Both Paul Baumer of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Brutus of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar are innocent and trusting when introduced to the reader‚ but after experiencing indescribable pain‚ both become realistic stoics without hope for a better life. Both characters’ naiveté leads them to make a fatal error. Because of their mistakes‚ Paul and Brutus suffer horrifying experiences and must do things that they later regret. The trauma that they must live through
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In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen‚ and Route March by Charles Sorley the notion of the abyss must be overcome in order to survive. The notion of the abyss takes over and threatens Paul’s life. He discovers the abyss when he meets the Russian Prisoners. Paul states "A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends" (Remarque 193-194). Paul can only survive the war by killing
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1/3/13 All Quiet On the Western Front “The front is a cage in which we must await fearfully whatever may happen” said Paul in All Quiet On the Western Front. In this book friends from college are recruited to the army to fight for their country in the Great War. The boys were full of pride until they got to the front and were conquered by fear. The front wasn’t what they expected; everything that was done was for nothing but survival. Like any war the war came to an end but not all the college
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towards War from Different Aspects of Life In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ different attitudes are betrayed from different people. Attitudes that come from various walks of life. When someone lives in a certain area and is surrounded by certain things‚ I believe it forms your opinion about life and people. That attitude can either make you or break you. War is definitely an example of a situation that can change your thoughts‚ actions‚ and emotions. The overriding theme of All Quiet on the Western
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT The author Erich Maria Remarque wrote the book All Quiet on the Western Front to present how a group of naive and enthusiastic teenagers endure and suffer from the cruel battlefield during WWI. All of them are motivated by propaganda techniques to join the army and they expected the quick end of the war. However‚ none of them seems to realize the fact that they are not able to go back unless they died or the enduring war ends. From their belongings‚ the readers can
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to the human soul; this loss of innocence is a recurring motif and major theme throughout the novel. Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. The story follows the protagonist‚ Paul Baumer‚ a young‚ artistic boy who enlists into the German army in World War I and challenges the false glorification of war. Throughout the story Paul repeatedly faces horrifying experiences and by the end of the novel‚ he is left both physically and mentally broken
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All quiet on the Western front chapter 10 Compared to other chapters the language used is more engaging and assay the emotional experience of the war not only by soldiers but by civilians caught in the crossfire. However the first half of this chapter focuses on a lighter note with the group guarding a supply dump also giving them a chance to sleep and eat; Remarque overemphasizes the fact that sleeping and good food is a luxury to the soldiers. Bitter comical moments seem to take place in the
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transferred to the Western Front‚ 2nd Company‚ Reserves‚ Field Depot of the 2nd Guards Reserve Division. In late July of the same year‚ Remarque was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg‚ right arm‚ and neck. He then spent the remainder of the war in an Army hospital in Germany. It is important to note these experiences‚ because as an author‚ this time in combat gave Remarque an unprecedented level of insight into the life of a soldier in the Great War. The first-hand account from the lowest levels of
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In the film “All Quiet on The Western Front” a first hand war experience is depicted from the point of view of soldiers who fought on the front of the German line. People who were not fighting had these beliefs of what happened at the front. They were told countless stories but all of them were war cliches which were far from the truth of what really happened. The blood‚ sweat‚ bodies‚ countless injured and dead‚ the suffering‚ people knew it happened but not to the extreme that it was. This film
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All Quiet on the Western Front Long Essay All Quiet on the Western Front was a story of a group of young children‚ nineteen years old or so‚ who enlisted in the military on the advice of one of their professors. They were told‚ and believed‚ that they would be seen as heroes in everyone’s eyes‚ and that they were doing such great things for their country and showing extreme nationalism and patriotism. As the months went on‚ fighting on the front lines‚ these men realized that this life was nothing
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