Category: All Quiet on The Western Front

Stanislaus Katczinsky He is resourceful (can scrounge up sustenance in remote places), efficient, smart, and reliable, the boys listen/look up to him and trust his judgment. Im sure that if he were planted down in the middle of the desert, in half an hour he would have gathered together a supper of roast meat, dates,…

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr). During World War I many people joined the war to have money to provide for their family, not knowing what they were getting themselves into. The Lost Generation was what people called…

A comparative analysis of Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front (Western Front),1928 and John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath (Grapes), 1939 provokes the audience to reconsider their understanding of morality. Set during WWI, Remarque explores the demoralizing corruptions of war by mirroring his personal experiences at the Western Front. Steinbecks Grapes, set…

The senselessness of war affects even the best of people and turns them into people you wouldn’t be able to recognize. In the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the main character Paul Baumer gets sent to fight in the German war where they did not have the best fighting…

Joseph Sciuto once declared, Humanity, the earth with its streams and gardens, animals, and innocence are the real victims of war. The war affects all manners of life, especially the innocent ones, by corrupting and transmogrifying them into a dehumanized, soulless body with a complete lack of their original character. In his semi-autobiographical novel, All…

Erich Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front is a profound proclamation against war, highlighting its significance in the annihilating impacts on humans. The people of war gave hints of romanticized ideas of being in the front throughout the story for its benefits of obtaining rations of food, and that the conditions were … excellent(Remarque,…

In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Fronts, by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul, a German soldier, is drafted into the war and witnesses many traumatic instances of war. Throughout the book, Remarque demonstrates the mental trauma and emotional stress involved in warfare that Paul experiences to convey the significant impact of war on the…

At the beginning of the 20th century, European countries suffered a great loss of their population and wealth as well as the breakdown of the government and economy for years. The book All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque is a collection of tragic stories of the German soldiers who faced…

In the Myth of Sisyphus, Camus argues that one must imagine Sisyphus happy (123), who is condemned by the gods to repeatedly roll a boulder up and down a hill for eternity. Camus uses the Greek legend as a metaphor for the individuals continuous struggle against the absurdity of life. According to Camus, one must…

How does the extreme hardship and conflict of war affect an individual? War always takes a toll on the individual and leaves drastic changes to the human soul; this loss of innocence is a recurring motif and major theme throughout the novel. Erich Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest…