All Quiet on the Western Front and The Sufferings of Young Werther: a comparison. All Quiet on the Western Front and The Sufferings of Young Werther are books that have impacted literature in ways no one ever dreamed. All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first popular books that were written from the perspective of a solider that was on the German side. This allowed for a whole new side of the war to be seen. It also showed how the soldiers struggled to cope with the world around them and
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All Quiet on the Western Front War War is a battle of not only the physical but also the psychological. In the text‚ All quiet on the western front‚ by Enrich Maria Remarque‚ and the poem Homecoming‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ our understanding is challenged through various representations of war such as innocence‚ srvivl and grief. Throughout the novel‚ “All quiet on the western front”‚ we as the readers are taken on a journey with the character Paul Baumer‚ a young man‚ whom started the war with a “head[s]
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All Quiet on the Western Front In All is Quiet in the Western Front‚ Paul Bäumer is the main character: with this‚ the audience follows Bäumer with his story inside and outside of war. It is through Bäumer’s point of view that the audience catches a glimpse of reality during World War I. During his service‚ the audience can see the transformation from a schoolboy to an emotionally and psychologically damaged man. (Cliffnotes) The audience learns the reality of World War I through the story of Bäumer:
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War Dehumanization “If you think of humanity as one large body‚ then war is like suicide‚ or at best‚ self mutilation”( Jerome Crabb). Paul Bäumer‚ the protagonist of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque fulfills his understanding of Jerome Crabb’s quote after experiencing everything war has to offer. In the novel‚ Paul truly experiences what being in war can physically and mentally do to not only a man‚ but their families as well. It is apparent that Erich Maria Remarque had Paul
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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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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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Glimpse of 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
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Setting (DESCRIBE the time period‚ geographical location‚ historical/social context) The setting in All Quiet on the Western Front takes place around the battlefield of the war‚ mainly the trenches. It was dark‚ morbid‚ chaotic and hopeless. Trench life was dreadful according to Paul. There was so much blood‚ mud and clamor from the blasts and bombs. The constant pounding of those bombs lasted for days‚ rumbling in those
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That Fabulous Day. “Young and old‚ civilians and military men burned with the same excitement. It was like a Brotherhood Day.”1[1] Everyone was willing to do their part and fight for their country. However‚ on another side of things‚ in the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the brutal realities of war and mental damage caused by such deplorable conditions. “We have become wild beasts… [w]e
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confession‚ and least of all an adventure‚ for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war” (Epigraph). In All Quiet on the Western Front‚ there are many themes present throughout the text. The most important of which‚ being the psychological effects that the war has on the soldiers. Out of all of the men fighting throughout the war and those who physically survived
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