The Role of Women in The Wars Just as the First World War almost exclusively directly involved men, The Wars is primarily male focused novel. However, there are a select number of women who play significant roles in the plot. Women are used to...

Although each historical fiction story based on war has different characters, settings, and sub-plots, certain elements are common among other stories and those of Timothy Findley’s The Wars. The elements make Findley’s fictional tale seem more...

An individual’s actions and thoughts are often products of one’s nurture and experiences. These can provide a path to one’s destiny. In his novel The Wars, Timothy Findley explores the origin of Robert Ross’s incentives and investigates his...

With the imminent threat of global war looming over Europe, fear and hostility came to cast a shadow over the continent. A war that would almost decimate a generation of young men, became the reality for writers, poets, scholars, and artists who...

Timothy Findley’s, The Wars, is an intriguing novel that outlines the physical and internal battles of individuals during World War I. This novel focuses on the troubled life, the main character, Robert Ross, leads as he tries to escape his guilt...

Many can agree that naiveté is a form of innocence and it diminishes when humans are forced to face circumstances that may cause questions about oneself and the world around them, causing such perspective and morals to change. Innocence is...

It is a widespread belief that war brings peace through destruction, however, in certain circumstances, the destruction is so great that no amount of peace can reconcile the lives and emotion lost. In the short story "War", Timothy Findley writes...