Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front in my opinion is a great example of how human beings are destroyed by war. Not only are the bodies of young men torn asunder in horrific and never before seen ways of the First World War, but it also seems that many of the young men […]
All Quiet on the Western Front talks about many aspects of war that would otherwise not have been mentioned. One of the most important yet under-rated is the aspect of Trust. Let’s start at the beginning. The First World War is confusing, everyone is fighting, but they do not have a solid goal they are […]
All Quiet on the Western Front is a wonderfully depressing book that has many great themes, though the theme I found most tragic was the sense of hopelessness felt during the war, and I’m sure even after, especially in Germany-where the book takes place. All the way through the novel, the soldiers feel some sort […]
I grew up watching war movies: my dad owned the World War 2 VHS’s and watched them all the time, as well as watching war movies such as Jarhead, Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker, and many more. But I still couldn’t imagine being on the front line. All Quiet on the Western Front drags you in […]
A main theme in Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front is a sense of loss. When we think about war, our minds jump to death, dying, the physical loss of a life. While this loss is prevalent in the novel, Remarque displays the other losses that were not as easily seen by those […]
Youth and vitality have vanished, the young men have lost themselves to war and understand that at a young age they have begun to change, the act of dehumanizing with the enemy and even among comrade’s is the way to stay alive. As Paul Baumer spends more time at the front line he begins to […]
Where to start, I want to truly write just a blog. With a work of literature I believe it’s possible to just discuss the way the text made you feel and the thoughts that came to your mind. So I want to pretend, for just a second, that class problems can be separated from race, […]
Oh so many young souls went or were sent to gloriously serve. Among them, how many had any idea of lay ahead? Of those so many young souls, millions of them experienced indescribable horrors that would never be fully cleansed. The survivors returned to homelands and loved ones with whom they could no longer relate. […]
All Quiet On The Western Front did an excellent job of portraying the social life of the German soldier during World War I. Starting from the unification of Germany in 1871, service in the Kaiser’s military was a sign of becoming a man and a guarantee of being in the upper class of society. This […]
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque offers the reader a depressing and truthful insight of what soldiers experienced during World War I. No matter who starts a war, both side’s soldiers suffer the consequences of the decisions of command. Soldiers follow orders and simply defend themselves in an environment where death […]
The theme from the novel that was most striking to me was that only those with shared experiences can connect to each other. Time and again others try to make this connection such as the Red Cross nurse or the head-master. These people think that just because they lived during war times they can commiserate […]
After reading All is Quiet on the Western Front, I felt that the soldiers that were involved in World War I experienced adversities that were worse than death. Many of the soldiers didn’t know what they were even fighting for. They simply did what the leaders told them to do. They had more of a sense that […]
The area between the two opposing trench lines is often referred to as no man’s land due to the massive amount of death that took place there during battles. On a closer look at WWI and the experiences of front line soldiers we may be able to extend the no man’s land to include the […]
Almost all of the generations of people who have inhabited this Earth have felt some effects of war. Ours is certainly no different, and it has come to the point where it is expected. This is really a crazy idea, being that war actually makes no sense. In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, […]
“All Quiet on the Western Front” really describes how war affects the soldiers. They are left hopeless and often feeling out of place in the world. In one scene of the book, Paul and a couple of the other soldiers are sitting around talking about what they are going to do after the war. For […]
“Feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peacetime, would be out of place here” – 1 The quote above taken directly from All Quiet on the Western Front paints a profound sense of what being a solider was like in the first World War in the eyes of the losing Germans at the war-front in […]
During our reading of All Quiet of the Western Front, we see the side of the losing Germans. Though out our school history we only learn of the winner’s side, thus the say “the winners write the history.” Then what have we learned about the enemy? Only he is the enemy in time of war […]
According to Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front”, we a see a sense of what World War 1 was all about in Europe and that it was really something we don’t learn about particularly unless it is from a U.S standpoint. As I was reading the book, you could really feel for all of […]
England had an empire. The French had their colonies too. Germany had little in comparison. So, the Kaiser wanted land. So they sent boys and young men to fight in cities like this: When they were finished fighting, the cities looked like this: This is the same […]
All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best war books of all time. Erich Maria Remarque wrote it in the 1920’s. The story is fiction but it was written based on what Erich went through while he was on the front lines in World War I. The book mentions how the individual […]
The book “All quiet on the Western Front” was an interesting book to begin with because of the fact that you get a perspective of someone who was fighting in the war, verses a historian telling us about the war. Paul who is the main character in this novel is joining the army for the […]
While reading, “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, I get the sense of sympathy that the character Paul Baumer feels throughout the book. In situations he feels sympathy for the new recruits coming the front lines of battle, sympathy for the for those he left at home, sympathy for the Russians […]
After Tuesday’s class discussion and going back through the book to find some quotes that fit my point about soldiers themselves being dehumanized as well as their enemies as a way to cope, I thought of something else. After all, making your enemy out to be something less than human and worth murdering is nothing […]
In Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front, he often refers to a soldier’s animal instincts. Remarque suggests that the only way for a soldier to survive is to act more like an animal than a man. Survival is the only instinct that a soldier should have, so he must rely solely on that. Remarque writes, “By […]
“There is no escape anywhere. By the light of the shells I try to get a view of the fields. The are a surging sea, daggers of flame from the explosions leap up like fountains. It is impossible for anyone to break through it” 1. This quote from the novel, All Quiet on the Western […]
I find it very interesting how initially in the story Remarque speaks of how the uniform changes a man. I find some of this to be true but there seems to become a point where this is no longer possible. These “men” sent to battle were barely twenty years old. They were young enough that […]
Life as a solider is more difficult to relate to. War has many harmful aspects that will affect a young man’s life. In World War I, new warfare such as poison gas, trenches, machine guns, and many more became main factors in the war. With this war many young Germans died. In the novel, “All Quiet On The Western Front” talks about the […]