Plot Summary
A Book One A Farewell to Arms opens in Italy during the First World War. The novel’s main character, Frederic Henry, is a young American […]
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Characters
A Bartolomeo Aymo Aymo is one of Frederic Henry’s ambulance drivers during the Italian army’s retreat. He is also the driver Frederic is closest to. […]
Themes
A Identity In A Farewell to Arms, one of the themes of Frederic Henry’s adventure as an ambulance driver during World War I is identity. […]
Construction
A In Medias Res A Farewell to Arms opens in medias res-literally, in the middle of the thing. For the novel, this “thing,” constantly referred […]
Historical Perspective
A World War I World War I was also known as the Great War because it was war on a scale previously unimagined in modern […]
Compare and Contrast
World War I: America spent around thirty billion dollars on the war effort. At war’s end, due to disagreements with the allies, the United States […]
Introduction
Published in 1949 and set thirty-six years in the future, 1984 is George Orwell’s dark vision of the future. Written while Orwell was dying and […]
George Orwell
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal, India, in 1903, into a middle-class family. The son of a British civil servant, Orwell was […]
Plot Summary
A Part One summary of the novel 1984 In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party from Oceania (a fictional state […]