WW1: All Quiet On The Western Front

What’s the difference between friendship and Comradeship. Friendship is a friendly relation of intimacy. Comradeship is a person who shares in ones activities, occupations, etc. In the book, you see that the boys have a stronger relation bond than friendship. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character, Paul Bäumer, there is one positive aspect of the war, the strong bonds between his comrades. Through all the pictures of death and humanity, Remarque shows that love and comradeship enables the men to survive in such a inhuman and deadly environment.

In the story “All Quiet on the Westerfront” a guy named Paul goes through many tragedies, such as witnessing death and also killing someone. In an interview with a guy named William Lake, he talks about his stories about how he went through World War 1 and the tragedies he had witnessed. Also in the readings they mention the things they did in war, whether it's Paul helping out the recruits to protect themselves from the danger of the war or if it's William being a messenger having to run across the battlefield. In the book “All Quiet on the Westerfront” Paul goes through World War 1 and goes through people dying everywhere and having to kill to survive, but at the end of chapter 6 Paul has to help out these new recruits because they don’t

At the beginning of World War I, Germany was at war on two fronts with the Western allies and Russia to the east. The war took place in France, where both sides came to a standstill and began to dig trenches, in what would later become known as trench war. On Germany’s side, Paul Baumer, and his fellow soldiers’ part of the second company, were fighting for a good two weeks without food or water during the fight. Then, after they had been fighting for two weeks straight, they were finally relieved of duty for a short period of time. The company consisted of 150 men before they went to battle, then after two weeks of fighting the company only had 80 men including Paul and his men. When they were relieved of

This essay will consider the different effects created by Erich Maria Remarque in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. As a writer, Remarque unknowingly left his novel open to readers with completely different perspectives, and to various forms of criticism. This undoubtedly meant that every single reader had been affected by the novel in many different ways which unfortunately for Remarque may have been an effect that he never intended. This essay is divided into 5 main sections. Firstly it will address any of the intentions Remarque could have possibly wanted to propose through his novel, and closely examine the purposes and motives behind All quiet on the Western Front. It will then go on to analyse Remarque’s use of language in various extracts of the novel. Then the content is analysed in two parts; the third part is a brief insight into one of the key themes of the novel, and the fourth part highlights the effects Remarque causes. Finally, some conclusions will be drawn as to whether or Remarque may have intended to achieve a certain effect in his novel, and as to whether or not I personally agree with the comment that through his shaping of language and content, Remarque may have achieved an effect he might not have intended.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an eye opening story of a teenager and his experiences in the war. Paul Bäumer is only nineteen when he is persuaded by his high school teacher, Kantorek, to participate in World War I. Paul went into the war expecting to be surrounded by nationalism and pride. After he arrived, he realized that he was very wrong. He witnesses many of the soldiers in his company die in front of his own eyes. Paul realizes that war changes a person and takes over their life. By the end of the book, Paul is the only surviver out of his friends. Paul dies before the end of the war.

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.

As scientific innovations and developments push the frontier of our technological capabilities, the threat of using them for evil is an all too present reality. While at the height of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy said, "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.". In his groundbreaking book, All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich M. Remarque seeks to spread this pacifistic message and anti-war sentiment, after the devastation brought by the First World War (Remarque 1982). As the biggest, most technological advanced and deadliest war of its time, this new breed of warfare has left ripples all across the fabric of the global society (Rowley 2003). Remarque wanted to use this book to recreate the horrors of this war in a fictional, yet ghastly tale. In his own words, he wishes All Quiet On The Western Front "to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure..." (Remarque 1982). Having served personally on the German front lines during the First World War, Remarque translates this firsthand experience of the war into this book (Gale 2003). He wanted to pay homage to his fallen comrades of his generation, saying "It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who were destroyed by the war" (Remarque 1982). Remarque weaves a tale that gives a new, horrifying, and shocking account of the trauma that soldiers face on a daily basis while on the front (Gale 2003). He uses this, and his own experiences from, and after, fighting in

It was a normal day at the house. My wife and I were listening to the radio eating dinner when we heard that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria had been assassinated. A war was called for. Russia, France, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States were going to be fighting against Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. The station called for all young men to come and serve in the war. So I went to the nearest recruiting station and they asked for my name, blood type, and address. They told me that I had the job and I was cast into the U.S. Marine Corps.

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque, is a classic anti-war novel about the personal struggles and experiences encountered by a group of young German soldiers as they fight to survive the horrors of World War One. Remarque demonstrates, through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier, how the war destroyed an entire generation of men by making them incapable of reintegrating into society because they could no longer relate to older generations, only to fellow soldiers.

The rise of World War I caused millions of casualties and was yet another demonstration of how supposedly civilized nations could be led into a chaotic war of power over lands and people. Since the beginning of civilization, war has been the way of the world. However, with major advances in technology, this idea of war has since become mechanized and deadlier. There is no doubt that the powerful men who lead wars often don’t care to think of nitty gritty of war, to them, rather, it’s a matter of power and legacy. In Remarque’s novel, the particular story of Paul and his comrades is a perfect example of how a generation can be used and manipulated to drive the agenda of power- hungry men. Through Remarque’s own personal experience and unparalleled writing ability, this novel presents many first-hand experiences into the living conditions of soldiers and peoples.

1. Paul Baumer and his friends, as German soldiers in World War I, collectively fight any who oppose the German army. However, Corporal Himmelstoss is an enemy whose transgressions are taken far more personally by Paul and his friends. Himmelstoss often torments Paul and his comrades for the sake of doing so, as he is power-driven and tries to exert control over others whenever he can. It is never stated that the soldiers hate or even dislike the enemies that they fight daily on the battlefield; yet they disfavor Himmelstoss openly. In addition, they all begin to harbor distaste for their former teacher, Kantorek, for encouraging them to join the army. All of the men also struggle against the knowledge that

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is story of the fictional character Paul Baumer and his troop Troop 9 as they battle in World War I on the Western Front for Germany. This novel differs from most war novels in that it does not portray the men as valiant soldiers protecting their country. The way that the story is told strips away the romanticized view warfare and portrays the raw emotions that come with being on the front lines of a battle. As both Paul Baumer’s life and the battle progress, Paul’s values, along with those of the other soldiers, evolve until they culminate in Baumer’s own passing.

Mahatma Gandhi, a renowned political and spiritual leader, once said that, “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.” Presume you see two men in a heated argument and one of them is about to attack the other, you take a rock and throw it at him and knock him out. On one hand it is a good thing that you prevented the attack but on the other hand you used violence yourself, and there is no doubt that you would not hesitate to use it again. The good that came from the violence that you used lasted for a short time, but the punishment that you get for doing this lasts for a long time. Imperialism of rivalries and nationalism were two of the main reasons that most

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow”(263). In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer never lived the life he wanted. Before he volunteered he had just begun to “love life and the world”(88). But when he was in the war he and his comrades “had to shoot it to pieces”(88). The war changed his perspective. Paul wrote how after fighting he no longer wanted to take the world by storm, and how he was no longer a youth. In the most fundamental sense simply not being with his friends and family back home may have caused the most separation. Paul feels as though the people back home have developed their separate world

There is not as much symbolism shown throughout the text “All quiet on the western front” to show the effects of war too. However, Kermerich’s boots provide a symbol for the certain attitude a soldier would require – detaching their emotions only to act as an emotionless object that follows orders to reduce the effects of war inflicted on the soldiers. Each Solider (including Kemmerich) who took them from dead air pilot) dies when owning these boots. Therefore, it could be argued that the boots are worth more to people than a human life – Aslan argues that this represents the shallowness of society at the time of World War One. The audience is able to see how characters can become selfish for their own survival.