Several common Modernist themes appear throughout Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams and Babylon Revisited. Themes such as the pursuit of money, the pursuit of more excitement in life, and drugs and alcohol lead to dismal themes about war and loss. All three short stories touch on the surplus of money in the 1920s and the strong desire to get it. Only two discuss the drugs and alcohol purchased with the money. In Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams,
Self Determination and Snows of Kilimanjaro Common Sense by Thomas Paine was a popular book during the Revolutionary War times. Written in 1776, Thomas Paine was attempting to encourage the citizens and soldiers to fight the English government and declare their independence. He attempted to tell that it was common sense to want their independence, and the English were simply using them. Self determination was practiced commonly at that time, with people deciding how they would handle the English
The End of Harry: “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” Harry is the main character in this short story, and he dies from his choices of abusing women, alcohol, and money. He picks up several bad qualities while abusing these items, which ultimately lead to his death. Hemingway uses this story to convey his own personal life story. In his short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, Harry battles with infection and struggles to stay alive long enough to be rescued. Harry fails to live because of his own personal
The theme of this paper is not only topical but inspirational and challenging. It is topical given that this is the first paper written in English on Ernest Hemingway’s works in Albanian, which have been translated since 1950s, continued to be translated throughout 1970s, but have been translated much more during the last decade of the past millennium. Furthermore, the theme is inspiring and challenging as despite the presence of a considerable number of Hemingway’s works in Albanian literature,