Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Rehmat Nseer
Roll No. 15
Presenting on: Chapter 16
& 17
Presenting to: Dr. Amna
Umar
Brief Overview of Chapter 16 & 17
Fernando
A dignified personality
‘the sound of the word, of the gross word
spoken before the women, was offensive to
him’(page224)
A comic relief
Symbol of Christ for Jordan:
‘’the Lord and the master’’, Pilar
said.(page222)
Republican’s sense of Religion
‘First he is the Lord of the Manor. Now he is our ex-Lord
himself’(page 220)
Pilar’s contempt for Robert Jordan and its causes:
In chp 12:
‘He can have thee, Pilar said and ran fingers around the
lob of her ear but I’m very jelous.’(page167)
In chapter 16:
‘you would think that man had never dampened foot
before.’(page220)
Bacchus: A Bacchus:
symbol for Counterpart of
Pablo Greek God
‘Go with Dionysus
Bacchus’, said God of
Robert Jordan. agriculture
(page 221) and wine
Difference between Spanish and American culture
“Come on and eat. In my country a man doesn’t eat
before his woman.”
That is thy country. Here it is better to eat after
(page 223)
Transformation in Pablo’s character:
• Symbol of changing conditions of war
Jordan’s fear regarding Communism
“Then you have a communism in your country?
No. That is done under the Republic.”(page224)
O Misuse of the Cause (page 238)
‘Fernando said. I believe we are justified in
believing that he constitutes a danger to the
Republic’.
O Connectivity: A major theme of this novel
Articles: 1. A matter of Love and Death:
Hemingway’s developing
Psychosexuality in For Whom the
Bell Tolls.
2. Jordan as Hemingway & concept
of suicide In For Whom the Bell
Tolls.
3. Commentary on varieties of
dying and not dying in For Whom
the Bell Tolls.
1.Hemingway’s developing
psychosexuality
Carl Eby’s recent psychoanalytical investigation
of For Whom the bell Tolls
• Hemingway: A patriarchal grounded man
• Solid masculinity