Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front
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.
In 1914, a young German soldier named Lothar Dietz, fighting on the Western Front wrote a letter home to his friends and family describing a near identical visual of what the film, All Quiet on The Western front displayed. He vividly describes an absolutely extirpated landscape, an unthinkable amount of casualties and even the loss of spirit and fight amongst vast majorities of men. He says things such as “one can’t possibly feel happy in a place where all nature has been devastated” and “We don’t expect the pine …show more content…
He speaks of the social difficulties of making friends and keeping spirits up in the war zone, “Righteous men speak only of battle, too afraid to speak the truth of wars destructions”. He goes on to say the only jokes soldiers share are the ones that slightly mask crude and hurtful reality of war. It really becomes clear at this stage of the letter that Harvenmann wrote this letter out of fear, the social aspect of was becoming I distal memory and the harsh reality of war had really started to sink in and sink
In 1914, a young German soldier named Lothar Dietz, fighting on the Western Front wrote a letter home to his friends and family describing a near identical visual of what the film, All Quiet on The Western front displayed. He vividly describes an absolutely extirpated landscape, an unthinkable amount of casualties and even the loss of spirit and fight amongst vast majorities of men. He says things such as “one can’t possibly feel happy in a place where all nature has been devastated” and “We don’t expect the pine …show more content…
He speaks of the social difficulties of making friends and keeping spirits up in the war zone, “Righteous men speak only of battle, too afraid to speak the truth of wars destructions”. He goes on to say the only jokes soldiers share are the ones that slightly mask crude and hurtful reality of war. It really becomes clear at this stage of the letter that Harvenmann wrote this letter out of fear, the social aspect of was becoming I distal memory and the harsh reality of war had really started to sink in and sink