Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque knew firsthand the torment of fighting on the front lines when he penned his most famous novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque was drafted in WWI as a college student and was seriously injured a whopping total of five times. (“Erich Maria Remarque”). Authors such as Remarque use their novels to provide a social commentary and indirectly influence readers. While reading this novel, it was very clear to me what the author’s political viewpoint on war was. Remarque…

revolver and put an end to it?,” (Remarque 72). At this point in the book, Paul and his company have just recovered after a bombardment in the graveyard. Paul and Kat find a the fair-haired boy that Paul saved severely wounded with a hip and arm injury. They debate on whether or not to kill him and save him from more pain. Although at this point in the novel Remarque is referring to mercifully killing a soldier, there is a double meaning behind this. When Remarque uses “shouldn’t we…” he is…

Theme comparison essay between All Quiet on the Western Front and Dulce Et Decorum Est The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and the poems Dulce Et Decorum Est and Suicide in the Trenches are similar because they include some of the same themes like horrors of war and camaraderie. In the book these two themes are used multiple times and in the two poems they are used as well In Dulce Et Decorum Est it showed horrors of war when Wilfred Owen writes “Many had lost their…

Interdiction The book ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque described the horrors of World War I from the point of view of a young German man by the name of Paul Baumer. Though this character Erich Maria Remarque was able to portray real events that took place in World War I while bring the horrible terror that many young solders faced at that time in their lives. Three of the terrible factors he described in his book that took place in the real World War I were the terrible…

know it at the time, but these people suffered from a disorder called post-traumatic stress disorder, otherwise known as PTSD. Known by many names in the past, post-traumatic stress disorder presents itself throughout history and literature. Erich Maria Remarque captures the horrors of PTSD and exposes it…

but a "dirty and heavy laden" soldier. By portraying Paul’s weaknesses at home, Erich Maria Remarque conveys that due to the harsh experience on the front, Paul isolates himself from his childhood in order to accept the conditions of the front, making himself anxious to reconnect with his old home. When Paul arrives at the door of his house he becomes hesitant. In the first sentence of the first paragraph, Remarque creates a visual of surrender by using…

Erich Maria Remarque was a German-born author. Born in 1898, Remarque was one of the many young men conscripted into the German Army in World War I. During his service he would be injured by shrapnel, sending him to recover at an army hospital for the remainder of the war. Following the war, he would work in many different careers such as a stonecutter, teacher, editor, journalist and librarian before he pursued his love for writing full time. As an author, he would write and published several…

wiped out, and people still today can feel repercussions of the war. WWI showed no mercy to those who fought in battle. Erich Maria Remarque showed this in All Quiet in the Western Front when Paul Baumer and his squadron were walking in a forest and then saw people hanging from trees as their “sharp, downy, dead faces have the awful expressionlessness of dead children” (Remarque 130). There was no reservation in images that the soldiers had to mentally endure as there was a lack of people to…

the trenches, the more the earth of his mind becomes riddled with trenches and scarred from fallen shells. When a soldier returns home, he leaves the battlefield, but the battlefield has scarred his mind, and his head remains foggy with gas. Erich Maria Remarque, Ernest Hemingway, and Wilfred Owen documented the harsh reality faced by a soldier. These poets and authors words describe how loss is not just physical for a soldier. Each work describes how through war, a soldier loses his connection…

prescribed the role of being second to men, as well as being fragile and frail; while men are supposed to be courageous and do all of the heavy lifting. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, there is a recurring theme of gender roles and inequalities. William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is about a group of conspirators, who are opposed to the idea of having Rome…