Dehumanisation Of Men

To someone just picking up this book, this scene would simply look like some poor soldiers developing a temporary and innocent coping mechanism to deal with Death as they face him head on. But

People both today and back then have been traumatized by war’s brutal combat, fallen victim to cruel soldiers, and had war cause sorrow and grief to them. Through characters seeing death, characters that are soldiers, and characters that are not in combat, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See demonstrates that war affects individuals negatively, even if they are extremely

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial, I believe we are lost” (Remarque 123). World War I is a tragic event that occurred in 1914 to 1918. Paul Baumer and the rest of the soldiers in the novel of “All Quiet in the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque are lost; they are broken from the fist World War, they don’t know anything aside from War, and they have lost their innocence during the years of maturation. When the young men heard about the War, they were excited, and full of life, they thought they were going on an adventure.

It’s no surprise that soldiers will more-than-likely never come home the same. Those who have not served do not often think of the torment and negative consequences that the soldiers who make it out of war face. Erich Remarque was someone who was able to take the torment that he faced after his experience in World War I and shed light on the brutality of war. Remarque was able to illustrate the psychological problems that was experienced by men in battle with his best-selling novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Hunt). The symbolism used in the classic anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front is significant not only for showing citizens the negative attributes of war, but also the mental, physical, and emotional impact that the vicious war had on the soldiers.

There is no doubt that when war occurs, every single human being is affected by it even if it is just a little. In the novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque, a group of teenage men, who also appear to by classmates, are in the German army of World War I because they have chosen to leave their adolescence at home and school for grown up work at the army. Throughout this fictional novel, they face many challenges that result in them not seeing each other ever again because of death. War affects individuals by leaving behind necessities such as education or jobs, not being able to watch over others such as their health, and injuries that soldiers receive while they are at war.

The text, ‘The Things They Carried', is an excellent example which reveals how individuals are changed for the worse through their first hand experience of war. Following the lives of the men both during and after the war in a series of short stories, the impact of the war is accurately portrayed, and provides a rare insight into the guilt stricken minds of soldiers. ‘The Things They Carried' shows the impact of the war in its many forms: the suicide of an ex-soldier upon his return home; the lessening sanity of a medic as the constant death surrounds him; the trauma and guilt of all the soldiers after seeing their friends die, and feeling as if they could have saved them; and the deaths of the soldiers, the most negative impact a war

Since the beginning of mankind, war and the horrors that come with it have had devastating effects on both the minds and the bodies of human beings. Mentally, war drains soldiers of their ability to think properly. During a battle, soldiers witness bloody battles which frequently result in demise. Day after day of witnessing deceased fall to the ground, a soldier can do nothing but think about blood, gore, and his or her fallen comrades. Additionally, a war can be physically taxing on whomever takes part in it. Dodging or being hit by fists, swords, or bullets will inevitably cause pain and may disable somebody for the rest of their life. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque demonstrates through characterization, imagery,

While I read this book, I felt scared, sad, and happy at times. Mix of emotions because this book isn’t easy to swallow, those soldiers were going through rough times. Some of these soldiers lost hope in life, a lot of them cried, and suffered. My favorite passage was “The Artillery at Hazel Grove” because it offered them hope in winning due to powerful equipment.

Even though soldiers are able to distract themselves from the horrors that they witness on the front, war psychologically damages them and creates the “lost generation”. The young men find it increasingly difficult to think and act with the mindset of a civilian. In war, the men only experience despair, death, and fear, so their mind is enveloped by negative thoughts that

Almost as a stenographer reading back to someone in a courtroom. O’ Brien places himself simply at the scene, taking note of everything, witnessing everything, with a straight face. Through his unmoved diction such as “He fell hard,” noticing that blood came up like water “from a pump,” (62). This way of forming sentences in reactions to what he’s seeing reminds readers of what they do when they watch a video of something horrible happening that doesn’t affect them first hand. A tone of feeling bad, but not affected personally. Maybe more bothered blood than what had actually happened. This was his brother, and the way he describes the events is utterly scary to the readers because the lack of emotion. O’Brien did this to get his point across. To describe a way soldiers remember stories such as these. As just a physical feature of the scene. There was nothing his platoon felt they could do except “ Wait for the dustoff,” (63). In this line that he writes, he reveals the different levels of relief felt in war and in life. First the relief that Lee felt. Although cruel, he was relieved of his duty in the war and in life, and this is a major theme of life. Once we pass, we face moments of only peace and are relieved of all the problems that come with the world. He reveals a second level of relief that contradicts the first one. Underlying relief of the fellow soldier that it wasn’t their turn to finalize their life story. Through his eventful tone he reveals the last level of relief. The one felt in this scenario by Dave, but one he claims that readers have felt before. The relief of a duty. Lee passed on the way to the medics so Dave never had to decide which promise he would live up to; The decision was made for him, and the factual diction of the chapter exemplifies this because of the way O'Brien simply list facts.

The horrors of war were depicted by the constant threats to the characters lives, the brutal conditions of the bad weather, hunger and combat. Soldiers had to battle the enemy along with nature. Soldiers would become stressed, paranoid and start losing their personalities. As Captain Miller says, “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.” This quote shows the mental toll on these soldiers.

The wartime lives of the soldiers who fought in the war were in a state of mind of mixed feelings. Happiness and devastating are two adjectives that can describe the soldier’s feelings in the war because at one second they can be happy that they succeeded on a mission, but on the other hand, it can be very devastating because one of their own soldiers could have been killed during the war. Aside from physical danger losing one of your own soldiers or having your family worry about you every day and night are some negatives and unpleasant parts about fighting in a war. For example, soldiers loved ones worried each day, and hoped that they would not get a knock on their door by someone who was going to tell them that their fathers, husbands, sons, or brothers have died in the war.

Walking Man 2 is very simplistic in its use of Visual Elements and this simplicity is what makes it so abstract. There were no distinct features on the face and no distinct features such as fingers or toes. Indistinguishable facial features can sometimes give off the impression of dehumanism. I also notice that Giacometti makes distinct lines with the limbs and body of the sculpture. I noticed that the texture was rough and bumpy and I wanted to touch it because it reminded me of gravel.  He uses no vibrant colors whatsoever. The statue is a ominous gray and that's to keep it in line with the theme of depression and anxiety. There's a sense of not having hope and any sort of vibrant color would take away from that. He wants us to feel the helplessness

Factory workers are being produced today, although the age of factories has long passed. Students are dehumanized from their first graded assignment, their first report card, the first time they step into school until they graduate. At that point, they are completely stripped of critical thinking and creativity and see learning only as memorization for a test. There seems to be no meaning beyond the face value of what teachers say and possibly less. All that is needed is to memorize word for word what the teacher says. They don’t perceive “what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance of “capital” in the affirmation “the capital of Pará is Belem,” that is, what Belem means for Pará and what Pará means for Brazil” (240). Freire introduces the banking system as the cause of dehumanization, but it is not the system in general that causes it. It is the use of grading. They are used to measure the value and intelligence of students, so this is all students focus on. They only do what they need to receive the highest marks. However, this means the students don’t have time to truly understand their material or realize that they don’t have to spend that much time with the material. After all, the purpose of the banking system is to just fill students with information.

Dehumanization is easily explained through sexism. Sexism is quite common in places like India, Pakistan and Somalia. There are millions of girls who have lack proper education. There are around 774 million girls in the world who did not complete primary school. In India, for example, girls who belong from a rural area get married during their teenage years to a much older man. It is a common belief in these areas that such a girl must not be given any education; she is meant to give birth to a son who will eventually put food on the table. The job of this girl is to give birth to a baby. She is, put simply, a baby factory. Later on, the girl becomes a housewife and is barred from her education further. Plato believed that women must be given the same social roles as men in his ideal world. His ideas were based upon the view that women and men have the same nature in respect to acting as guardians of the state, except that one is weaker while the other is stronger. Plato did not believe that there were any such differences between males and females, but stated that the relative differences - which he had previously made out to be equal - would prevent women being in any way equal to men. He points out, for example, that women have an inferior virtue to that of men, and that it is necessary for women to listen to different music. Music was inspirational for men, especially in battle, yet it was more likely for women to listen to emotional music because they were emotionally