A Comparative Study of Human Identity in War in Ahmad Mahmoud's Burned Land Novels and Ernest Hemingway's Farewell to Arms
Subject Areas : شعر
1 - English Language.Literature.Azad.Kerman. Iran
Keywords: Keywords: Sustainability, War, Identity, Ontology,
Abstract :
Abstract The present article reviews the components of sustainability and war literature in both Iranian and English novels to show the author's cultural and ideological differences in depicting human identity during the war in these works. For this purpose, two novels, The Scorched Earth by Ahmad Mahmoud and "Farewell to Ernest Hemingway", have been selected to explore their main meaning in terms of constructing meaningful characters. The author of this article believes that there are fundamental differences in how to deal with the concept of man, war and existential identity in these works, which ultimately leads to the formation of stories with different plots and different identities in terms of epistemology and type. Attitudes toward the mission of man in constructing his independent identity and his worldview in order to perform human duties have numerous distinct characteristics compared to other human beings. To study the identity structure of these two novels, the existentialist theory of Jean-Paul Sartre has been used. Keywords: Sustainability, War, Identity, Ontology
