The Good Soldier
This is a short overview on The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. It is a modernistic novel so it has numerous perspectives and this is just one of them.
Author
Ford Hermann Hueffer otherwise known as Ford Madox Ford was born in 1873 in the city of Merton, Surrey. He was the decedent of Madox Brown the artists and the son of a music critic Francis Hueffer. Ford Madox Ford came from a background of artist and literature and that lead to him liking literature. As a child he would often travel between Paris and Germany because of his father’s work but after his father died he moved to London at went to college there. Also it is where he wrote his first book called The Shifting of Fire at the age of 18. From that point on he wrote many books and which were very popular. He eloped with Elsie Martindale but that did not work out because Ford like to be with women. After that point in his life he met Joseph Conrad and he wrote to books with him and learned about modernistic writing that would later be shown in his novels. He was in the military but only saw the outcome of war and was never in any real sort of battle. After the war he spent the rest of his life writing books and being with many women until he died in 1939.
Background
From 1910 to 1914 was a time of great change in social ideals because of the calm times and people began to think differently about the old ideals about social class. Women most of all were fighting for the right to vote and all the things that were swept under the rug before were coming to light. Some problems that were coming out was the idea of being divorced because more and more women were going for the right to vote and it did not just stop there. Suddenly the old fashion way was not good enough and that prompted change with some people.
Characters
There are four character that the story revolves around because they are the interacting characters in which their stories intertwine during the novel. There are other
Author
Ford Hermann Hueffer otherwise known as Ford Madox Ford was born in 1873 in the city of Merton, Surrey. He was the decedent of Madox Brown the artists and the son of a music critic Francis Hueffer. Ford Madox Ford came from a background of artist and literature and that lead to him liking literature. As a child he would often travel between Paris and Germany because of his father’s work but after his father died he moved to London at went to college there. Also it is where he wrote his first book called The Shifting of Fire at the age of 18. From that point on he wrote many books and which were very popular. He eloped with Elsie Martindale but that did not work out because Ford like to be with women. After that point in his life he met Joseph Conrad and he wrote to books with him and learned about modernistic writing that would later be shown in his novels. He was in the military but only saw the outcome of war and was never in any real sort of battle. After the war he spent the rest of his life writing books and being with many women until he died in 1939.
Background
From 1910 to 1914 was a time of great change in social ideals because of the calm times and people began to think differently about the old ideals about social class. Women most of all were fighting for the right to vote and all the things that were swept under the rug before were coming to light. Some problems that were coming out was the idea of being divorced because more and more women were going for the right to vote and it did not just stop there. Suddenly the old fashion way was not good enough and that prompted change with some people.
Characters
There are four character that the story revolves around because they are the interacting characters in which their stories intertwine during the novel. There are other