The summation of historical
events known as the Rite of Spring written by Modris Elsteins and the short
story known as the Soldier’s Home written by Ernest Hemmingway. Both present a
unique link between short story and history featured in an early twentieth century
take. A major setting in both works is
centered around the time frame of the First World War in which the countries of
England and France were allies although the Rite of Spring expresses more interest
in the more minor facts and details than Soldier’s home where as the short
story likes to take more of a narrative approach to telling its story.
The Soldier’s home is a short story
written by Ernest Hemmingway in which the main character a returning soldier known
by the name of Krebs as he comes back to his home from the war he struggles
with adjusting to everyday life, himself, the war, and his religion. The soldier’s
home is narrated embellished talk of what a soldier might go through when
coming home after a conflict. The story shows us the trauma that one’s self might
take during an event while excursing something like the military might imbue
on the self (Hemmingway 111-116).
Like
if a person was ever forcefully trapped in a dark box for a long enough time they
may become claustrophobic or even afraid of the dark another side effect of the
encounter may be that that the person may have both fears and will distrust
both. Well Krebs who is a veteran of the war he just fought in has just experienced
events that effect the difference parts of his life his self in a way that now
that he is out he not only distrusts himself but also finds him questioning
himself about his own religion (Hemmingway 115).
In
the opposite role as Soldier’s Home the summation tale of historical events
known as Rite of Spring written by Modris Elsteins offers a
more systematic approach to looking at the war scene of the First World War from
the unique allegiances to the difference battles. It gives a front line look at
what people have to take on in war especially in World War I with all the
trench warfare dangers like diseases, dropped shells, and infections were all
common and it’s all these people who gives these stories that allows the war to
continue with minimal causalities (Eksteins 140-155).
This
work also gives pain and distrusted agony to the word of war even if it is
historically based it’s like being trapped in that dark box again but this time
on a person’s own conscience everything seen with in the dark box is okay
because you cannot see anything which for some people can be calming but after
a while the hallucinations start falling slowly corrupting the purity of the moment
in which the inhabitant is living out their time in the box.
There
is a quote from the Rite of Spring which goes like “The Germans and French are
more innovative, ….. The British are more systematic “(Eksteins 141). Of the
two works seen here both works support a different stance of that quote Soldier’s
home is a more innovate work that is not bound by very many restrictions seeing
as it is a work of fiction where as the work the Rite of Spring is more
systematic in nature with its regulations being confined with the historical
bounds of reality.
Ekstein, Modris. "Rites of
Spring ." Ekstein, Modris. Boston-New York , n.d. 140-155. Book.
Hemmingway, Ernest. "Soldier's
Home." Hemmingway, Ernest. The Finca Vigia Edition. New
York,London,Toronto,Sydney : Scriber , 1987. 111-116. Book.
