Analysis Of All Quiet On The Western Front By Eric Remarque

During a violent war scene, Paul Baumer, describes what war has done to the men fighting in it. He explains that they “have become wild beasts”, only focused on doing whatever they had to, to hang onto life a little longer (Remarque, 113). Remarque utilizes a metaphor to make apparent that war has turned these men into animals, who worry only

In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses metaphors to help the reader better understand the mindset and hardships of a soldier. Earlier in the book, Remarque talks of the soldier’s unexplainable longing to be a part of the war. He compares the front to “a mysterious whirlpool” and himself to the still water just outside of it (Remarque 55). Although he is far from the center, he is still “slowly, irresistibly, inescapably” sucked into combat. Remarque also illustrates the horrors of war and the mental obstacles a soldier must go through. The soldiers are “little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls”, meaning the war has made their minds fragile and prone to many dangers. Their tragic experiences makes their flame “flicker and sometimes

Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front has successfully proven its importance and has greatly influenced many reader's opinions on war. The remarkable novel demonstrates that the destruction of war affects beyond just the physical level. It delves into the tragic experiences soldiers face during wartime and shows the consequences of war. The most important consequence of war that Remarque displays is the idea of lost generation. This is a significant theme as it occurs throughout the novel. Paul Baumer and his fellow companions share their ideas on war, experiences, and how the war has affected them and their generation through dialect. This gives readers a realistic insight of what it is like to be a soldier during World

Soldiers on the front constantly endured death and the fear of being killed, but the one thing that scared men more than dying was going back home. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque wanted to tell of a generation of men that may have escaped bombs and bullets, but were still defeated by the brutality of the war. Even when men recovered from wounds, they could never recover from the impact war had on their minds. Remarque fulfilled the purpose he set for his book. Through his words he showed the depth of how the war mentally and physically scarred the men.

Being in the war himself, Remarque has encountered the abhorrences of it firsthand. He has seen individuals bite the dust and the battering that his kindred companions and fighters took to the point he developed PTSD. In his novel, he was attempting to pass on his musings on war to the subjects of Germany and in the end America and different nations. This is a hostile to war novel which depicted the cruelty of the war in courses, for example, themes, images and the immaculate fierceness that has been depicted in the novel.

As a prior soldier in World War I, Remarque himself got a cold wake-up call on what war was really like. In his book, he did not censor nor romanticized a thing about war - as many prior books had done - and let the truth flow out through his book, showing the world what it was really like for the soldiers out on the battlefield. All Quiet on the Western Front tells of the horrendous brutality of war, and Remarque did a fine job in showing it. He dropped the prior, unrealistic idea of war as honorable, patriotic, and glorious, to show that it was actually brutal, meaningless, and an endless nightmare for many. The enemies of the soldiers were not their opposing nations but also their own country leaders and battle leaders, as Remarque presents the idea that war was a meaningless ploy to gain power and glory, sacrificing their own youth and people to do so. In addition, with the new weapon technology, killing is faster and easier than before, such as a weapon that can shoot and kill hundreds of men at a time. It made killing impersonal and instinct. Men on the field were forced physically and psychologically to become savage, animals whose instinct was to kill. They lose their humanity, and

In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque discusses themes including patriotism, honor, bravery, and war. He explains how each topic relates to the lives of nineteen-year-old young men during the first World War. In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque either supports or rejects these topics by illustrating them in the soldier’s daily lives.

Remarque uses Paul’s experience to show readers that war can destroys young soldiers mentally. Paul finally has an opportunity to leave the front to return home. He doesn’t know he is changed before he returned home. When he meets his families, he doesn’t know how to talk to them, and he doesn’t want to talk to them. When his sister tells him that his mom has cancer, he has no any sad expression. He finds out everything is same but he is changed; he doesn’t belong to his hometown. Paul supposes to have pleasant experience and countless conversations with his families. However, it’s opposite; moreover, he feels that he is a stranger when he is at home. His mom loves him so much; he must be died inside so he doesn’t feel grieved when he knows his mom has cancer. In the summer of 1918, he goes back to front again. The power of the enemies is too strong; German military inflicts heavy losses. Paul’s friends are all killed; He feels lonely and hopeless; he is ready to die. In October 1918, he dies, but “his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come” (296). When a

All Quiet on the Western Front is a short book, but remarkably deep. More than 50 years after its jolting prose, haunting poetry, and powerful truths slashed their way into the consciousness of a worldwide readership, All Quiet still stands at the forefront of a host of novels on that most tragic recurrence in the history of human experience: war. All the aspects of trench warfare are present—excitement, boredom, horror, hunger, fear, dirt, alienation, imminent death, futility, to name a few. All Quiet has a pervasive sense of uselessness, an initially unvoiced but later fully expressed question of 'Just what is this war about, and why am I being put on the line for it?' The answer is, of course, nothing, and if All Quiet has but one overriding message, it is that war is awful, and young people ought not to fight. All Quiet is not a book which glorifies the German war effort, or portrays soldiers as heroes. In Remarque's own words, it is “an attempt to give an account of a generation that was destroyed by the war—even those of it who survived the shelling.” As such, it is brutal and confronting, but in the best possible way. Anti-war fiction has seldom been this effective, or this memorable for that matter.

Remarque wrote the book All Quiet on the Western Front because he wanted people to realize that war is a indescribable event that scars and traumatizes people to an extreme degree.The soldiers are running and diving into and, “When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell fire then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother”(Remarque 55).These soldiers worst fear is marching into No Man’s land because of these bombardments which Remarque uses a great metaphor to reiterate the fact that war is so nightmarish and heinous.Remarque wrote this book so he could show that

War is consistently portrayed in literary works as a concept of horror, a clash of physical and mental strength, with its soldiers either depicted as heroes or humans transformed into animalistic killers. Favouring the latter approach, All Quiet On The Western Front by German veteran Erich Maria Remarque is a war story that captures the hardships experienced by soldiers during World War I, their disconnection from civilian lives, and the struggle and death of the protagonist Paul Bäuner and his friends. Remarque conveys the destruction and reconstruction of a soldier’s psyche as he describes the experiences of Bäuner and his comrades at the front line of the war. All Quiet on The Western Front does not shed light on the soldiers’ courageousness or heroism, but rather discusses the effects of the war on their identities, personalities, and views on life.

War did not only obliterate the flesh of men; it destroyed the very essence of humanity within individuals. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque impeccably illustrated the destructive nature of war. Remarque demonstrated the obliteration that follows war through the physical disfigurement of the soldiers and battlefield, through the mental scarring of soldiers young and old, and through the annihilation of all emotional bonds from before and after the war.

The intent of the book greatly affects the writing style. The goal is to give the reader a vivid image of what war is like, both behind the frontlines and on the battlefront itself. In order to give the best impression of war, Remarque uses a

​The realism, grisly detail, and irony Remarque injects his story of WWII in the trenches on the front lines from the German perspective somehow remains poetic because of his lyrical writing style. Nineteenth century society was not ready for Remarque’s new language of war. Until this novel society held the illusion of war as both glorious and romantic. The idea of such a thing traces back to the ancient Spartans carrying forth to 19th century Europe (Traver 2002). Before Chapter One, Remarque introduces the idea of the ensuing pages are the work of a new language about war. “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a 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 its shells, were destroyed by the war” (Remarque Preface).

Within Remarque’s excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front, begins with the soldiers’ description of how they felt during a bombardment. The soldiers describe the pain in their legs, how their hand trembled and how some soldiers had succumbed to madness. As the bombardment ends, the attack begins between the two different sides. The soldiers describe the men on another side as, “No one would believe that in this howling waste there could still be men; but steel helmets now appear on all sides of the trench, and fifty yards from us a machine-gun is already in position and barking,” (Remarque). Once the men are able to make out the other soldiers, they realize they are fighting the French. The French are said to have suffered greatly and before