All Quiet on the Western Front
Enrich Maria Remarque stated in his preface, "This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war." All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel was to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. The story centers on Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm. But in the course of war he is broken up and in the end is left without hope. Through Paul Baumer. Remarque examines how war makes man inhumane. Remarque used the destructiveness of war as a major theme throughout his book. Primarily, war exposes innocent lives to violence that it leaves physical and mental damage to the victims for the rest of their lives. War strips all baggage of life away from the participant leaving only raw emotions; fear, hate, pa
All the reader is left with is that war is war. It cannot be defined. It has no sense and lacks any meaning. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque shows the destruction created by war. The war affects the victims and soldiers physically yet, more so emotionally. The war destroys the basic rights of human nature. Paul, for instance, becomes unable to imagine a future without the war and unable to remember how he felt in the past. He also loses his ability to speak to his family. Soldiers no longer pause to mourn fallen friends and comrades; when Kemmerich is on his deathbed, at the beginning of the novel, the most pressing question among his friends is who will inherit his boots. Among the living soldiers, however, Remarque portrays intense bonds of loyalty and friendship that spring up as a result of the shared experience of war. These feelings are the only romanticized element of the novel and are the only emotions that preserve the soldiers humanity. Throughout many scenes in the book, Remarque was able to demonstrate how war destroys and alters the world. ssion, confusion, pain, agony, aggression, and death. When soldiers take shelter in the graveyard, bombs explode all around them; the living hide in coffins and the dead are thrown from their graves. The destructive power is so great that even the basic differences between life and death become unclear. The impact of war on the spirit is faint. While fighting on t
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Approximate Word count = 975
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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