pressures of hostile environment. Hemingway belongs to the first category of men.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor, Head and Chairperson
School of English & Foreign languages & School of Indian Languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai 625021
Tamilnadu
India
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