“Paths of Glory” and “All Quiet On The Western Front” Contrasts and Comparisons By Stew Harney “Paths of Glory” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” are two different stories about the 1st world war. They are similar and different in their own ways. Many children born in North America usually grow up seeing war movies from the America’s point of view. This is different in Paths of Glory and All Quiet on the Western Front. These films/novels display how European countries fought this
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Only two (2) percent of the Russian men who were born in the 1920s survived the end of the war. In other words‚ an entire generation of men had disappeared by 1945. As a result‚ there were villages and small communities where the only inhabitants were women. It is very likely that Stalin invented the idea to create inseminate groups of the surviving‚ sexually active and usable men. These groups of six to ten travelled through the Russian countryside‚ involving the villages around Moscow as well as
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of Commons in 1940‚ Winston Churchill once said “Victory at all costs‚ victory in spite of all terror‚ victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory‚ there is no survival.” Many historians as well as leaders argue that although the road to victory is strenuous and arduous‚ it often proves worthy in the end for victory has a direct correlation to survival. This proves true in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul‚ the protagonist goes to fight
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In all Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque the main argument is the tragedy of war. Through detailing the experience of the main character Paul‚ the terror a young soldier goes through is exposed. It is shown how in war many people die‚ that leaders are unfair and nothing good comes out of it. The war was a tragic event that could have been resolved with peace and treaties‚ therefore moving forward wars should be avoided. In all Quiet on the Western front tragic events happen in
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All Quiet of the Western Front: Movie vs. Book The book all Quiet of the Western Front demonstrates a clear similarity in regard to themes with it’s original movie. Although the reader and the audience of the movie can take different aspects of the theme due to the setting of the movie and the imagery used in the book. In fact the added scenarios in the movie had a different impact then in the book; for example‚ in the movie Paul was introduced as a schoolboy and through the setting of movie
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All Quiet on the Western Front “The first bombs‚ the first explosion‚ burst into our hearts.” (Remarque 88) This is what the soldiers felt like in Erich Maria Remarque novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Paul Baumer‚ a young man serving in the German army during World War One‚ is constantly being faced with the horrible and terrifying aspects of war. From seeing‚ his fellow soldiers lying dead on the battle field‚ to learning how to survive on the western front of the war. With his rifle by his
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is an adventure‚ easily getting killed as soon as they step a foot at the front-line. The “Lost Generation” was a term originated from a garage owner in a conversation with his employee that was witnessed by Gertrude Stein‚ which was later popularised by the American novelist‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ as an epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises. Also‚ Stein told Hemingway‚ “That is what you are. That’s what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.” In
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greater than whatever it was that earned him the Distinguished Service Cross‚ Navy Cross and French Croix de Guerre".[3] Years after the completion of Company K‚ Ernest Hemingway published Men At War: The Best War Stories of All Time. In the introduction Hemingway notes that of all the stories published in the novel‚ the two he most desired to publish were omitted‚ Andre Malraux’s Man’s Fate and William March’s Nine Prisoners‚ one of the original serialized excerpts from Company K. Hemingway states that
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Alienation According to the Webster’s New World College Dictionary‚ alienation is 1. Separation‚ aversion‚ aberration. 2. Estrangement or detachment. 3. Mental derangement; insanity. The theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is about how World War I destroyed a generation of young men. It has taken from them the last of their childhood years‚ it has destroyed their faith in their elders‚ it has taught them an individual life is meaningless--and
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Arthur Tsao 25 January 2011 Ritchie 1 All Quiet on the Western Front: Literary Log #1 “We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhaur. At first astonished‚ then embittered‚ and finally indifferent‚ we recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush‚ not intelligence but the system‚ not freedom but drill” (22). In this quote‚ Remarque explains the differences between valuable material and knowledge. The imagery he describes compares “educational”
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