Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Blog Topic #4: Text Connections
The relationship between love and pain is present in everyday life all around the world. Love is something that everyone wants to feel and experience at some point in their life, and everyone wants to avoid pain as much as possible, but these two are eternally linked. The backdrop of this novel is the middle of a war zone, where anyone can die at any moment, breaking the hearts of the loved ones left behind. In the beginning of A Farewell to Arms, Catherine announces to Henry that she is in mourning for her dead fiancé, but immediately after this announcement, she begins a game that is meant to seduce Henry. This shows that she wants to distance herself from the pain of her loss. The tragedy of this novel rests in the fact that their love can never more than temporary in this world. In today’s society, people risk it all. They want to be both romantic lovers and lovers of human kind. Even when they make mistakes and sometimes are not what they want to be, they keep on trying. People are willing to risk the love that they have worked so hard to receive, even with tragedy exploding all around them.
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I like your text connection and agree with your analysis. Although this is a war story it also is a love story and people who have experienced it during war time can relate. I agree with your anaylsis of Catherine distancing herself from the pain of her loss. At the end in the hospital, Henry seems to do the same, instead of grieving and crying over the deaths of his wife and newborn child, he just sits there and contemplates death, claiming that it is just a part of life.
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