World War 1 Political Analysis

The political and social aspects of World War I applied and affected the lives of the characters, who were soldiers from the book. During World War I, there were many changes and continuities that change the view of the war in general, yet many continuities that sadly, the soldiers had to face. Some changes that occurred were the new technology and its development during the war. Also, as the war continued, education and knowledge had less and less value to the citizens, especially to the school boys in the book. But, sadly, there continuities to the soldiers lives in the battlefield. Paul and his friends went through the war constantly mindless of the actual situation. Paul also saw through the times with notice of how young boys are exposed to propaganda to enlist them into a war that saves no lives. As well as world context that appeared also during the World War. The changes that occurred of political and social were the new technology and the loss of value of education, brought through processes the brought them to they way they were at the end of the story. As World War I continued, politically, Britain came to develop …show more content…
Global context that affected some political changes during the World War I included the Russian Revolution as it greatly started to break down Russia internally. Russia had to fight an internal struggle of an unworthy Tsar and rebellious working classes as well as a war that was fought throughout the world, the first World War. This caused Russia to sign a treaty with Germany, causing them to give up a great amount of land as they withdrew from the war. In a general perspective, this should have affected Germany as they were coming greatly victorious as well as German soldiers and given them some kind of sense of victory or peace, yet to Paul and his friends rarely saw any of that as they still continued to