Explain why stalemate developed on the Western front By December 1914 stalemate developed on the Western front because of 3 main reasons‚ new weapons‚ lack of plans and the circumstances of the battle of Marne‚ race to the seas and the 1st battle of Ypres! The Schlieffen plan had failed by November 1914. It didn’t entirely go to plan.. What the Germans presumed wasn’t right. Firstly they presumed that it would only take 6 weeks to get through Belgium and that it wouldn’t take long
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Tabitha Forms in Literature September 27‚ 2004 Period 11 All Quiet on the Western Front Essay A lost generation‚ emotional destruction‚ the reality of war‚ these are all ideas displayed in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front that prove the validity of the statement in the preface. These ideas and more expressed by the author‚ Erich Maria Remarque‚ present the reader with the war novel of a lifetime. A war novel that is different from any other because of these ideas
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The novel All Quiet on the Western Front was published in 1929. Many publishers doubted its success since it appeared to be exceedingly honest and was not typical for the then social ideology of glorification of defeated Germany in the First World War. Erich Maria Remarque‚ who went off to war as a volunteer in 1916‚ was not so much a creator of this literary breakthrough but a witness of merciless European battlefields. The author described the horrors of war honestly‚ simply‚ without unnecessary
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All Quiet on the Western Front Vs. The Wars During World War I‚ many soldiers were impacted by the mental and physical effects that have changed their lives in positive‚ but mostly negative ways. There are two novels that talk about two men in World War I‚ however each tells a different story on their struggles on the battlefield. On one of the books‚ The Wars by Timothy Findley‚ focuses on the protagonist Robert Ross‚ a Canadian soldier that joined the war. Robert Ross mainly joined to war because
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on the Western Front‚ Paul Baumer‚ says‚ "I believe we are lost" (Remarque 123). The soldiers themselves recognize that they are part of a lost generation. They are‚ "forlorn like children‚ and experienced like old men" (123). Lost Generation is revealed in All Quiet on the Western Front through the young soldiers loss of innocence‚ loss of life‚ and loss of home. The First World War has no positive effect on the lives of the young soldiers. The soldiers lose their innocence on the front. They are
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Destruction through Symbols in All Quiet on the Western Front War. Very few words invoke such strong and conflicting reactions. War demands honor and death. War offers hope and despair. War creates the ultimate challenge and the pinnacle of defeat. Throughout history‚ man struggles to understand war and its impact on the people engaged in its horrors. Paul Baumer‚ the protagonist in Erich Maria Remarque’s historical fiction novel All Quiet on the Western Front‚ enlists in the war with his comrades. Throughout
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All Quiet on the Western Front Essay Much like the present‚ there is a sort of intangible space between the older and younger generations. In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ youths like Paul Baümer must deal with the disillusion they feel towards what they were taught to believe in by those of the older generation. Once Paul and his fellow classmates are shipped off to war‚ he and the others learn that some of the things they were taught could not be farther from the truth. The author‚ Eric Remarque
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In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel ” All quiet on the western front”‚ The uselessness‚ hopelessness‚ and effects of war are displayed using Paul Baumer’s‚ a young German soldier‚ experience and encounters while being on the front line. The effects of war are far worse than the advantages or rewards of war. In the first chapter there is a wide range of greediness and desensitization. When the remaining eighty soldiers came back‚ hungry and wanting‚ heinrich takes no notice and keeps on cooking for one
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This Article tells an important story. A story‚ which is about a hotel manager who faces these challenges that no ordinary man would ever think he would have to face. An ordinary man‚ living an ordinary life‚ with his ordinary family. In the beginning of the story Paul starts out stating his name and his occupation just as n ordinary man would do. "My name is Paul Rusesabagina. I am a hotel manager." Then out of the blue‚ an attack happens. Suddenly Hutu`s are safe and Tutsis are not. This outbreak
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Would you go to war if it is going to injure you mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally? In All Quiet On The Western Front‚ a soldier named Paul goes to war with his friends. They are really close but at the end of the war they don’t all come out of the are. All Quiet On The Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque tells us how soldiers can be injured mentally‚ physically‚ and emotionally. The war can affect you mentally because it can change how you see the world. “Then at last i stand before the brown
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