Love and War in A Farewell to Arms War is a terrible event that can have a drastic effect on the soldiers who participate. ... In his novel, A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway exhibits this destruction with the theme of love as a response to the horrors of war and the world. ... "A Farewell to Arms was dominated by an atmosphere of Gothic ruin, boredom, sterility, and decay" (Aldridge 231). ... This sums up Hemingway's central theme about the horrific world. ... Hemingway purposely makes the final word of A Farewell to Arms "rain", a reminder of the destruction and death the worl...

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Many themes relating to the conflict between Good and Evil can be found in Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, Foretopman. ... Bellipotent, he calmly utters, "Goodbye, Rights of Man," a farewell to his ship and crewmates. ... Bellipotent, Billy faces destruction from a force which he does not and cannot comprehend (Gilmore 18). ... While most of the crew admired Billy for these qualities, John Claggart, Master-at-Arms for the H.M.S. ... Although many themes can be interpreted from the novella Billy Budd, it is obvious to most that the prevalent theme in the novella is the batt...

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And the qualities, which make this masterpiece of Shakespeare -Hamlet - a heroic character, have certainly laid him vulnerable to sufferings and destructions in his life. ... When "his father's spirit was in arms," it was not a time for the son to be with his love. ... "Sweets to the sweet farewell [Scattering flowers] I hop'd thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not to have strew'd thy grave." ... The deepest theme, masked by that of vengeance, is none other than human nature itself, confronted by ...

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