i am without politics. How does this statement of the oldman bring out the theme of the butchery of the innocent in old man at the bridge? justify also the related anti war theme of the story
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When the old man said the above statement he meant that he has no political role to play in the War. He meant that he doesn't supports any side in the war and does not want to have participation in War.
The theme of "The Old Man at the Bridge" is that war not only threatens to destroy the lives of soldiers on the battlefield, but all living beings who happen to be in its path. This anti-war story focuses on what we today would call war's "collateral damage."
The old man is one example of collateral damage. He has been living his ordinary, peaceful, compassionate life in a rural village in Spain. He has no idea what the fighting is all about. He hates nobody, has no politics, and simply wants to do what he has always done, which is tend his animals, but he is forced from his home. He has nowhere to go, nobody to stay with, and no desire to start over, yet he has to leave.
Through his concern for the fate of the animals he has left behind, we learn about even more of war's collateral damage: he has let his cats run free and has left his bird cages open, but what of his farm stock? He worries about the bombs dropping from planes and an enemy army coming through. What will happen to his poor animals? Like him, these are creatures without any politics or hate whose lives are threatened and upended.
Hemingway wants to make sure that we don't forget about all the vulnerable creatures, from animals to elderly people, who suffer from wars. He is saying that these lives count, too, and are part of war's toll.
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Nice question... I am without politics...this sentence has a great significance.. this one sentence shows us the dark side of human nature..Dark side of human leadership... For the masses ( in this story represented as the old man) they only want a good life with good food to eat, nice water to drink and a bed to sleep on with all the comforts life has to provide. But wars don't let them do so. That's like the innocent goat who we butcher though no fault of them....
Wars are fruitless combination of anger, jealousy, and hate... Wars are nothing but a 'not neccessary evil' which happens in our day to day life...It is a destruction of life and humanity for no reason...