Essay Archive - Good Versus Evil: Wars in A Separate Peace
Good Versus Evil: Wars in A Separate Peace
John Knowles novel, A Separate Peace, portrays wars on three
distinct levels. These levels could be described as outer, inner, and
world. There is a very good definition of these wars at the closing of the
novel which shows us the levels:
"I could never agree with either of them. It would have been
comfortable, but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars
were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars
were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." (page 193)
This passage shows that war....
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