Themes In Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace

War is by no means simple. It is not just a battle between men or nations, as there are wars rooted within ourselves. War to many is unknown and painful, showing the dark side of humanity, and to others it is a sign of glory and conquest. Ernest Hemingway shows his view of the realities of war in “Soldier’s Home” by the experiences pinned onto Harold Krebs, a WWI veteran. Krebs' loss of interest and detachment to post-war society alludes that an unattainable reality to fit back into everyday life was placed on veterans by civilians who had romanticized views of war. This marks the need for elaborated war stories to end in order for veterans to be deservingly accepted back into society.

People are colliding into battles continuously around the globe. It's not always a physical brawl between two armed forces but it also occur mentally and emotionally. On page 139 of A Separate Peace, a quote was mentioned by Gene, "...because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and theirs special stupidities but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart..." This quote can relate to the novel, a personal experience and another literary work.

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front written by Eric Remarque is a powerful anti-war novel. It is about a young man of nineteen who fights in the German army at the western front. He is accompanied by his friends and soon realise that war isn’t glorious or honourable, and they live in constant terror. Throughout the novel Remarque describes the physical and psychological horrors of war as well as how they have become the lost generation and the question of who is the enemy. He includes many writing techniques to describe each topic, especially the physical horrors of war.

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

World War was often known as the war to end all wars. This was the nickname given to this conflict due to ferocity and enormous casualties. The damage done during the time period left a dent in society as it harmed millions psychologically, emotionally and physically. This dent resulted in a post-war era filled with numerous literary pieces expressing the toll of war on a person. A perfect example is the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, and the poem, “Piano after War” where they convey philosophical ideas resulting from brutal conflict. Despite Remarque’s novel and Brook’s poem having similar themes, the authors differ in the way they reveal these themes.

1.) How should war be shown in novels- as the horrible, death bringer that war is or as an act of heroism? (pg. 204-206)

In both texts, it is important to understand the nature of society prior to the war in 1914 and the importance of raising “War Fever.” War fever and propaganda are used to inspire a nation to admire the idea of war in 1914 and World War One. In these texts we see the romanticizing of warfare and the creation of a specific type of pro-war attitude that is especially stark in “The Storm of Steel”. Essentially, these characteristics are obvious in

In the story’s uncensored introduction, Tolstoy broke away from building the setting and instead wrote that “A strange thought often used to occur to me” (Tolstoy 60 [1986]) before asking readers why war is not fought by just one soldier from each respective side, because “what difference is there between one Russian fighting one allied representative, and eighty thousand Russians fighting eighty thousand allied representatives?” To many, this idea may seem naive because it simplifies the messy intersections, political thrusts, and personal factors which constitute a battle, but it is intentionally overstated and functions as a hyperbole that reflects war’s inherent senselessness. Furthermore, Tolstoy goes on to subtly

Almost 5000 years ago the first recorded war between the Sumerians and the Elamites took place. Ever since then there has been countless wars and an estimated 500 million deaths, but the effects are way greater than these deaths. Self-preservation, reproduction, and greed are the three natural human instincts that war can enhance, or destroy. All Quiet in the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, shows the effects and transformation it has on young soldiers at war. From the beginning to the end of the novel the characters undergo life changing experiences that will have negative impacts on them indefinitely.

In the following paragraph(s) written during Civics Monday August 15, 2016 is going to explain the following questions needed to start the first segment of our Grit Project Proposal. The questions needed to be answered are; The Specific Book I chose for the project, The reasoning for choosing my book for the project,and Did I know anything about the book before I chose it? To follow up on the first question that was asked of me; The specific book I chose for my proposal was War and Peace written by Leo Tolstoy. My reason for choosing this book is because of the structure and the way the book is written especially with some terminology we now use in the 21st century. Yet it still gives the various types of old literature structure in the book

Tolstoy’s shows in this novel what can happen when you live life by your own rules and what can happen when you live by societies rules such as Ivan Ilyich. He shows that both choices come with major consequences. In this story Ivan Ilyich had two brothers one older and one younger. The older

Tolstoy started writing letters and notes to his family once he joined the military. This writing eventually turned into a hobby and then a career. Tolstoy wrote lots of literary works, most notable of which are, in no particular order, War

As you have read war is a very different type of world everything is turned around and it confuses people. The author of the book The Things They Carried and the writer of the quote "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present, where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me, where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them, where bodies ruptured and burned and stand, where the evil thing trying to kill you could look disconnecting human and where except in your imagination it was impossible to be heroic." relates to each of his stories. Wrote about war so people could have a better understanding of

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

We will begin with an analysation of his family situation. Praskovya, his wife, had been a love constructed from the start of an economic and sociological expectation rather than that of a true courtship. The happiness therefore of the union was derived solely of a necessity to fulfill a desire on the part of others for a “success” of sorts, surely her desire as well. “Ivan Ilyich could have counted on a more illustrious match, but even this one was quite good. He had his salary, and her income, he hoped, would bring in an equal amount. (Tolstoy, 56)” Tolstoy goes on to make several remarks on the benevolent nature of the relationship between he and his wife. The arrival of his children creates no great marker in his life, and proves to be little more than a factor in his ever-lengthening retreat into his life of solitude and work.