TURBULENCE AND TURMOIL: A CASE OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE AND MEANING SEEKING IN THE NOVEL FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS BY EARNEST HEMINGWAY

Abstract

Hemingway the prominent literary figure of English novel is well known by his code heroes. Through code heroes and their turbulence, Hemingway had presented his thoughts and the culture of the times in his writing. The treatment of the characters could be possible through the elements Frankl‘s Logotherapy as the love and hope are prescribed by him in his book Man‘s search for Meaning. Hemingway ‘s characters are being presented by him in the diverse social and socio-political atmosphere where the common people are not given prestige in giving choice of living life and the they are dealt as the flies whom the super class and military authoritative utilize for their own purposes. The creating of such atmosphere give birth to the new thinking of meaning seeking in characters and the characters after manipulation of the situation, comes towards the truth of the life where they were standing alone. The study is qualitative in its nature and prescriptive in method in which Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is analyzed under the elements of Frankl’s Logotherapy that how the characters move towards the meanings of the life after bearing the brutality of the war. The results of the study describe that Frankl,s Logotherapy can present the best mental treatment of the characters who are victims of the brutality of the war but if it can only be applicable and can be understood when there is end of the crucial stages of the war. It can also be concluded through the study that when the crucial stage of brutality of the situation continues, the character comes towards the stage of self-transcendence because at that time they love to die rather live even they have got the meanings of the life.