The First World War in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms Omar Gad College

Among all literary techniques, the irony is widely dominated the post-world war fiction. It is very significant to point out the mood of dissatisfaction and disillusionment of society which saw the disaster caused by the first World War. Through the employment of the method of irony, writers brought both the discrepancy between the ideal and reality. The primary war was projected as a golden opportunity for the youth to attain glory and process. The Americans, after removing the illusioned idealization of war, condemned the war for its inhuman violence and irrational deaths. So, as to precise this disillusionment and despair, many writers opted for the use of irony. They adopted an ironic method to reflect their vision of life after World War I. A Farewell to Arms displays a stimulating use of irony.

Ernest Hemingway, through the employment Irony, expresses his disillusionment and disenchantment with the war. He has bitterly denounced war and attacked the romantic notions associated with it and has revealed the misery and horror of it. A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929 after the First War. Hemingway suffered the traumatic shock of the primary warfare like his countrymen. War jolted him entirely and this resulted in an...