War Figurative Language

There are many ways to serve in the military such as, volunteering or getting drafted. At first war may seem glorious and honorable, but after the propaganda and attention fade away, soldiers will understand war’s true face. As a veteran of WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower once said “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.” After surviving a countless battles, many only perceive it as a curse on humanity and a complete loss of human lives. This concept is depicted through Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Thomas Hardy’s “The Man He Killed.” Remarque describes this theme with Paul Baumer, a German soldier killing others in order to stay alive. As he becomes war hardened by combat itself, he begins to be aware of warfare’s worthless actions. Likewise, Hardy incorporates his view of a meaningless war through an officer pondering his past morale and actions. Hardy and Remarque both employ diction and figurative language to demonstrate war’s futile and impractical effect on all soldiers’ lives.
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In total, Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, and Hardy’s “The Man He Killed,” were created to demonstrate the uselessness and impractical effect on soldiers’ lives. By way of descriptive diction as well as figurative language, both Remarque and Hardy establish what it is to be another soldier in an otherwise empty war. By sending men and women into battle knowing that it will not solve anything, the number of lives lost to a fallacious cause may never cease. Therefore, until we are efficient in solving peaceful conflict across the map, what can be done in meanwhile, in order to prevent any more wars? How can we achieve