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Farewell to Arms is a famous autobiographical novel written by Ernest
Hemingway. It would be better to define dichotomy rather than to explain the
significance of plains/mountains.
The
dichotomy is a literary device, a contrast or separation between two things
that are or are represented as opposing or completely distinct.
This
strategy is used by writers in works of literature to create tension in their
stories and plays. The same technique has been employed by Hemingway as well.
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The
play, A Farewell to Arms Mountains has a lot of geographical significance.
Love, decency, health, serenity, and the good life are all represented by
mountains. The low-lying plains, on the other hand, are a sign of humiliation,
pain, disease, death, and devastation while the plains represent a stark
contrast to this; they are marked by intoxication, prostitutes, devastation,
low-cost cafes, and other evidence of a low style of living.
The
writer also used these geographical dichotomies between pure mountains and
corrupt plains. Furthermore, the mountains-plains divide is expanded further
when Henry informs Gino, the driver, that he does not believe war can be fought
and won in the highlands. As a result, the mountains appear not only as a
location of purity in contrast to the plains' pollution but also as a place of
safety. This is going to be crucial later in the plot.
