Ernest hemingway’s idea of love in ‘a farewell to arms’

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Al Qodrine Poetry Galih Suci - C0305009 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

The research is mainly aimed to discuss the idea of love in ‘A Farewell to Arms’ by Ernest Hemingway. The source data is Ernest Hemingway’s novel entitled ‘A Farewell to Arms’, the main data is the words, sentences, and narration of the story related to the plot development of Ernest Hemingway’s novel mentioned above. The supporting data are collected from other written materials such as books, journal, and internet resources. The research uses philosophical approach to analyze the idea of love of the love stories. Philosophical approach is an approach which concerns with what literary work teaches and what significant values or messages delivered through the work. To support the analysis, there is an explanation of the relation between philosophy and other intrinsic aspects as well. From the analysis, it is discovered that the idea of love expressed by Hemingway is that people must fight for their true love, although there is difficult situation and their must sacrifice everything even though they must betray their country by escaping the army to have a perfect life with their love. Hemingway managed to tell the story with beautiful rhythm and it is mixed together with the plot. Hemingway’s stories follow the love genre’s pattern in arranging plot, while at same time, it can maximize other aspects in building the story.