All Quiet On The Western Front Analysis

All Quiet On the Western Front is relevant to current times. All quiet on the western front definitely will leave you quiet after reading it, this book demonstrates camaraderie, nature of war, and loss of innocence through it’s main character Paul Baumer. This American classic takes place during WWI written by Erich Maria Remarque and is to be compared to Henry V, written by William Shakespeare which takes place during the Hundred Years War. Henry V shows the reader a sense of the monarchy between King Henry and his loyal soldiers. The play also deals with vision to commitment. All Quiet on the western front has characters closer to the age of people going to the military now and is therefore more relevant. Soldiers in All Quiet On the Western Front were of a younger age than the ones compared to in King Henry V. Paul goes off to war at the young age of nineteen, which for most enrollees in the army is about the same age as someone just graduating high school. “All four are nineteen years of age, and all four joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war” page 3. The military as of now accepts people ranging from 17 to 35 years of age, similar to the ages in All Quiet On the Western Front. …show more content…
World War I lasted from 1914 till 1918 which is the time at which All Quiet On the Western Front takes place. Henry V, is estimated to unfold in the late 1500’s, compared to modern times is quite the leap through time. Even in this day and age society still faces the repercussions of WWI, such as Britain just recently in 2015 finally paying off the deft caused by the war. This is what makes All Quiet On the Western Front more relevant, that we still face the problems of the war to this