All Quiet On The Western Front

“You limp, will you get out – you hound, you skunk, sneak out of it, would you? “Himmelstos’s eye becomes glassy, I knock his head against the wall – “You cow” – I kick him in the ribs – “You swine” – I push him toward the door and shove him out head first. ”…

“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a wasteland.”It is common knowledge that war is physically destructive and treacherous. It is common knowledge that soldiers all around the world perish daily. In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, a new aspect of war is introduced….

The Grabber: At the beginning of the story, it is basically an introduction to the characters and the way they live as soldiers. The beginning of the story focuses on giving the reader a feel for what the surrounding area is and what the lifestyle is like. The reader is drawn in and intrigued by…

Dehumanization is the destruction of human individuality. Both Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun illustrate this harsh reality of soldier’s dehumanization in World War I. Both novels reveal that no matter which nationality the soldier was in the war, they underwent the same pattern of…

The harsh realities of war force soldiers to undergo drastic personality transformations making them feel disconnected from their previous way of life. The war separates them from their past both physically and psychologically. In his novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses books, poplar trees, and butterflies to illustrate the life altering effects…

In his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque depicts a transition in the nature of reality from idealism to realism and naturalism. This transition takes place at different parts of his novel, and to different degrees. At the beginning of the novel, on page 12, we see through Paul Bumer’s comments regarding Kantorek…

All Quiet on the Western Front is an esoteric announcement against war, which centers particularly around the wrecking impacts of war on fighters’ mankind. As they rest, Paul depicts the gathering of German schoolboys who enrolled with him at the pushing of their schoolmaster, Kantorek. Alongside these friends, Paul depicts a few other people who…

Erich Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front describes the young German soldier Paul Baumer’s experiences in World War I, from his training to his death on the front. In my examination of the novel, the main theme is that war is horror, and a waste of life. War destroyed Paul’s childhood, his mentality,…

War narratives before Erich Maria Remarque’s times still leaned toward subjects of glorification. escapade. and award. In showing his realistic version of a soldier’s experience. Remarque stripped that from war novels in his antiwar novel. All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque accurately depicts both the physical and mental adversities of war. This novel should…

rque. Little, Brown and Company. (U.S.A., 1990) 248pp. On page 1 of the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front”, we are introduced to a group of soldiers who transition from regular human beings to instinct-driven animals as they enter the front line of the war (53). These soldiers, including Paul Baumer and his childhood…