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A 4 page paper which examines the significance of religion and death in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, and also discusses similar elements in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. No additional sources cited.
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confusion found in living, and in life. Ernest Hemingway was well known for his novels which presented characters who were always seeking some answer to who they were, where they
belonged, and what the purpose of life was all about. His characters are generally somewhat depressing characters who one could claim are quite Godless and thus without any real religion,
aside from the religion of drinking and seeking and women. The following paper examines the significance of religion and death in Hemingways novel and discusses it in comparison to the
same themes within Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five. Religion and Death in A Farewell to Arms and Slaughterhouse-Five The reader of Hemingways novel
is first introduced to the notion of religion within a few pages of the story. It is during a scene when the character of the priest is being harassed, ridiculed,
by many of the soldiers. In reply to the issue of religion, as well as God, the major claims, "All thinking men are atheists" (Hemingway 8). This immediately sets the
stage for seeing what the foundational perspectives of religion are in the story, despite the fact that the main character of Henry admires and likes the priest because he represents
a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature of war and what it does
to people in terms of making them question existence. In these respects it seems that God and religion have no real place
in the world these men live in, in that world of war. Death is simply that, death. And religion seems to hold no promise of anything, especially for a "thinking"
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