Associate Professor, S.V. College of Engineering and Technology, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India
Online published on 23 December, 2013.
Hemingway's fiction is preoccupied with violence, brutality, wounding, killing and suicide, because his tender and sensitive mind was outraged by the brutality and violence which he witnessed on the battle-field and the bull-ring. Besides this he has witnessed in his life time was chrystal clearly portrayed the contemporary ills of his age. He looked behind the civilized façade and found violence in the world. Hemingway thought that war was the greatest subject because it groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff normally you have to wait a lifetime to get. Hemingway deals with the theme of war, violence and death, because he always searched for extreme emotional states in acts of physical tension. Hemingway's work shows affinity with existentialism, which originated in the European experience of the twentieth century. Hemingway has been upheld as an existentialist novelist by virtue of his expatriation, his instinctual acknowledgement of the tragedy of meaninglessness, and the necessity to overcome despair.
Existentialism, alienation, neurotic, catharsis, nightmare, compassion, fortitude, transcendental, communism, affirmation, illustration, discernible, disillusioned, endures, assertion
