My goodness. There is a lot of Shakespeare in Hemingway. And there is a lot of sex in Shakespeare.
Hemingway was always eating and drinking, right? Eating in Shakespeare is to enjoy sexually; dine, same; drinking is a metaphor for sex.
Hemingway wrote repeatedly of feeling a death-like emptiness after sex. In Antony and Cleopatra "Cleopatra catching but the least noise of this, dies instantly. I have seen her die twenty times...", death is orgasm. Emptying is ejaculation. Execution, execute-sex in Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a dirty mother fucker! Pause: Have you ever read The Canterbury Tales, with contemporary transliteration? Dude. It's PORN. In fact, The Wife of Bath was made into a porn movie! Unpause.
Darkness, all over Garden, is used in Shakespeare to provide cover for sex, as it is today, granted.
Devil. Hemingway's pet name for Catherine in Garden. Devil in Shakespeare is another name for a cuckold.
Bullfighting in Hemingway. Bull is a cuckold metaphor as well as a symbol of virility in Shakespeare.
Much of this is common usage today, it was in the twentieth century, Hemingway would not have had to have deliberately modeled his writing after Shakespeare but there is just so much of it, especially the eating and drinking--there is so much eating and drinking in every one of Hemingway's novels...He ate and drank a lot in real life, too, granted. It is just the frequency of it. Has any novelist ever written so much about eating and drinking? Sex is food and food is sex in Shakespeare. So, appetite. Feast. Surely Hemingway read Shakespeare, some Shakespeare, Chaucer. I don't know man. There is just so much. It's crazy, man.
Hemingway was always eating and drinking, right? Eating in Shakespeare is to enjoy sexually; dine, same; drinking is a metaphor for sex.
Hemingway wrote repeatedly of feeling a death-like emptiness after sex. In Antony and Cleopatra "Cleopatra catching but the least noise of this, dies instantly. I have seen her die twenty times...", death is orgasm. Emptying is ejaculation. Execution, execute-sex in Shakespeare. Shakespeare was a dirty mother fucker! Pause: Have you ever read The Canterbury Tales, with contemporary transliteration? Dude. It's PORN. In fact, The Wife of Bath was made into a porn movie! Unpause.
Darkness, all over Garden, is used in Shakespeare to provide cover for sex, as it is today, granted.
Devil. Hemingway's pet name for Catherine in Garden. Devil in Shakespeare is another name for a cuckold.
Bullfighting in Hemingway. Bull is a cuckold metaphor as well as a symbol of virility in Shakespeare.
Much of this is common usage today, it was in the twentieth century, Hemingway would not have had to have deliberately modeled his writing after Shakespeare but there is just so much of it, especially the eating and drinking--there is so much eating and drinking in every one of Hemingway's novels...He ate and drank a lot in real life, too, granted. It is just the frequency of it. Has any novelist ever written so much about eating and drinking? Sex is food and food is sex in Shakespeare. So, appetite. Feast. Surely Hemingway read Shakespeare, some Shakespeare, Chaucer. I don't know man. There is just so much. It's crazy, man.
