All Quiet On The Western Front Remarque Analysis

The author of The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien, and the author of All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, both use literary devices and overlying theme to show that war changes people. For example, Tim O’Brien has used setting as a great metaphor of a person forever orbiting a vortex caused by the Vietnam War. The theme is also quite prevalent in All Quiet On The Western Front, particularly when Paul goes on leave to his hometown and experiences a sort of “culture shock” because

All Quiet on the Western Front recalls the story of a German soldier on the front lines during World War I. Throughout the book Paul Baumer expresses his thoughts on the horrors of war, as well as, his new found brotherhood and sense of family with his fellow soldiers. The author has written this story as an adventure, but meticulously added the harsh truth of the battlefields. Remarque’s narrative was so effective because his narrative techniques, such as point of view, mood, and conflict, bring

Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a group of German soldiers and their experience as soldiers during World War I. Paul Baumer, the main character, and his friends, Stanislaus Katczinsky, Albert Kropp, and Mueller, whiteness extreme brutality and bloodshed unfold around them, as the war begins to take its toll on each character one by one, fighting in the trenches of WWI. Remarque tells the audience of the intensity of the war, as well as the horrors that the characters

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front written by Eric Remarque is a powerful anti-war novel. It is about a young man of nineteen who fights in the German army at the western front. He is accompanied by his friends and soon realise that war isn’t glorious or honourable, and they live in constant terror. Throughout the novel Remarque describes the physical and psychological horrors of war as well as how they have become the lost generation and the question of who is the enemy. He includes many writing

feelings during the war were Erich Maria Remarque, who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front, and Edward Thomas, who wrote “This is no case of petty right or wrong”. While Thomas uses metaphors and an aggravated tone to reveal why patriotism is more beneficial than nationalism in his poem, Remarque more effectively presents this theme through his more extensive use of specific metaphors, accusatory word choice, and emotional tone in his novel. As an example, Remarque is superior in the metaphors that he

life out on the battlefield. Erich Maria Remarque, was born in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1898. His family was lower-middle class and he lived humbly. In 1916, when World War I broke out, he was drafted. Expectedly, he got injured during the war, but luckily he survived. Like many people back then, especially German people, the idea of war was heavily romanticized and he couldn’t have fathomed how dark and brutal it actually was. He

Erich Maria Remarque once said about his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front: “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 shells, were destroyed by the war”. War has a lasting impact on soldiers and changes them significantly. All quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a book about

mentally, and typically not for the better. World War One, typically referred to as WW1, the War to End All Wars, or the Great War, lasted roughly four years and resulted in millions of deaths as well as tens of millions of casualties. Of these men on the battlefield, is author Erich Maria Remarque, who is well known for his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. Against war in general, Remarque uses character Paul Baumer from his novel, and reflects his experiences in WW1 to show the ruthlessness

Jeremy Crossley Mr. Wiseman English IV CP March 9, 2015 An Analysis of All Quiet On The Western Front Ever since I can remember my father has been in and out of the country as a private contractor for the Department of Defense. He would be gone for eight, nine, sometimes ten months at a time with little communication. Through the ten months of him being overseas in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. I would go weeks and sometimes months without talking to him. I wasn’t able to watch the

Erich Maria Remarque could not have known just how influential his fictitious take on the German perspective of World War I would be when he first published All Quiet on the Western Front. Almost one hundred years later, the book has sold over 30 million copies and three movies have been released. Many historians credit the renowned success of the novel to its exemplary depiction of the experience of WWI from a German soldier’s perspective. A large part of what makes this novel feel so real is Remarque’s

the countries involved were unprepared for one of the worst wars in history. Two books, The Guns of August and All Quiet on the Western Front address and highlight major themes of World War I. The books offer insight to the political and military strategies of France, England, and Germany during the first month of the war, as well as the emotions of a German soldier on the Western Front in the final days leading up to the German Armistice. Each book uniquely describes an aspect of war and creates

All Quiet on the Western Front: A Literary Analysis The Author and His Times Erich Paul Remark (most commonly known as Erich Maria Remarque) was born on June 22nd, 1998 in Onsabruck, Westphalia; a town in Germany. He was the son of his mother Anna Maria Stallnecht Remark and his father, Peter Franz Remark, who was a master machinist and a bookbinder. As a young boy growing up in a lower-working class family, he moved houses eleven times between 1898 and 1912 and was called Schmieren, or “Smudge”

On January 29, 1929, just 10 years, 2 months, 18 days after the Great War, All Quiet on the Western Front, was published and it’s author was of a scarred man by the name of Erich Maria Remarque, who served in the German army during the first World War. The bloodied, bombed, and distraught landscape painted by Remarque was one only a veteran of conflict can picture because of his experiences as a plain and insignificant infantryman wrought by the plague of the Second Horseman, the Red Horseman of

Erich Maria Remarque in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. As a writer, Remarque unknowingly left his novel open to readers with completely different perspectives, and to various forms of criticism. This undoubtedly meant that every single reader had been affected by the novel in many different ways which unfortunately for Remarque may have been an effect that he never intended. This essay is divided into 5 main sections. Firstly it will address any of the intentions Remarque could have possibly

Theme Analysis In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque, Remarque argues that life is very fragile and can be taken away from many people very quickly. Throughout the novel, the main character Paul sees this for himself as he witnesses the death of all of his fellow friends during World War I and ultimately is killed himself. The first event is the death of Joseph who ”got hit in the eye during an attack and [they] left him lying for dead” ( Remarque 7). Before the death of