丧钟为谁而鸣解读

Analysis of Major Character
• He knows that his job requires that he kill people but also knows that he should not believe in killing in the abstract. Despite his newfound love for Maria, he feels that there cannot be a place for her in his life while he also has his military work. He claims not to be superstitious (迷信的)but cannot stop thinking about the world as giving him signs of things to come. These conflicts weigh heavily on Robert Jordan throughout the the novel..
• The major character of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Robert Jordan left his job as a college instructor in the United States to volunteer for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. He believed in the Republican cause with a near-religious faith and felt an ―absolute brotherhood with his comrades (战友) on the Republican side.
Background
Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls in Cuba,Key West, and Sun Valley, Idaho in 1939.In Cuba, he lived in the Hotel AmbosMundos where he worked on the manuscript( 手稿).The novel was finished in July 1940, and published in October. The novel is based on his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, with an American named Robert Jordan who fights with Spanish soldiers for the republicans.The novel has three types of characters: those who are purely fictional; those based on real people but fictionalized; and those who were actual figures in the war.
谁都不是一座岛屿，自成一体； 每个人都是那广袤大陆的一部分。 如果海浪冲刷掉一个土块， 欧洲就少了一点； 如果一个海角， 如果你朋友或你自己的庄园被冲掉， 也是如此。 任何人的死亡都使我受到损失， 因为我包孕在人类之中。 所以别去打听丧钟为谁而鸣， 它为你敲响。
Analysis of Major Character
Analysis of Major Character
• Robert Jordan ,in his final moments as he faces death. He accepts himself as a man of action rather than thought, as a man who believes in practicality rather than abstract theories. He understands that the war requires him to do some things that he does not believe in. He also realizes that, though he cannot forget the unsavory(名誉不好的) deeds he has done in the past, he must avoid dwelling(细想某事) on them to get things done in the present.Finally, Robert Jordan is able to make room in his mind for both his love for Maria and his military mission. By the end of the novel, just before he dies, his internal conflicts and tensions are resolved and he feels ―integrated into the world.(融r Whom the Bell Tolls is told primarily through the thoughts and experiences of Robert Jordan, a character inspired by Hemingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan is an American volunteer for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War who is an expert in the use of explosives, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. • A superior has ordered him to travel behind enemy lines and destroy a bridge, using the aid of a group of guerrillas(游击队) who have been living in the mountains nearby. In their camp, Robert Jordan fall in love with Marí a, a young Spanish native whose life has been shattered by the outbreak of the war. Finally he devoted his life to finish his task.The novel vividly describes the brutality ( 暴行)of civil war.
Reflections
• Death is a primary theme of the novel. When Robert Jordan is assigned to blow up the bridge, he knows that he will not survive it. Pablo and El Sordo, leaders of the Republican guerrilla bands(游击队), see that inevitability （必然性）also. Almost all of the main characters combat for their own deaths.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
丧钟为谁而鸣
Ernest Miller Hemingway
海明威
Ernest Miller Hemingway
• Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community(外籍人士) in Paris, as well as the veterans （退伍军人） of World War One later known as “the Lost Generation”, as described in his memoir A Moveable Feast. He received the Pulitzer Prize （普利策 奖）in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature Hemingway‘s distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, in contrast to the style of his literary rival William Faulkner.（威廉福克纳） It had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His characters are typically stoic (坚忍的)men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered canonical(典型)in American literature.