Throughout history, life has consisted of this: the epic battle -- the battle of good and evil, from which all other conflicts grow. This underlying factor has been placed within literature since the beginning of writing. From then to now, novels have been based on the outcome of good and evil. In the modern novel's by Ernest Hemmingway, the battle becomes the back drop of every story. His novel A Farewell to Arms, is a great example of how this battle is played out. In the story the characters fight to cope with the reality that is the battle between good and evil, right and wrong, hope and tragedy.
             Good, evil, right, and wrong go hand in hand, but hope and tragedy are the consequences of these happenings. Every novel follows the same ideal of conflict, some more than others. In the novel A Farewell to Arms, the battle of good and evil permeates the characters, as well as the setting of the story. The main character, Fredrick Henry, finds himself battling the forces of good and evil beginning to end. Fredrick fights along side the Italians in the first world war. The Italians are on the side of the Allies of this war, battling against the forces of evil, the perpetrators of the war, who are Germans and Austrians. As an ambulance driver, he hears the guns, rides into their fury, and picks up the results of their mayhem. Everyday this scenario plays out and thus lands him in the clutches of good and evil, life and death. Into this mess of death and sadness that is war, he finds hope and love in the character of Catherine.
             Catherine, a lovely British nurse, is to Henry a reason for hope in what was before a hope-forsaken landscape. When he is sent to fight in the plains, his future plans for being with Catherine are swallowed up in this new hopeless landscape. While taking a minor break and eating some cheese, he is struck by a shell. It inflicts massive leg damage. As he returns from
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