All Quiet on The Western Front

What is the chance you will remain the same after going through something drastic? In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, Remarque argues how war is actually colored in romantic colors. When in reality it not like that at all. soldiers discover and experience the hardway what it's actually like to be in army during war. In All Quiet on the Western Front Paul will never be the same after the brutallity of the war…...

On July 22 in the year of 1898 Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück, German. Erich was an award winning author for the most popular of his books All Quiet on The Western Front. He starting writing at the age of 16, while he and his family were moving around. To save his mental state he took on writing, he moved a total of eleven times. Though his book wasn’t an award winning, the movie that was last created…...

It was a time when everything seemed to be smooth sailing, little did many know there would be a great war to happen. A war that was so bloody it ranks in worst wars of all-time. Being simply referred to as, “The Great War”. A war so great it didn’t just affect a few countries, but the entire world. The Great War came at a time when people had the illusion that Western Civilization, was on the verge of making…...

War presents many challenges that a person must overcome to be successful. Not everyone makes it out alive, but the ones who do will be changed forever. War often has drastic effects on an individual. Soldiers who go to war and live their long periods of time experience the fear of how close death is and they do whatever is necessary to survive. Erich Remarque’s use of isolation, effects of the war and the individual’s struggle against forces beyond his…...

Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has death and innocence that provides an in-depth view of soldiers and tensions that they may face during the Great War. This novel shows the growth of a young man going into one of the greatest wars of that time. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a controversial and a timeless story for all ages and a relatable story for all war veterans who are suffering from Post…...

“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us” (Pearce). Emotion is something that effects all of us, and the people around us. Paul Baumer, the protagonist in Remarque’s book, goes through an agonizing time in the trenches. As he lives through this age of hardship, he comes to many stong conclusions war, people, and life itself. As the war and the book continue, Paul begins to break down. From the strong young…...

What is below the surface of a classic war novel? The novel of a young soldier fighting in a war he doesn’t understand. Suffering from the miserable lifestyle forced upon him, only having a few friends to get him through this torture, doubting what he got himself into. Paul is always on the verge of death as is everyone, letting his body take over to get him through the war. The novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, written by…...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque describes the hardships of Paul Baumer, the narrator of the story, and his friends in World War I. Comradeship is a friendship between people who fight in the war. Paul Baumer and the soldiers form a close bond with each other to survive the war. Throughout All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque conveys the theme of comradeship through the actions of Paul Baumer and Stanislaus Katczinsky. Paul Baumer is one…...

All Quiet on the Western Front is a fictional novel written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1928 and it became an instant classic. He drew inspiration from his own life, being drafted into World War One and being wounded at the Battle of Flanders by British Artillery. Throughout the book Remarque uses vivid imagery and descriptive vocabulary to show the reader about the harsh grotesqueness of war and the seemingly inescapable amount of sorrow and problems created by this conflict.…...

A stalemate on the Western Front A stalemate is a situation where neither of the opposing parties can progress or do any further action. Often defence is stronger than attack on both sides and there is usually no way to break the deadlock. This is what happened when The Schlieffen Plan failed. Instead of the Germans racing out of France and back to Germany, they chose to "dig in". Trenches were dug over 700km, reaching from the sea to the…...

“Greater Love” is a poem about the painful memories experienced by Wilfred Owen in World War I. These memories seem to overshadow the memories he has for his love. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel whcich is also about World War I. The description of the war is similar in both works. Experiencing the terrors of war changed the outlook Owen has on life, and this poem describes his new outlook. The theme of “Greater Love” is…...

A study of the nature motif in All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front" "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a graphic depiction of the horrors of war. In the short note before Chapter One, Remarque lets the reader know exactly what themes he intends. War is a savage and gratuitous evil, war is unnatural, and war is responsible for the destruction of an entire generation. Remarque is very clear on the…...

"Paths of Glory" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" are two different stories about the first world war. They are comparable and various in their own ways. Lots of kids born in North America usually mature seeing war films from the America's viewpoint. This is different in Courses of Magnificence and All Peaceful on the Western Front. These films/novels display how European nations battled this war, whether it was great or bad. They display both sides of WWI, and…...

Winston Churchill always said, “You ask: what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, no matter how long and hard the world may be; for without victory, there is no survival. ” In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, victory is seen as the only option. The soldiers in the novel do whatever it takes like acting before thinking or ignoring…...

Title: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Author: ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Published: 1929 SUBJECT: This book is written by a German veteran of World War I, who describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the frontlines. OPINION: I think this book tells a tale of honor and courage, two of the three core values of the Marine Corps. The…...

It has been once said that, “all literature shows us the power of emotion. It is emotion, not reason, that motivates character in literature” this quote can be interpreted to mean that all books show us the power of feeling. It is feeling not reasoning that drives characters in it literatures. To fulfill whatever they want in the story. Feelings drive characters to succeed in every possible scenario. The validity of this interpretation can be seen as true by examining…...

In All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrique Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer as he fights through World War I and discovers the trials of being a soldier. As they survive through the war with each other, Paul and the other soldiers began to understand certain realities of life. Going into the battlefield teenagers, the soldiers come out as old men, burdened with their experiences. The war, meant to glorify Germany and turn its men into heroes,…...

Throughout the history of American literature, stories of the white knight saving the damsel in distress and riding off into the sunset to live happily ever after have plagued our shelves for centuries. The birth of the modern tragedy came in the late 19th century and early 20th century with novels such as Red badge of Courage, and All Quiet on the Western Front. They show the realism of war and the harass tragedy that comes with it. Ernest Hemingway…...

Power. The word itself instigates a conundrum of fear and attraction. The attraction for it, the attraction for more, and the attraction for seeking the absolute highest boundary of it. Those who thirst for it see visions of wealth, vast expansions territory, and above all, the ability to do whatever one wants whenever he wants. And those who thirst for it will seek it through whatever means necessary, whether it be a fistfight or a war. Necessity is the basic…...

"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know no thing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow...." said by Paul Baumer during his time at war in All Quiet on the Western Front. This quote represents how the war changed Paul's view and attitude toward life. Paul, a once hopeful, sensitive boy, enlisted into the war right out of school, faced traumatizing experiences that changed him into a lonely…...

The earth, as in the soil beneath our feet, is considered approved every day, but never by a soldier on the front lines. Erich Maria Remarque explains this through his character Paul Bäumer in the excerpt of his unique All Quiet on the Western Front. Paul is discussing the results that war on the front can leave with a soldier, the hopelessness, impulse of an animal, and gratitude for things as easy as the earth that we walk on. While…...