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Religion in A Farewell to Arms
Title: Religion in A Farewell to Arms
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2054 | Pages: 8.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Religion in A Farewell to Arms
Humanities: Representing War in the 20th Century
Religion in "A Farewell to Arms"
For hundreds of years, writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter, Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude and in other writings, and even Ernest Hemingway used his writing to develop his own ideas concerning the church. This is fully evident in …showed first 75 words of 2054 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2054 total…pages. Henry's strongest sense of devotion in the book is to Catherine, and in this way love for him is a "religious" feeling, but by no other definition of the word is this true. The priest nicely expresses Hemingway's message when he says, "there in my country it is understood that a man may love God. It is not a dirty joke" (71). The frontlines are no place for religion. God has no place in war.
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