WHAT DID THE MOVIE, “ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT”; TELL YOU ABOUT WORLD WAR 1 AND WARFARE IN GENERAL, USE MOVIE EXAMPLES.…
In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque describes World War I through the eyes of a soldier, Paul. It goes into details about combat, food shortage, going on leave, and the life at home. While reading this book, I couldn't help but notice that I would get nervous in some chapters about what would happen next. The author goes into so much detail, giving the reader that first person feeling while he/she is reading the book. Remarque also describes the horrific and unthinkable events of World War I by going deeper than the average "war novel," allowing the reader to engage more. The author reveals that World War I is different than the other wars before it because it details the artillery and the civilians' lives. It also reveals that World War I is a trench and chemical warfare which is new.…
‘All Quiet on the Western Front”, written by Erich Remarque was a book written in the perspective of a German soldier in World War I. The significance of this section is that it sheds light on all of the aspects on war, and the fact that war was not what everyone made it seem like. Being from the viewpoint of a soldier, it gives first hand explanation as to what led him to become a solider. It is important to understand that no one really knows what happens in war until you are actually in it.…
Erich Maria Remarque’s original 1928 novel, turned movie, All Quiet on The Western Front, is very useful in helping to understand the many social and cultural difficulties soldiers faced in WW1 during the period of 1914-1918. One could argue that the given film is reliable, but being a secondary source this is arguable. AQOTWF exhibits the saviour physical, and mental stress German soldiers of World War 1 encountered, and the raw emotional detachment from civilian life displayed by many on returning home from the front. The film has a strong connection and relation to many poems, letters and images received and taken right from the Western Front itself and is very useful in helping viewers to grasp unique insight of physically commencing in battle, living conditions, and rare friendships formed in such harsh, dreadful conditions.…
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front is arguably one of the finest war novels today read by thousands of high school students every year. This story portrays the life of a soldier in the German army during World War One, fighting against the Central Powers Through the eyes of the protagonist, Paul Bäumer, readers get an insight on the horrors of war and the effects it has on the ones participating. In All Quiet On The Western Front, Remarque utilizes boots and books to reveal that war’s brutality induces the desensitization of the young soldiers involved consequently bringing about a generation of outcasts that can no longer fit into…
The U.S. casualties in the "Iraqi Freedom" conquest totals so far at about Sixteen Thousand military soldiers. During WWI Germany suffered over seven million. All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. The novel focuses on a young German soldier and the predicaments he encounters in during his life on the front. The novel displays a powerful image to all of its readers and tends to have a long lasting effect on the way that they interpret war. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that encourages nations to consider the horrible hostilities that war brings on humans before entering into global conflicts. From his graphic imagery and his detailed description of character relationships, Remarque depicts the brutality of the war at the front.…
Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the prestigious novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” was born on June 22, 1898, and had a first hand insight on the war the book is based on, the first World War. Before he started his career as a writer, Remarque started his fight for the German army at the age of 18. Remarque’s previous military history helped shape his story behind the book. The characters Remarque chose for “All Quiet on the Western Front” portrays his personal thoughts and experiences.…
Only two (2) percent of the Russian men who were born in the 1920s survived the end of the war. In other words, an entire generation of men had disappeared by 1945. As a result, there were villages and small communities where the only inhabitants were women.…
After a few days hiding in the house of Mr. Cura, it seemed that our crossing of the border would be as soon as possible since the controls and patrols of the Germans had intensified, therefore the priest this evening after his daily inspection of the fence along the stretch of the border told Claude that it’s time, should be ready in an hour. First, need to walk a distance of five hundred meters between the trees, along the Swiss border, to reach the site through which should cross under the fence of barbed wire, this done at the precise moment when the priest indicate us, it’s a delicate maneuver for the Germans had a guard post not distant from there, and they could clearly watched the place of our crossing. We begin walk among the trees,…
Throughout the novel the radio symbolizes a widespread social problem demonstrates people in general neglecting the need for quality human interaction. A perfect example of this problem is Werner. When in contact with loved ones at the beginning and end of the novel Werner was overall happier than when secluding himself from them. When requesting to travel home was brutally refused by Dr.Hauptmann, Werner shows signs of depression when thinking, “I cannot go home, he thinks. And I cannot stay.” (272). This also exposes Werner grieving the beating of Frederick, resulting in losing his best friend as well. Werner enters an even darker psychological state when refusing to write Jutta back, which is most likely a variable of his sickness during…
War is often viewed as one of the most dangerous and brutal events ever created. It utterly destroys the humanity and mental state of soldiers fighting in the war. In All Quiet on the Western Front, a world renowned war novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the epigraph states that this novel “will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” Staying true to this quote, Remarque tells of the horrors of World War I and fittingly describes the effects that war has on humans through the eyes of the protagonist, Paul Bäumer. In his epigraph Remarque says, “this book is to be neither an accusation, nor a confession, and least of all an adventure.” Except for a few notable exceptions,…
“All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque explores the idea that men have escaped the shells of battle but were often destroyed by war. Remarque presents the changes in Paul and his friends and by displaying the sense of isolation the men feel after the war by using a range of techniques.…
In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel ” All quiet on the western front”, The uselessness, hopelessness, and effects of war are displayed using Paul Baumer's, a young German soldier, experience and encounters while being on the front line. The effects of war are far worse than the advantages or rewards of war. In the first chapter there is a wide range of greediness and desensitization. When the remaining eighty soldiers came back, hungry and wanting, heinrich takes no notice and keeps on cooking for one hundred and fifty men until Tjaden tells him that they are the only ones left to be fed. Everyone else was either dead or being treated.At first read, it seems that Paul and his comrades are sad or overwhelmed by this reality but they take no real notice.…
John F. Kennedy once said, “Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” War has taken lives, stolen innocence and caused suffering. These themes have had a large impact on literature especially in the book, All Quiet on the Western Front and the poem, “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”. The two are described from the point of view of soldiers within the war which is especially appropriate considering the authors Erich Remarque and Wilfred Erich were soldiers in World War I. Both works emphasize the horrors of war and the toll it takes on individuals involved. The different approaches taken strongly reflect the themes of camaraderie, the glorification of war and the killing of those who may be similar.…
The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) in Switzerland, tells the story of 6 German soldiers who volunteered to fight in the first World War, and it describes their demise intellectually, spiritually, and physically. All Quiet on the Western Front displays all of the anguish one would expect in any war novel, but it also exposes the horrors of a new kind of war. Machine guns had never been used before World War I. The narrator provides the reader with a close account of the many atrocities of the war. Even those who would be lucky enough to physically survive would still be victims.…