It is sarcastic to note that while Hemingway reveals the characters appear to be uncertain about their masculinity, he portrays Brett as manlier than the men. ![]() And as for the rest they seek masculinity in targeting Cohn as he behaves unmanly by following Brett around. Such violence can be depicted in Robert Cohn’s boxing fights engaged with fighting Jake, Mike and Romero and thus violating his ethics in order to gain his masculinity back after he has lost it in following Brett around moreover, Pedro Romero’s bullfights engaged in killing the bulls in a bloody violent unmerciful battle in order that he can portray his masculinity to the audience. Hemingway does not state this directly but he portrays it through the act of the characters in his novel. Seek of masculinity which every male in life needs lead male characters in the novel participate in violence. And finally, for Bill, Mike and Robert Cohn they could not find Brett’s love strong. And for Pedro Romero, Brett choses to leave him because she cannot ruin his life. For Jake as we know he is impotent and Brett’s love for him cannot win the fact that she can never have any sexual relationship with Jake Brett cannot stand a platonic affair with Jake. However, each male fails to win Brett’s love and as soon as they manage to succeed, a problem steps on their way, and Brett is no longer their own. Brett is a target for every male in this novel to achieve and have a relationship with. Brett is a woman that Hemingway chooses to portray as the independent mature woman. He is only interested in how to live with it now, in a place where the war has left him damaged both physically and psychologically.Īnother kind of violence Hemingway holds in this story is unsuccessful relationships. All I wanted to know was how to live in it” (152). However, Jake does not care about all these seemingly lost values: “I did not care what it was all about. Jake is also a member of the lost generations where people after War World I have lost their faith, values and morality life for them now seems to be meaningless. Jake’s wound left him destroyed emotionally and anxious over his masculine performance. Jake’s injury made him feel “less masculine” and that he has to accept Brett’s refusal of entering a relationship with him. This injury makes it impossible for him to have a sexual relationship with Brett, the woman who he loves. He becomes impotent and is unable to intercourse. He is a World War I veteran who has suffered an injury in his genitals this injury makes him emasculated. In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, violent masculinity is portrayed through the hero Jake Barnes. Violence theme emerges strongly in Hemingway’s novels and short stories from killing in bullfights to haunting, fishing, boxing and war. Hemingway suggests that violence of various kinds such as war, pain, illness, death, masculinity or emasculation, unsuccessful relationships and the ‘lost generation,” are the way one cannot but just accepts and lives to survive. Thus, the heroes’ notions are formed by their view of violence. In Hemingway’s novels, the world of violence are impossible to escape. And through these protagonists’ acts, Hemingway shows us the hidden theme of violence. In both of his works The Sun Also Rises and In Our Times, the “Indian Camp,” he recruits one protagonist in each story Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises and Nick Adams in the “Indian Camp”. ![]() He tells only the surface leaving the deep meaning hidden from us to conceive. What makes it special is that he writes and then he avoids direct statements and descriptions of emotion. In the one hand, the successful American novelist and the Noble prize winner, Hemingway, has establishes himself a writing style. This essay will also take a small step and explain how and why modernist author take this theme of violence so seriously in their narratives. It will depict the differences and similarities between them. This essay will compare and contrast the way violence is portrayed in both of the authors, Ernest Hemingway and Nathanael West’s works. Each modernist author has his own way of how he handles this theme of violence, and how his own formal properties of his work helps us conceive the theme of violence. In the late 19th and early 20th and after World War I, violence of various kinds has set as one of the major themes of literary modernist’s novels/short stories.
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