In every Disney movie‚ the villain is portrayed as a horrendous beast who was once a human. The thing is‚ every wicked witch or horrendous beast was once a human with a kind soul who suffered a traumatic event. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the German soldiers shift from fresh-out-of-high-school kids to shameless killing machines after witnessing the horrors of World War I. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ while fighting the Vietnam War without understanding
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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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A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque‚ born Erich Paul Remark‚ published All Quiet on the Western Front in 1929. However‚ the novel was not an immediate success. Numerous people viewed it as an anti-war novel‚ which‚ in some way‚ it is. The Nazis were especially despondent towards his novel; they pursued Remarque‚ which ultimately forced him to flee to Switzerland. His German citizenship was revoked‚ and “His books were publically burned in Berlin”
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returning to the front so readers could understand the ramifications of the war (65-70‚ 207-208). Paul also used personification‚ as seen when describing chance and death (14‚ 101). Multiple times throughout the novel Paul
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT ~ Movie Review 1. Describe the plot of the film (What it’s about‚ what happens) knowledge /10 All quiet on the western front is about six German solders that volunteer to fight in World War 1 after listening to many speeches from their teacher. They were all confident with going into war until they saw people coming back from the war. But after Paul the main character and his friends experience the 10-week brutal training they felt tired of the training
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Humans or Inhumane Beasts? Inhumane: lacking qualities of sympathy‚ pity‚ warmth‚ compassion‚ or the like; cruel; brutal(Inhumane: Dictionary). Inhumanity is one of the major themes portrayed in All Quiet on the Western Front. This is shown by the treatment of the Russian Soldier’s‚ Müller’s request for Kemmerich’s boots‚ and Paul’s reaction to the French man who fell into his hole. The treatment of the Russian soldiers is a prime example of inhumanity during the war. The Russians were treated
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A comrade is a friend or companion‚ to a soldier it means much more than that. Throughout the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the soldiers learn through numerous events on the front that their fellow comrades mean everything to them. In a place so horrific as the front their comrades are all they have that they can rely on and through this they have complete trust in one another. Amidst the chaos and terror of war‚ a soldier needs some sort of comfort to keep him going
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treat him as props who is at war to bring glory to the nation. They speak convincing words about glory‚ fame‚ and progress‚ and youth like Paul believes them‚ at first; however‚ after they see their friends dying and other terrors that war brings it all loses its meaning. Paul admits that sometimes he is jealous of people who just live their civilian lives; however‚ on
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of coping. Remarque‚using repetition on the emphasis of youth‚ omissing the real way Kemmerich died when he told Kemmerich’s mother‚ having Paul die on a regular and quiet day and using pathos to make one feel sympathy‚ wrote All Quiet on the Western Front as an anti-war novel. In the beginning of All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Remarque really emphasized on how Paul’s
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Surviving in Storytelling The act of killing is deeply intimate. It is both incredibly personal and emotionally devastating for all involved. Two people become forever connected in a tragic way. In All Quiet on the Western Front and The Things They Carried‚ characters Paul Baumer and Tim O’Brien both struggle with guilt following killing. The way in which they fixate the men they kill is particularly fascinating. They enter into a fantasy in which they imagine themselves living out these men’s lives
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