The Oxford English Dictionary defines romance as “A quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life” Romance is the element behind horror films and videogames like Call of Duty. Yet it also is behind patriotism. It can drive people to fight for what is theirs and what they are a part of. Kantorek was key in getting Paul and the gang to enlist. His motivating speeches about patriotism, duty, and devotion sparked a romance inside of them.
However, fighting didn’t end up developing much excitement from the feeling of manly heroicity. The front was bloody and gory. Paul was surrounded by death, it was terrifying. The images of men crying out pain while their throats gurgled and their bodies writhed in pain were even worse than seeing the pale, emotionless faces of the dead that were spewed about in every direction. Men from Paul’s generation, hardened by war, began to resent the excitement and patriotism of the generation before them. …show more content…
Is it worth the pain, the suffering, and the death? Are there better ways of figuring it out? Does anyone actually benefit from war? Men like Paul began to ask questions about the purpose of war and the things that came of it and they didn’t love the answers they got. Many of their fathers and teachers, such and Kantorek, told them that there was nothing greater than the honor of fighting for the things that mattered, even if you died in the proces. But the young men had a hard time with these answers. For instance, Paul didn’t feel like a hero on the front, he just simply did what he had to do to stay alive. And the “things worth fighting for,” were they really more important than the lives of millions of people? The lives of innocent farmers, postmen, husbands, and
However, fighting didn’t end up developing much excitement from the feeling of manly heroicity. The front was bloody and gory. Paul was surrounded by death, it was terrifying. The images of men crying out pain while their throats gurgled and their bodies writhed in pain were even worse than seeing the pale, emotionless faces of the dead that were spewed about in every direction. Men from Paul’s generation, hardened by war, began to resent the excitement and patriotism of the generation before them. …show more content…
Is it worth the pain, the suffering, and the death? Are there better ways of figuring it out? Does anyone actually benefit from war? Men like Paul began to ask questions about the purpose of war and the things that came of it and they didn’t love the answers they got. Many of their fathers and teachers, such and Kantorek, told them that there was nothing greater than the honor of fighting for the things that mattered, even if you died in the proces. But the young men had a hard time with these answers. For instance, Paul didn’t feel like a hero on the front, he just simply did what he had to do to stay alive. And the “things worth fighting for,” were they really more important than the lives of millions of people? The lives of innocent farmers, postmen, husbands, and