The Development of Frederic Henry's Death Consciousness and the Related Reasons in A Farewell t

• 作 者: 史林
• 机 构: School of Foreign Languages and Literature,Beijing Normal University,
• 出 处: 海外英语
• 发表日期: 2010年09期
• 关键词: Frederic Henry death consciousness dominant motif

Frederic Henry,the hero in Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms,demonstrates the author’s dominant motif of a man who is forced to recognize the inevitability of death and the futility of trying to escape from it.This essay divides the development of Frederic Henry’s death consciousness into three stages and analyzes his psychological features of each stage.

Frederic Henry, the hero in Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms, demonstrates the author’s dominant motif of a man who is forced to recognize the inevitability of death and the futility of trying to escape from it. This essay divides the development of Frederic Henry’s death consciousness into three stages and analyzes his psychological features of each stage.