NATURE IMAGERY IN THE WORKS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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2018
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Chitamber School of Humanities and Social Sciences SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCES ALLAHABAD 211007
Abstract
This thesis is concerned with the nature imagery in the
works of Ernest Hemingway. The study deals with how
Ernest Hemingway has handed this subject differently
than the other American prose writers and poets. The
researcher was surprised that no other authentic study
had been conducted over such an important and obvious
aspect of the writings of Ernest Hemingway.
The study is based on nine novels of Ernest Hemingway.
All the novels demonstrate his sensitivity to light, colour,
form and atmosphere. Mostly writers and poets write
about the beauty of nature that gives pleasure and
positivity to the readers and inspire them in some
manner, but Ernest Hemingway dealt with the dark side
of nature. He connected the different shades of nature
with life, death, wars, bullfights etc. A reality which was
sad, cruel, bloody rough and true.
The aim of the researcher was to study nature imagery
and its different aspects which were related to human
emotions and the way Ernest Hemingway symbolized
nature to form the essence of the story line in all his
novels.
The study moves through six chapters from introduction
to conclusion. First chapter is introduction that gives a
glimpse of the people and incidents that influenced
Hemingway’s work – A great amount of credit went to
his parents, friends and the circumstances that he
experienced during that time. The second chapter tells us
about the age and trends that existed while he started his
career as a novelist. It tells that how the post war (World
War I and II) scenarios and the economic depression
influenced the writers of the lost generation.
The third and fourth chapters deal with nature imagery as
the driving force in all his novels. The description of war
and economic depression combined with the symbolic
description of nature formed the essence of the storyline
in all his novels.
In the fifth chapter, Hemingway beautifully portrays
human emotions through different aspects of nature.
Rain, bullfighting, duck hunting, alcohol, sex etc.
everything was connected to human emotions. The scene
of fishing boats, brown nets, wicker traps, experiencing
safari seeing animals etc. all made him happy and he felt
very close to nature which also gave him immense
satisfaction, inner joy and peace. The conclusion brings
out the facts reached out in this study through
observation and analysis of the novels and their
characters. It is in this chapter that the researcher has
proved that Hemingway embodied the world of external
realities in his novels. He was always one with nature and
always incorporated this love with his other love, writing
with great perfection.
The study concludes that nature according to Ernest
Hemingway was simple and beautiful. It was a place
where you could get away from all the complications life
had to offer. He blended naturalism and symbolism in the
most beautiful and realistic manner.
Thus in the last chapter, the researcher concludes that
Hemingway’s way of presenting nature was very
interesting and different from the way other poets and
authors of the romantic age dealt with this subject
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