Essays on All Quiet on The Western Front

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...

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...

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...

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...

War-Machines 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...