LOVE AS THE SUPREME VALUE AGAINST WAR AND DEATH IN LOST GENERATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
Keywords:
Lost Generation, love, war literatureAbstract
This article examines the representation of love as a redemptive and existential value in the works of English literature associated with the Lost Generation. Set against the backdrop of World War I and its aftermath, the article explores how writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf position love as a counterforce to violence, death, and spiritual fragmentation. Through close textual analysis of A Farewell to Arms and Mrs Dalloway, the paper argues that love, though fragile and temporal, serves as the only meaningful response to the trauma of war and the dehumanization of modernity.
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