The novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque, follows the story of a young German soldier named Paul, who is fighting on the western front , along with his friends. A the story progresses, it unveils the many horrors that were experienced or witnessed during the war, and the long term effects it has. “Life is simply is one continual watch against the menace of death;-it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct.” Remarque uses animals to convey that the hardships of the sometimes forces humans to revert to primitive instinct, similar to the ways that animals behave. Animal brains are unable to experience the complicated thoughts and emotions that humans do, they only
