Erich Ludendorff

In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, war makes the soldiers act indifferently towards their surroundings, and it shows the demoralizing impact of losing oneself through the character Paul Baümer. Throughout the book, there are many examples of black humor that emphasize the effects that war has had on the soldiers’ identities. Especially when the soldiers are on the front line or going to the front, they are forced to behave in the stereotypical soldier manner of being tough…

Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front depicts Remarque’s experiences as a young German soldier that served his country during WWI. Remarque translated his experiences shortly after the war ended and his novel became a universally acknowledged war story in 1929. Although Remarque received high regards toward his novel, once readers looked deeper into his story, many started to question the message All Quiet on the Western Front was translating. After reviewing All Quiet…

sweet and fitting to die for one’s country”. This poem conveys the deathly conditions that the men had to face daily, and how the reality of the war is far from the reality given to the public by the government. “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, shows many harsh realities of trench warfare, summed up into “shells, gas clouds and flotillas of tanks-- shattering, starvation, death. Dysentery, influenza, typhus-- murder, burning, death. Trenches, hospitals, the common…

Throughout history conflicts between countries has been solved by war. One of the most famous wars in history, World War I, was a disastrous, life-changing event for millions of people. All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, tells what war is like through the eyes of Paul Baumer. He experiences the hardship of war at the young age of nineteen. Him and his school friends, persuaded to go to battle by their school teacher, undergo stressful events no man of their age should have…

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque is a story about the lives of a young group of German soldiers who fight on the French front during World War One. The book is narrated by a young man named Paul Baumer. Paul and several of his friends enlist into the army right out of high school due to the moving patriotic speeches by their schoolmaster. However, at the front lines they learn that war is nothing like they anticipated. Through the viewpoints of these characters Remarque very…

The loss of innocence is a blatant theme in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. The group of eighteen year-old boys that introduced at the beginning have no idea of the hardships and brutalities of war that are to come for these young men. Following their exposing to battle and the front, the boys have become men. They are no longer naive and innocent before their deployment. The theme is also shown with the protagonist, Krebs, in the short story “Soldier’s Home.” Krebs is home on leave,…

Picture this: You’re only a fourteen-year-old juvenile and have already fought in numerous battles in an army in which you murdered tons of people and perpetrated many crimes. Meanwhile, you have also cried, bled, screamed, and almost died. You have now finally run away from all the horrors you executed and from the people trying to harm you, hoping that you’re free from all the threats. But only to find that you’re still a victim, but this time the government is the one out to get you. Several…

Long Way Gone: A Psychological and Emotional Comparison Imagine yourself in the middle of a field, your comrades dying around you, people crying out for their mothers. This is the dreadful reality of war. The novels All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah follow the stories of Paul Baumer and Ishmael Beah, two young soldiers experiencing these things every day. The psychological and emotional journey of these adolescents can be compared and…

Gatsby’s Illusion The state of people’s mental health often negatively affects their relationships with the people surrounding their lives. Gatsby’s mental state throughout The Great Gatsby is certainly not impeccable after he serves in World War I, because he has to leave his girlfriend, Daisy, behind to serve in the army. Like countless other soldiers of this time period, Gatsby’s mental state changes during the war and he holds onto the good memories and perfects them in his head. He…

War has a dark, funny way of underlining the incongruities of warfare. Irony has a strong presence in Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. Set in the German lines of the Western Front in the First World War, Paul Baumer and other young men, such as Albert and Müller, volunteer to be soldiers after their schoolteachers persuaded them. At the front, they admire Kat for his practical skills and reliable instincts. On the opposite is Himmelstoss, a largely inept leader who…