Paradise Lost

Ernest Miller Hemingway(1899-1961) is one of the celebrated American writers. Ernest Hemingway and his writings have already been interpreted from a wide variety of critical perspectives. With the emerging of Ecofeminism, some attempts have been made to probe Hemingway's views on gender or nature, but up to now, nobody explores his ecofeminist consciousness in his famous novel A Farewell to Arms.This dissertation is to explore Hemingway's ecofeminist consciousness in his famous novel A Farewell to Arms by applying an integrated approach to cross-disciplinary studies and textual analysis with ecofeminism as its theoretical support.In A Farewell to Arms, the war destructs harmonious nature, and deprives the human of their lives and happiness and affects the nonhuman world as well. In the war, even with a perfect woman, the love story still ends in a tragedy with Catherine's death in the delivery of a born-dead baby. Henry finally fails to escape from the doom imposed upon him by war and loses his ever-gained paradise. In this dissertation, it is hoped to gain a better understanding of Hemingway who cares much about the interconnection between human and nonhuman, man and woman. It is this ethics of interrelation rather than the inter-control that ensures the survival and development of mankind. It is hoped this dissertation will prove Hemingway is an author with ecofeminist consciousness.