All Quiet On The Western Front And Piano After War

Remarque claims that,“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war” (Remarque). All Quiet on the Western Front is considered one of the greatest war books of all time. In the novel, Erich Maria Remarque cleverly weaves political and social issues with symbolism, imagery, and metaphors to help illustrate his arguments.

In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.

Both poems show the effects war has on witnesses even when their time in the conflict is deemed to be over. The extreme nature of war and the equally strong emotions and trauma that stick with survivors are conveyed in both of these

The defining characteristics of WW1 were its sickening violence and its immense death toll so, understandably, many pieces of war literature aim to present the horrors of war in order to unflinchingly reveal the true experiences of the soldiers. However, Journey’s End by R.C Sherriff and A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry also focus on the emotional aspect of war and the relationships it created and destroyed. The war forced people of every background to rely on and interact with each other while it also wrenched soldiers away from their families, introducing unique tensions between people that would not have existed otherwise. However, it is debatable which form, Sherriff’s play or Barry’s novel, is most effective in presenting these relationships.

Ever since the beginning of World War I, writers have influenced how readers perceive war through their writing. Literature helps us better understand the world around us. When an author can persuade readers successfully, readers ultimately agree with him. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque paints vivid pictures, catches readers off guard with the unexpected aspects of war, and creates emphasis on the harsh reality of war. This lets readers know what war is like without ever having to experience it.

War is always the worst tragedy of mankind in the world. We, as human beings, were experienced two most dolorous wars that were ever happened in our history: World War I and World War II. A young generation actually does not know how much hardship the predecessors, who joined and passed through the wars, undergo. We were taught about just how many people died in the wars, how much damage two participations in the wars suffered or just the general information about the wars. We absolutely do not know about the details, and that’s why we also do not know what the grief-stricken feeling of people joining in the wars really is. But we can somewhat understand that feeling through war novels, which describe the truthfulness of the soldiers’ lives, thoughts, feelings and experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, which takes World War I as background, is the great war novel which talks about the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the hopeless of these soldiers about the “future” – the time the war would have ended.

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war has an idealistic and romantic character.  The story centers on Paul Baümer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm.  In the course of war, though, he is consumed by it and in the end is "weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope"  (Remarque page #).

On average, nearly nine-hundred Frenchmen and one thousand and three hundred Germans died everyday within the outburst of the war in August 1914 and the ceasefire of November 1918 observes Robert J. Delahunty in “All Quiet”. Other than being a survivor, Erich Maria Remarque was, according to Taki Theodoracopulos in "Soldiering is for others” an abundant novelist of war. Remarque main intention for writing were to show or prove to people that the war was not the way other writers describe it. He is most famous for the novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” observed by Christina Spittel in “Remembering the War”.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque was the war novel that changed what ‘war novel’ meant. No longer would war be a fantasy for the growing generation, but a real-life death trap. World War I came with many innovations to warfare: machine guns, poison gases, trench-style warfare. While these technologies were supposed to improve warfare, it made war longer with more casualties. In All Quiet on the Western Front war is not looked up to, it is looked down upon from the perspective of a soldier. Remarque stated that he wrote the novel to tell of a generation that had been corrupted by the war. Along with that, it is evident that the novel was meant to tell how the war corrupted so many, the horrors of war. Remarque tells the story of a new war generation and the horrors that ensued through the use of symbolism, imagery, figurative language, and tone.

In the words of Otto Von Bismarck, “Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” Many of the preceding war novels to All Quiet on the Western Front, misrepresented or overlooked the anguish of war, in favor of more resplendent ideals such as glory, honor, or nationalism. The predominant issue of All Quiet on the Western Front is the terrible atrocities of war. The reality that is portrayed in the novel is that there was no glory or honor in this war, only a fierce barbarity that actually transformed the nature of human existence into irreparable, endless affliction, destroying the soldiers long before their deaths.

Any and all events in one's life may change a person profoundly, but the effect may not always be as expected. For instance, situations of despair may cause feelings of depression and uncertainty to develop in an individual, as would likely be expected. However, those same situations could ultimately lead to a sense of fulfilment or enlightenment. In the novels All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Remarque, The Wars by Timothy Findley, and A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemmingway, the varying possibilities of the effects of war on an individual are clearly displayed. In All Quiet On The Western Front, Paul Baumer finds the war has changed not only the way he views

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

We will first focus on two poems that were produced during wars, and use similar methods to try and express the atrocities and horrors of war, and the deaths that ensued from them. The

One of the most acclaimed war novels of all time is Erich Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front. This book is one of the most accurate depictions of what a soldiers life is like during time of war. Erich himself was a German soldier during World War I and used many of the situations he experienced throughout the novel to enhance its accuracy of the war. Thanks to the author’s personal connection to the story, the novel was able to catch the attention of many after the war was over for how shockingly detailed it was. Through the historically accurate depictions of war, this novel is able to show how war was like for those who were in it, what they thought of it, and how it affected those who were not even in the heat of battle.

The theme that will be explored is death. Death. is a scary event that. will happen. to everyone. Every. moment. of the day someone. dies, and unfortunately innocent people are getting killed every day from these vicious wars going on in the world. No one seems to think about others and how they feel. Guns, bombs, gas attacks, they all kill and take lives of parents, children or even whole villages. To understand the two poems, their similarities, their differences and both their anti-war messages, one must really. study the poems in depth, as both poems have a deep, unfathomable. significance behind them.