Historical, political, and social idea about gender.

Historical, political, and social idea about gender.

Introduction

The “sun also rises” is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway in the year 1926 about a group of British and American expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. However, this paper asserts to present the historical gender, political gender relationship both feminine and masculine as well as the characters relationship mainly concerning male-female relationship (SparkNotes Editors 2003). Categorically the running of bulls here expresses the mood of freedom while the bull fighting is a clear picture of

Majorly, jeke Barnes implies that he was a soldier in numerous moments in the novel though not direct. This is seen when we clearly notice that during World War 1, jeke bens had a wound hence as a result of injury he has totally lost the ability to have sex. As a result  of this failure, jeke  experiences masculinity insecurities  hence becoming a typical member of what pioet Gertrude stein named the “lost generation,” which was a generation consisting  of generation of men and women whose experience categorically in world war 1 mainly undermined their belief in love, morality, manhood, justice, and belief. According to Hemingway, Simon and Schuster, the narrator for the sun also rises embodies the victim of world war 1 and termed them servants of veteran in world war 1.since the narrator was among the victims he clearly shows us how his lower body was permanently damaged , and as a result he suffered many significant effects on his life. In addition according to the text the issue of bull interaction clearly shows freedom just after the occurrence of the World War 1(Shmoop Editorial Team). However, Cohns affair with Brett the lady to jeke is seen when Brett tells jeke that she had an affair with Cohn (SparkNotes Editors 2003).

Robert Cohns affair with Brett sets off a chain of jealous explosions and actually fuels its real action. Jeke earlier on comments that Cohn brings out the worst in people (Shmoop Editorial Team).  In addition, Bretts developed an essential part during World War 1 since his true love just died of dysentery. According to SparkNotes Editors (2003) Bretts is regarded as promiscuous since she was remarried by jeke and besides realizing that jeke coul not give physical love, betts goes ahead and plans to be married by Mike Campbell. In fact, in our world and that of jeke, World War 1 most certainly did happen, and it is very clear that it left an ugly scar upon everyone it affected. We can say jeke is of no exception and his scars are not only mental, they are physical. This is well illustrated by the following conversation directly from the novel.

[Georgette] looked up to be kissed. She touched me with one hand and I put her hand        away. “Never mind.”

“What’s the matter? You sick?”

“Everybody’s sick. I’m sick too.” Mainly showing us how the war meant him such impotent hence exploding his own image as a hero. Moreover, even though it     means that even           though woman do want him, they can’t have him; while men respects and admires him, but certainly they don’t want to be him (Shmoop        Editorial Team). However, Brett was in love with jeke as well as being infatuated by     mike which shows that Bretts feeling are often masked by her debonair exterior mainly          by feeling that these two men and his affair to them is under her control, in addition jeke is involved in love with a prostitute known as geogergette. After receiving telegram from both mike and cohn, jake and bill return to Pamplona where they meet up with brett, cohn, and mike before walking to the carrals outside the to watch the loading of the bulls and the coming bullfight. However at a cafe afterwards, mike in return browbeats Cohn for tagging after Brett. It is however seen that during pamplonas fiesta of san femin which lasted a week for, here musician fill the streets and shops including the wine stores where Brett is placed on a barrel so that the peasants can dance mainly around her as if she were a pegan idol. This showed the immoral behavior of Brett. However jeke szleeps while his friends attend the running of bull mainly from the corrals to the bullring, mainly through the streets of the town. During this period jeke meets matador Pedro lomero cene the next day, after Pedro performed extreamly admirably in the fring, bretgt cannot help just talking about her attraction to him. Here the game of bullfighting is all about sex whereby Romero wins the ring. In the next day of the fiesta jake and Brett pray at the Pamplona cathedral.

Conclusion

In conclusion, there is total insecurity of central male characters as a result of competition, mutual harassment and rivalry which is mainly witnessed in the argument between the characters. For example Hamingway plays up the tension of jealous and competition demonstrates how uncertain his male characters are.in addition, the main characters such as cohn are serious drinkers since they drink as if it is their routine to do so.for example mike has developed a practical alcoholic profession whose main distinguishing factor is to get drunk and stay drunk for days possibly all the years. Mike is mostly involved in alcoholism since it makes one to escape from realities of the world. Furthermore, the sense of satisfaction is missing in American historical idea. The cause of these massive social upheaval is caused by world war 1.in fact, after the war nobody seems to take note of things which used to be important there before.  The people of Hemingways trugle mainly to discover their individual brands of joy but none of them succeed in doing so. Also when World War 1 tries to come, it is very clear that people show sense of uneasiness and they also have fresh experience in their mind. In addition the context here mainly denotes mainly bulls and bull-fighting whereby the bull symbolizes passion and freedom while bulls interactions with the bull fighters mainly symbolizes the act of sex hence the involvement of  manipulation and penetration by the bull-fighter of the bull. Additionaly the symbolic phrase water everywhere and only not a drop to drink denotes how the characters are more interested in alcohol drinking. However this is also depict itself when the characters take drinking as their daily task which can actually be seen as excessive alcohol drinking.