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Article: Hemingway's the fifth column, fifth columnism, and the Spanish Civil War.(Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
- Author:
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The central issue in Hemingway's play, The Fifth Column, is its moral core, which determines whether the work is political propaganda or a political morality play. The work, however, is too morally confused to be either. This confusion is the fifth column, the idea of an enemy within sabotaging the Spanish Republic's ideals. This essay examines the historic context of real fifthcolumnism as a structure of moral and political disorder and Hemingway's internalization of fifthcolumnism through the moral ambiguities of his protagonist, Philip Rawlings.
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THE FIFTH COLUMN is a disturbing play. The first time I read Hemingway's only full-length work ...
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