Western Front

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, is based on a German soldier’s view during World War I. This novel is based on how it is to be human in all situations, including war. It is clear that based on his personal experience in the war, Remarque felt the war was unnecessary and without cause, due to chain of events over a conflict. After reading the novel, I feel that World War I should have not happened. As a German soldier, Ramarque experienced the war on the front line, he is portrayed as…

Direct and impactful experiences are the only way to completely uncover the truth of situations. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Bäumer, a young German schoolboy-turned-soldier, exposes the reality of fighting in WWI. Like many others, Paul’s teacher, Mr. Kantorek, coerced Paul and his classmates into enlisting by fixating on the heroism of soldiers and the honor of serving one’s country. On the frontlines, Paul experiences firsthand the truth of the damage…

One of the major themes of All Quiet on the Western Front was the brutality of the war. Throughout the book, there were numerous times depicting what war was actually like, not what it was made out to be by the commanders behind the front line. The war brought strangers together and friends even closer. The comradeship that happens during the book is in direct result of how much the brutality of the war has caused. With the increasing brutality of the war, we’ve seen the increase of camaraderie…

All Quiet on the Western Front gives a nineteen-year-old boy's testimony of war. Paul Bäumer enlisted in the German army on the French front in World War I. Entering the army a young German patriot, eager to fight – thanks to his teacher’s stirring speeches –, Bäumer soon realizes he knew nothing about war but clichés. In the company of his schoolmates, he faces the constant physical terror and mental damage of true war and trench warfare. Erich Maria Remarque – born Erich Paul Remarque – was…

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war novel expressing the views of an average World War I soldier named Paul. Erich Maria Remarque uses an assortment of voice elements to create tone. In the passage on the preceding page, Paul describes his surroundings on the front. The tone of the excerpt is presented to be emotionless and overwhelming. An example of a voice element that has a large role in the tone is diction. Diction is used in the excerpt by the use of the…

the great horrors of the war was an extraordinary sense of comradeship that was forged between the soldiers as they went through countless hardships and unimaginable suffering together. Throughout Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul and the men of the Second Company received strength from one another. As the war created a sharp distinction between soldiers and civilians, Paul and his friends only had each other. When all else fail, they could only rely on the…

their lifetimes. Both Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, and O’Brien, author of In the Field, write from the perspectives of a veteran that fought in a war. In All Quiet on the Western Front and In the Field, common themes of the horrors of war, the lost generation, and symbolism are presented by Remarque and O’Brien with ease. In both, the stories the authors utilize the horrors of war. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the use of flamethrowers is prominent as the invention of…

Baumer to many is a of many traits; but when it comes to war he’s caring, a man scarred from war, and a brother to his comrades. When it came to his comrades, Baumer would do anything for them; they were apart of him that could never be left for dead. When in need of help, their voices “are more to [him] than life,”; they are the “most comforting thing there is” (Remarque 212). They have developed a brotherhood so strong that not even his relationship with his family compares to it. During his…

In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the most prominent symbol are Kemmerich’s boots. The boots symbolize more than one aspect in the novel, which develops into major theme. The footwear can symbolize death, the sacrifice of emotions during war, and cheapness of life in the battlefield. Once the soldier Kemmerich dies, his boots are taken and worn by Müller, then worn by Paul, the protagonist of the story. Müller’s time with the boots were short and dies painfully.…

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…