The greatest war novel of all time is the title , “All Quiet on the Western Front” has been given all around the world. This novel written by Erich Maria Remarque takes readers through the traumatic journey of a German soldier, Paul and his companions, who all fought in WWI. Through the use of juxtaposition, the author conveys the message of how drastically soldier’s values and beliefs change after war by showing that war is not only bloody but also strips away everything that soldiers once…
From 1914-1918, one of the bloodiest wars in all of human history waged on. Erich Maria Remarque illustrates this reality in All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel follows a young soldier, Paul and his journey from a naive schoolboy to a hardened, experienced soldier, this change is seen quite drastically through the novel. Change is something that is unavoidable, especially in times of war. In Paul Baumer, this change is seen in his changing emotional connection to the war and his views…
In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the devastations that result in war are exemplified by the protagonist, Paul Baümer and his comrades. The devastations of war are incredibly prevalent throughout the entire novel. From the death of friends to the desensitization of seeing a corpse or a brutal injury, death is so prominent in his life that Paul has even personified ‘him.’ The tragic effect of war is highlighted through Paul’s irrationality, vulnerability, and…
In Nazi Germany the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque was banned. Millions of copies were burned and Remarque lost his German citizenship and fled the country. The Nazi party did not agree with anything that went against what the party was about and that was exactly what this book did. The Nazis objected to this because the book told how the soldiers truly felt about war and it told how awful it was on the front lines. As well as, Remarque felt as though the soldiers…
Death is everywhere, it is in your home and in the streets, it can happen to everyone and anyone, death has no discrimination. Death is a general at war. “All Quiet on the Western Front” embraces the brutality and carnage of war by showing the innocence of young men who are destroyed, the pain they experience, and the suffering theses young men endure. Soldiers are changed the moment they enter the battlefield. In the novel, Paul and his classmates joined the war as soldiers. They are…
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, a victim and former soldier of war. The author served in the German army during the “Great War” and experienced traumatizing events, such as carrying a dying comrade and frequently working at the darkest hours of the night trying to avoid sniper fire. Once discharged from the military due to medical reasons, Remarque struggled through day to day life, constantly experiencing delusions and trauma from the war. Remarque…
flourished on the nationalism in the early 1900’s of its people, ready to encounter an attack at any moment and any time. People forget the decision of war until they are in the flame of its fire. In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque explains his war experience in World War 1 through a character, Paul Bumer—a kind and sensitive man. While in school, he used to write poems. Paul’s teacher brainwashed him and other students. He convinced them, by the idea of glory,…
Erich Maria Remarque is perhaps one of the greatest German novelists in the early twentieth century. He was born on June 22, 1898, in Osnabruck, Germany. He received U.S. citizenship in 1947, but preferred to live in Europe until he died on September 25, 1970, in Locarno, Switzerland at the age of seventy-two. His famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front was first published in 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and published in a book form later in 1929. Because of the nature of…
shows what the young men go through while in the war. You learn just how close Paul is to his friends. The book also shows what Paul goes through as each one of his friends are taken down by the war. This definitely effects Paul psychologically. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front uses a lot of literary devices to illustrate what soldiers go through while at war. He does a good job showing the psychological impact on Paul during the war…
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, takes place on the Western Front of World War I. The narrator and main character of the book is Paul Baumer, a nineteen-year-old boy who fights for the German forces. The book follows the lives of Paul and his fellow schoolmates who have all enlisted in the German forces with the encouragement of their schoolmaster, Kantorek. Throughout the book, we follow their lives and deaths and everything in-between. We are introduced to the horrors…