An Archetypal Study Of Hemingway’s Representative Works: A Farewell To Arms. For Whom The Bell Tolls And The Old Man And The Sea

Ernest Hemingway enjoys the unshakable position in the world literature for hisprofound and unique portrait of human and life and his critical reputation today isstronger than at any time since his death. Hemingway always shows his concern abouthumanity and inner world of mankind in his books. Among them, A Farewell to Arms,For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea are the most distinguished.This thesis attempts to interpret Hemingway’s representative works, A Farewell toArms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea from the archetypalperspective to reveal Hemingway’s unconscious attitude towards life, death, andrebirth under the affect of archetypes and his concern about the humanity.Based on the theory of Archetypal Criticism of Northrop Frye and Hemingway’srepresentative works, this thesis tries to figure out the aesthetic and tragic meaning inHemingway’s works, and the deep concern about the human race and the big shockthat Hemingway brings to our heart. This thesis aims to offer a detailed look into thearchetypes in the three works and tries to dig out general patterns and underlyingmeanings of literary works with archetypal literary criticism as its theory basis. Thisthesis combines the literary theory and the text in order to offer a new and typicalsample and perspective for the Hemingway scholars and literary learners.The exploration of this thesis involves the nature Archetypes, the characterArchetypes and the process Archetypes and divides into four parts. It starts with thestudy of the life of Hemingway in the first chapter, especially his war experiencewhich has an essential effect on writing. Then it introduces the Archetypal Criticism and the development of Archetypal Criticism in different times and stages from Frazerto Frye. The second chapter explores the archetypes in Hemingway’s threerepresentative works, including natural archetypes, character archetypes and processarchetypes to integrate the Greek mythology and The Bible to trace the eternalcharming in Hemingway’s works. In the last chapter, come to a conclusion thatHemingway makes his works classic and eternal not only because of the uniquelanguage style, the Iceberg theory and theme of the war and love, but also thearchetypes enrich the works and meanings of in Hemingway’s works.