All Quiet On the Western Front: Themes All Quiet on the Western Front is a graphic depiction of the horrors of war. In the short note before Chapter One‚ Remarque lets the reader know exactly what themes he intends. War is a savage and gratuitous evil‚ war is unnatural‚ and war is responsible for the destruction of an entire generation. Remarque is very clear on the strength of his themes‚ and uses graphic imagery to convey to the reader the physical and psychological impact that war
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“All Quiet on the Western Front” is a novel told by a nineteen-year-old by the name of Paul Bäumer. This novel is taken place in about 1914 until about 1918 during WWI. These men left everything behind including jobs‚ parents‚ wives‚ children‚ and dreams they hoped to eventually achieve. During this life journey the men take‚ they will begin to lose those who are close to them. Along with Paul were three others who had joined with him‚ Albert Kropp‚ Müller‚ and Leer. As well as four of their
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Quote Bank | Chapter | Page Number | Quote | Analysis | Chpt 1 | Pg 8 | “… But it wasn’t easy to stay out of it because at that time even our parents used the word ‘coward’ at the drop of a hat. People simply didn’t have the slightest idea of what was coming. As a matter of fact it was the poorest and simplest people who were most sensible” | * Theme: Betrayal | | Pg 9 | “ While they went on writing and making speeches‚ we saw field hospitals and men dying:
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trauma beneath a facade of wit and elitism‚ he began confronting his wartime torments‚ which incubated for a decade in thoughts and dreams. Within five weeks‚ keeping alert on strong coffee and tobacco‚ Remarque composed Im Westen Nichts Neues ( All Quiet on the Western Front) which sold a million and a half once published and was translated into twenty-nine languages. His contemporaries were his way of exorcising his own postwar trauma by recreating the amorphous hell of the western front. Because
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Inhumanity of War In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ one follows the life of Paul Baumer‚ a private in the German military in World War 1. He and his friends try to survive as the people around them get slaughtered. Slowly one by one his friends die while the others fight for their own lives. This is a war with many inhumane actions that lead to unnecessary death or injury. In the story many inhumane actions spark guilt within a character‚ causing a humane
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Morale: The Temporary Cure for War The author of All Quiet on the Western Front‚ Erich Maria Remarque‚ was sure to include many underlining purposes in his novel‚ having been in World War I himself. Much like the main character‚ Paul Baumer‚ Remarque had experienced life or death situations where any ordinary man’s mental stability would be called into question. In order to avoid going absolutely insane‚ soldiers developed defense mechanisms throughout the war. One of Remarque purposes was to express
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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
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written by Ernest Junger‚ and All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarsque which were written on the same frontier‚ yet were different on many basic levels. In Storm of Steel‚ Junger explains the war through his own personal journal that he had written while in the war and though very patriotic and nationalistic the events in the book were as they hapepned in history to the last detail that Junger wrote down. Meanwhile Remarsque having written All Quiet on the Western Front as a fiction
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Assignment #3: Focus on Chapter 4 1. Paul feels alone in battle and his only friend and family seems to be mother earth. He finds comfort and protection with earth since he’s alone in battle and there’s nothing else protecting him except for earth’s materials like bushes and trees hiding him form the enemy. Like a mother would protect her son. I’m not sure if this has much to do with the Oedipus Complex but since Paul is loving the earth ever so passionately he
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Should All Quiet on the Western Front Be Taught In School? War is hard. Losing family members isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Not knowing what could have been of them in the real world out of war. Having to learn about these things is hard‚ but I believe that it is something that we should learn. Learning about all these things teaches about the way that war messes with your mind. It makes you think of the things in ways you shouldn’t think of them. It teaches us what we would have to go
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