Essays on All Quiet on The Western Front

Would it be difficult to live in horrible conditions, watch close friends die violently, and have the fear of dying at any moment? In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque the soldiers living through World War I endured all of those...

In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque demonstrates, through the character of Paul Baumer, how war has obliterated almost an entire generation of men. Because these men no longer retain a place in life and are incapable of relating with...

On the 28th June 1914, no one could have predicted that the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, would be assassinated (Royde-Smith and Showalter, 2020), which would ignite a flame that could never be stopped, World War 1 (WW1). World War One was one of the...

World War I was a conflict fueled by territorial desires and nationalism. This very sentiment is captured in Erich Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In the novel, the main characters, all young soldiers, come to understand that war is not glorious and...

World War I was known to be “The war to end all wars,” and also labeled as “The Great War.” It began in 1994, and was fueled by militarism and nationalism throughout Europe. Tensions increased within countries due to strained alliances, and competition to usurp...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque takes you through a voyage of war. As you read you are seeing the events through the perspective of a youthful German soldier. Utilizing imagery, purposeful anecdote, and exceptional symbolism the readers can be completely...

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...

Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front portrays an Un-romanticised version of war, differentiating from a context where war was celebrated in nationalistic ideals. In his exploration of the relentless physiological and physical strain war has on the soldiers, he hints at the nationalistic...

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow” (Remarque 263). All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is about 19-year-old Paul Bäumer, a...

Many people believe that facing death is the most catastrophic and horrible thing in the War. Is that truth? What about suffering in losing a idealistic future after going through everything that is killing your world view in war? In Erich Maria Remarque’s famous novel...

In the 1929 historical novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque portrays the physical and mental trauma the German soldiers face during World War I and how the soldiers develop a detachment from civilian life once they enlist in the front. The...

The map is not the territory, the sculpture is not the subject, and the sequential arrangement of black marks on a white page or screen (or red ochre on a cave wall) is not the reality it attempts to depict. Every recorded human experience has...

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity” (Eisenhower 1). These are words written by Dwight Eisenhower, a Five Star General in the United States Army, and a veteran soldier from...

Remarque’s account of the horrors of the Western Front in World War I, from the common German soldier’s perspective, is a poignant reminder of the horrors of war. Dehumanisation, death and destruction are the key themes are relayed through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a...

A group of new recruits comes to reinforce the company, and Paul’s friend Kat produces a beef and bean stew that impresses them. Kat says that if all the men in an army, including the officers, were paid the same wage and given the same...

How far does the literature of the First World War depict a search for normality despite the fact that the war has questioned ‘civilised values’? For many of those who took part in the First World War, ‘normality’ was not found until much after the...

Title: A Universal Loss of Innocence: Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” Author: Katherine Perry Words: 1,139 Written: January 23, 2009 Paul Bäumer lives in a world where killing is the only way to live, memories are as foreign as the enemy himself, and...

Writing towards the end of the twentieth century, German literary scholar Hans Wagener reflects on the deep resonance of war literature, stating: “When we think about certain periods of history, epoch-making books come to mind that capture the spirit of those times most vividly”. Indeed,...

History, always open to interpretation, is not merely limited to the traditional sources. It can be viewed through forms such as fiction, autobiography, or journalistic memoir, as demonstrated by Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz, and Timothy Garton...

Stranded They’re stranded, exhausted, empty, and just want to go home. Welcome to the world war lives of soldiers Paul Baumer and Louie Zamperini. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Baumer is a German soldier fighting for...

The ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ was the most influential and classic movie that accurately depicting the horrific living conditions, the fighting that many people lost their life and the experience to be in a war, but some facts have been beautified. It talked...