Similarities Between War And Hell In All Quiet On The Western Front

In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.

Dean Hughes: “War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.” War is a great wicked that comes down upon the lives of the soldiers. We all look at the war in general and miss to see who is destroying their lives for the cause. War powers destruction and great evil and when these young and clueless men come into it they miss to see the big picture. In the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque provides an inside look to show exactly what a toll the war puts on the warriors. Throughout the whole novel the author puts into extreme detail the physical and mental agony on the soldiers and land. Remarque gives an inside look to what the soldiers are

The filmmakers of “All Quiet on the Western Front” (both the 1930 version along with the 2022 version) portray a negative feeling about the effects of war on the soldiers that fought for their countries. In the “AQWF - Forgive Me, Comrade (1930) Clip”, at the beginning of the clip, Paul’s angry with himself, and in the background, we can hear gunfire adding onto the fact that he is angry. When Paul looks back at the dead French soldier, Paul talks to the French soldier, as if he was alive. When looking at the clip's visual techniques, the dead French soldier has a very heavy shadow to indicate that the man is dead. while Paul had light on his face showing he is alive, and is feeling emotions because of his actions.

In All Quiet on the Western Front, the author paints a realistic and gruesome tale of war. Many people believe that war is a glorious event. The author succeeds to show how gruesome and devastating war actually is. In many books, movies, and TV shows, war is described as glorious and good. War is not glorious or good from the beginning of time people have been at war and from that people have died. War is shown as the thing that gets the girl or the thing that makes people see you as a king and that people come back untouched. That is the false way the Hollywood and others have butchered the reality of war.

A scene in this book that shows both the protagonist and antagonist sides is when John who is Jethro’s brother and a solider for the Union; Beats up Bill who is a soldier for the Confederate. In this scene, John is a protagonist and Bill is an antagonist. The Confederate soldiers represented by Bill are the enemy; they are the “bad guys”. The Confederate soldiers are opponents to the Union. The Union soldiers represented by John are the protagonist, even though he did something morally wrong he did it for the right reason. Some people might have even seen him as showing

An ancient Chinese proverb states “One cannot know peace without knowing war” (Herzberg). In a time where all that plagues many nations was war, it was inevitable that a time of peace needed to follow or at least the sober idea of it. The proverb was created to validate wars and later turned into a way to approach life’s troubles. Being within an individual or on a global scale, war and peace are connected. They exist coherently but never together; they are the cause and effects of each other. One follows the other yet both are needed in order to understand the other one. This relationship between war and peace is developed in the Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. While the first major world war is the background

War entails rugged terrain, hostility that may lead to death, and forever friendships that affect the overall state of the men fighting. Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, exemplifies the horrific nature of war through description of what the troops endure while in combat. The unpredictable nature of war, represented by the cage-like restrictions of front, conveys that the soldiers fear what the future holds. As the front appears as a “cage in which [they] must await fearfully whatever may happen”, the men have to prepare for what the future may bring (Remarque 101). With metaphorical language, Remarque accurately portrays the front as a place full of anticipation, waiting for whatever may come ahead.

World War I was an extremely violent and traumatic time for soldiers on the fronts of the war, but even though it was a dramatic time for these men the memoirs from the war was varied on the western front within the German ranks. Two well known books written by the German men were Storm of Steel, 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

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war has an idealistic and romantic character.  The story centers on Paul Baümer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm.  In the course of war, though, he is consumed by it and in the end is "weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope"  (Remarque page #).

Has there really ever been a time in your life when everything has been all quiet? No matter who you are, there is always something on your mind, or something that you have to deal with. There is really only one way to achieve absolute quiet, and that is by death. War unfortunately gives millions of people just that. All Quiet on the Western Front is a book that tells a story of young men and their journey throughout WW1 from the German perspective. Three main points of war that will be mentioned in this paper are betrayal, horror, and friendship.

World War I was a deadly and difficult situation for all the soldiers who were impacted by it. These novels tell the story of German soldiers and their stories from this treacherous war but from different points of view. The two controversial novels, Storm of Steel, written by Ernest Junger, and All Quiet on the Western Front, written by, Erich Maria Remarsque were very widely talked about during their time and it has many differences and many similarities between them. They are both well known and were written on the same frontier; however, they were different in certain ways.

The Brutality of World War I During World War I the men who went into the war expecting glory did not get what they thought. The war was horrendous for nearly all of them, the brutality of this war would leave some men “shell shocked”(PTSD). These men were appalled by the new technologies of war, the stalemate that came late in the war, which left them with waiting for the next attack, and the variety of diseases spread throughout the trenches would leave these men traumatized for years to come, if they survived the war.

1. Alien ships landed on Earth. The aliens who are more commonly known as the zhree don’t do anything for the first few weeks. Then, they announced that they were they were taking over the planet and that is was under their “jurisdiction and protection.” Humankind was furious and they didn’t give into the situation at hand. For thirty years there was a large war, and although the humans fought well, they faltered. This is important because the aliens have taken over the Earth and caused a lot of problems.

WWII is said to be the last total war of the modern era and there is clear evidence as to why. Many countries, including the United States, were solely focused on winning the war. Roughly 17 million new jobs became available to civilians in the United States to help the war effort, from ordinary factories changing their production to start producing military vehicles to making ammunition. Every country involved in WWII had their resources going directly toward the war efforts. Civilians were also targeted on both sides to obtain power in the war, leading to civilian casualties ranging from 50 to 55 million. There were no restrictions on what weapons could be used or who/what could be targeted. Both the Axis powers and the Allied powers did what they deemed necessary to win the war.

In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, human nature is the only abstract periphery between belligerent barbarism and justifiable violence. Through the insipid bombardments that rained shells over the Germans’ heads and noxious implementation of mustard gas, Remarque dexterously misleads the reader into believing that he fights in an apathetic war where all remnants of human nature and identity have been destroyed with the introduction of trench warfare. Through Paul Baumer’s eyes, Remarque identifies war as an artificial construct devoid of human identity and any subsequent emotions until the first bombardment, the first glimpse Baumer has of the unfettered abominations of war. After the shrieking of artillery shells ceased, it was replaced by the numbing scream of injured horses. Paul described this abhorrent noise as “the moaning of the world…, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning” (Remarque 62), the first emotionally provocative scene in the novel. As if the description of the noise did not suffice to pique the reader, Remarque continues, “The belly of one is ripped open, the guts trail out. He becomes tangled in them and falls…” (Remarque 63). At this instant, Remarque sheds the obscure layer of superficiality and reveals the tatters of human nature and identity still exist even in most anguish conditions of comeradeship, sympathy, contrition, and selflessness.