EXPLORING THE VERITY OF IDEALISTIC CONCEPTS IN THE NOVEL “A FAREWELL TO ARMS” BY EARNEST HEMINGWAY

Abstract

By the time World War I (1914-1918) finally ended, 10 million people were expected to have died, and 20 million were wounded. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary triggered the conflict in June 1914, but the causes of the dispute went further. A kind of strong patriotism flourished throughout Europe. Political power employed state individuals as well as colonized individuals through the basic workings of the belief system. Germany, France, and England have become huge capabilities through cash competitions all over the planet. Europe's interlocking royal groups formed remote federations and promised to favor one side in the conflict. Add to that the upcoming progressive battle in Russia, and each piece is primed for disaster. A four-year struggle ensued. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (mostly present-day Turkey) clashed against the Allies run by France, England, Russia, Italy, and eventually America. Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms depicts manipulation of the Ideological State Apparatus, that are glory, duty, honor, and obligation, how they work inside people, and how Oppressive State Apparatuses work against the people who understand the exploitation of ideology. From the perspective of postcolonial theory, this paper attempts to highlight the conspiracy of ideological weapon, which gives people the sense of self-betterment to initiate patriotism and nationalism in their mind, but this works only to take their service.