Spanish Civil War

Over the last decades, the role of women has dramatically changed through taking on responsibilities outside the home, improving social, economic, and health issues, which was once only presented as a man’s job. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald idealized women through stereotypes perceived in the roaring 1920s. By including the female…

The Spanish Civil war induced anomalous distress and torture to millions of Spaniards during the tedious conflict. This essay will discuss some of the origins of the dispute, some of its characteristics and those of the revolutions that concurred throughout as well as Franco’s role and the impact he had on the warfare. The author’s…

Spanish Civil War(193639), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received aid from fascist Italy…

The war increased tensions in the lead-up to World War II and was largely seen as a possible war by proxy between the Communist Soviet Union and the Fascist Axis of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany while giving the Nazis the chance to practice using the new Luftwaffe planes. This study will seek to answer…

Hemingway’s literature about the Spanish civil war, like most other historical fiction, provides us with a record of the time. However, it is less significant as a record than as meditation on the problems of war writing and expatriate involvement. By historical standards, the war was short, but it was by far one of the most complex wars and at times, complex to…

Destruction, chaos, violence and death along with numerous other tragedies are the results from War. The film Pan’s Labyrinth, by writer/director Guillermo Del Toro, depicts a story of hero’s quest in a time of disarray. The film is based in 1944, about a princess’ journey to return home. She came from an underworld, escaping to…