ine and control his dread and, above all, that he behave with unobtrusive though unmistakable dignity. ‘Don’t think about it’ is its formal injunction to exemplar and apprentice alike. The code is resolute in its conviction that action and feeling have greater utility than reason. And it suggests that a hero have cajones…The courage demanded by the code, then, is something more than a thing unto itself. The code asks of a man that he try in every gesture he makes to impress his will on the raw material of life.
The Hemingway hero uses sex, alcohol and action as a means of not having to think or talk about the terror and the dread. The following analysis will examine the Greek heroic ideal with the Hemingway heroic ideal in more depth. Four of Hemingway’s novels will be used to illustrate these concepts after a definition of the Greek heroic ideal and the Hemingway heroic ideal. A conclusion will summarize the basic similarity between the two while po
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