Category: All Quiet On The Western Front
This is a comparison between Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Timothy Findley’s The Wars on the theme of war/realities of war. GR 12 course essay. Hope this helps Thesis: War dehumanizes us, where we become like animals in order to survive, which leads to our destruction. The . . . Read more
The hardships of the first World War are present in the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque. He demonstrates the struggles and hardships that a typical soldier of that war must endure to stay alive or just keep his sanity. There are many factors that . . . Read more
A Disease or famine can be an awful thing. It can spread throughout towns and cities quickly, leaving thousands dead and the city in catastrophe. This spread of death and decay can be compared to the situation Paul and the other soldiers face in All Quiet On The Western Front, . . . Read more
Paul Baumer and his classmates had volunteered to enlist in the war or at least that what the story told. But that is not true, they were forced to volunteer. Their schoolmaster Kantorek had filled their heads up with views of nationalism which glorified the war. Some students were even . . . Read more
In what ways did Paul Baumer’s participation in the First World War change him as a person? Franz Kemmerich was Paul’s first classmate to die in the war. His death shattered Paul’s belief in authority. He admits to himself that he trusted and listened to them. They were supposed to . . . Read more
The destructiveness of war can be understood on several levels. Primarily, war exposes innocent lives to violence so unforgiving that it leaves physical and mental scarring to the victims for the rest of their existence. War destroys the bonds that soldiers have built with their family, friends and former lives . . . Read more
Have you ever wondered what the actual horrors of WWI are like? Erich Maria Remarque depicts these horrors through the eyes of a soldier named Paul Bäumer. Paul Bäumer, the narrator and protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front, is a character who develops extensively within the course of . . . Read more
The Battle Between Hope and Hopelessness While most war novels before All Quiet on the Western Front tended to idealize war, making it seem like an honourable and glorified adventure, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, discredits these conceptions by bringing the reader through a first-person . . . Read more
Erich Maria Remarque wrote “All Quiet On The Western Front”. The book focuses on the hardships of soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France in World War One in order to show that war was futile. The book is written in the first person and it is written from . . . Read more
All Quiet on the Western Front, by German writer Eriq Maria Remarque, explores the horrors of World War I through the eyes of a German soldier named Paul. Remarque transforms this tale of a young recruit who is thrown headfirst into a raging war into a lesson about life. Remarque . . . Read more
Originally banned and burned in Germany by the Nazi’s in 1933 (five years after it was first published) because of its antinationalist, pacifist, and dissident sentiment, All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque reached acclaim across the world as an intimate portrayal of life during the war . . . Read more
On the cover of my All Quiet on the Western Front is printed “the greatest war novel of all time.” In a time when it seems like every book bears on its cover either “New York Times Bestseller,” “Best-Selling Author” or “Book of the Year Award Finalist,” this one lives . . . Read more
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) served in World War I, where he received wounds five times in a battle. The searing images of trench warfare left indelible scars on Remarque, who then attempted to exorcise his demons through the writing of literature. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is Remarque’s most . . . Read more
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque’s protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat . . . Read more