All Quiet on the Western Front Essay

conditions. In the movie of All Quiet on the Western Front, the soldiers were depicted in the trenches smashing at the rats that were trying to take their food (All Quiet on The Western Front). This illustrates one of the consequences of fighting in the trenches and how trench warfare worsened warfare for the soldiers. Overall, new technological inventions greatly increased the sufferings of the soldiers and changed the way people viewed the…

Heroism, patriotism, honor, and valor are all words commonly associated with the battlefield. But, what do they truly mean to the boys on the frontline? For most, these words are empty and mean nothing. In his masterful work of literature All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque offers a critique of society and its tendency to romanticize the baselessness of war including the heroism supposedly found within it. The Theory of Progress is a holdover from Enlightenment thinkers who were hopeful…

of World War I. The war caused many soldiers to lose their innocence, much like those we see in All Quiet on the Western Front. Nationalism plays a key role in premature responsibility and pressure on these men. Propaganda influences soldiers and their feelings towards the war, which they will later realize to be false. The final contribution to soldiers’ loss of innocence is the contrast of the front and life back home. The illusion of nationalism among citizens blinds young men into enlisting.…

Before I started reading the novel All Quiet on The Western Front, I employed a wide variety of strategies to better my understanding of literary concepts. An example of a strategy that I employed to understand what was going on in the novel in terms of the setting and conflicts was to go over the World War 1 notes that I took in history which gave me some background about the time period so I could develop the proper mindset for reading the novel and to ensure that I would fully understand the…

comparisons and detailed adjectives. A main event that is frequently brought up and taught in History classes is World War I. You know all of the facts about how many people died and where it happened, but you do not get a true understanding of it until you watch the film from 1930, All Quiet on the Western Front. The poems “Break of Day in…

obediently, innocently slay one another.”(Remarque 263). In teen’s brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making center are still developing—and not necessarily at the same rate,the main characters in All Quiet on the Western Front are mostly 19-20 years so not even close to the ge that the brain is fully…

with the stumps of his arms, shot off, now hang in the wire” (Remarque, 112). All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is the story of a young man named Paul and his comrades in World War One. Paul and his comrades suffer through all the horrors of war and are changed by the war and its terrors. In the book, Paul and his fellow soldiers are injured emotionally, physically, and mentally while fighting at the front. Soldiers are injured emotionally during war because of the…

Paul and his men are set to the front for reinforcement. As the men approach the front they turn out to be more uneasy, particularly the newcomers with shots flying. They turn out to be more thought and mindful of the risk before them. Amid this fight, the horses are critically injured, and wail in desolation. One of the men, Detering, who is a rancher needs to put the horses out of their wretchedness, yet he knows if he does there will be a higher danger of him being shot by the adversary. Paul…

War will take its toll on a soldier. In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, the soldiers of Second Company come out of the war damaged in many ways which are almost unpreventable. Their bodies are hurt, their minds are full of fear and they are eventually molded to think that being surrounded death is a normal day to day thing. The soldiers relationships with people and places are destroyed their generation is lost. War leaves them alone and afraid. Some people…

All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel about war. A Novel about suffering, loss, and the cold and sad realization that one young man came to about the realities of war. That young man is Paul Baumer. Paul is a very fluid and inconsistent character, he is constantly developing and changing his views on his circumstances. This is the cause of confusion for many, but also the reason that this is such a riveting and powerful book that has affected and will continue to affect all generations. His…