The novel All Quiet on the Western Front Written by Erich Maria Remarque is not only a specific story of World War I, but also a criticism of the destruction and pointlessness of war. The book was banned in Nazi Germany because it was critical of German military, and the idea of the “Iron Youth”, a campaign that promoted patriotism and war to young men. The novel tells the story of soldiers who endure the terrors of battle, and shows how war destroyed and entire generation of men and irreversibly detached them from the normal world. Remarque uses his experience in the war to explain that the entire generation of “Iron Youth” were either dead after the World War I, or too separated from their previous lives after experiencing the hatred and
In the novel All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Remarque displays the various situations the soldiers experienced throughout World War I from a German perspective. The characters in the novel endure unforeseen hardships and face severe adversity during their time at the front. Through the use of imagery, Remarque challenges the preconceived notions of war, bravery, and honor that were used as an incentive for the youth to join the war. In the scene where the first bombardment occurs, imagery is used to emphasize the antithesis of the previous romanticized notions based on what the characters encountered at the front.
Appealing to the fear of death and war is an effective rhetorical device to persuade an audience. The beginning scene of World War I when “No Man’s Land” is depicted uses this device. On the stage’s surface, the Axis and Allies’ tanks are firing while the scene presents the soldiers in a dark trench as debris falls on them. The soldiers are on the front lines and death is prevalent and unexpected. This appeals to the viewer in that they can picture themselves or a close family member in a similar situation.
Timothy Findley's The Wars is a piece of modern literature which depicts the vividness of the First World war and its implications. The novel is unique in that it violates the normal chronological presentation of events by incorporating flashbacks, which are communicated through the perspectives of multiple characters. Also, the complexity of the novel lies in rigid connections between the major themes presented such as war, animals, and privacy. To begin, the loss of innocence is a prominent theme which inevitably arises from the background of war. Intuitively, the loss of innocence can be defined as any process that helps to widen the observation of cruelties, tragedies, and injustice which are embedded in the world.
Revealing the Hidden Truths of World War II The media loves to paint war as heroism and duty. World War II is a great example of this in representations of the Allies’ war. In Paul Fussel’s Wartime, he hopes to reveal the misconceptions and unspoken truths of the Second World War. In the Preface, Fussel states that the book is about “the phycological and emotional culture of Americans and Britons during the Second World War . . .
In our life, there is a moment when we lose our innocence. We stopped going out to play with our friends, we no longer believed in the Tooth Fairy and in Santa Claus. There are multifarious ways we lost our innocence, but the one experience that genuinely ruins your innocence is war. In the novel “ All Quiet on the Western Front”, by Erich Maria Remarque, is by a soldier’s point of view, Paul Baumer’s, talking about a group of teens who were recruited to fight in the World War I. The novel depicts how their innocent minds were turned around by all the experiences they were subjected to.
When the youth are put into danger, it takes away their innocence and makes them adapt to survive. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Paul Müller and his classmates signed up to fight in the war. Unknowingly, they enlisted to fight in one of the deadliest wars in human history. World War 1 involved the death of 41 million men and women and changed the lives of the soldiers fighting in it forever. Remarque uses the symbols of Paul’s books, Kemmerich’s boots, and the butterflies to show how the war robs the youth of their innocence, causes the soldiers to lose their sympathy for others, and how nature distracts from this.
Throughout the ages, wars have wreaked havoc and caused great destruction that lead to the loss of millions of lives. However, wars also have an immensely destructive effect on the individual soldier. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, one is able to see exactly to what extent soldiers suffered during World War 1 as well as the effect that war had on them. In this essay I will explain the effect that war has on young soldiers by referring to the loss of innocence of young soldiers, the disillusionment of the soldiers and the debasement of soldiers to animalistic men. Many soldiers entered World War 1 as innocent young boys, but as they experienced the full effect of the war they consequently lost their innocence.
Fairy tales can be looked at as escape literature, however within the story Once Upon a Time it tells a story of deep meaning than just a family with paranoia issues. It all begins with the line “the little boy got a Space Man outfit and a book of fairy tales” (Gordimer 255). Nadine Gordimer emphasized apartheid through allusions of fairy tales within the story “Once Upon a Time”. Gordimer’s description of the “happy” family’s home is one with large fences, walls and many “safety” devices ensuring its safety.
Many families have many traditions, but one tradition that is common among all households is that they read fairy tales to their children right before they put them to sleep. They do this to fill their minds with good positive thoughts and leave them with something to think about. Religion dictates the characteristics of familiar fairy tales as religion provides a moral and ethical framework for having a good life, an ideal goal parents want their children to have. On the whole, fairy tales are constantly changed to adhere to cultural or social beliefs that are deemed important by diverse people in a community.
Erich Maria Remarque, a World War I veteran, took his own personal war experience to paper, which resulted in one of the most critically acclaimed anti-war movement novels of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front. The voice of the novel, Paul Baumer, describes his daily life as a soldier during the First World War. Through the characters he creates in the novel, Remarque addresses his own issues with the war. Specifically, Remarque brings to light the idea of the “Iron Youth,” the living conditions in the trenches, and the sense of detachment soldiers feel, among other things. Therefore, All Quiet on the Western Front criticizes the sense of nationalism, which war tends to create among citizens by quickly diminishing any belief regarding it as a glorious and courageous act.
Justyna Deszcz wrote an article based on Zipes’ political and socio-historical approach and added a variety of facts she had collected from many other authors and articles. Deszcz believes that the reason we have shifted into the submissive and “family-friendly” theme of fairy tales is because “the fairytale has been reduced to a mass-produced commodity, to be purchased and owned, and to bring in considerable profit. What is more, the fairytale is being used as a source and a vehicle of powerful self-mirroring images affirming the existing value system, and thus lulling audiences into passivity and compliance.” This point proves that the original thought of harsh realities needing to be exposed in story telling has converted to just being a profitable way to tell simple-minded children’s
“The Hero’s Journey”, Grimm’s Fairy Tales he talked about a little story name:Snow-White and Rose-Red. Well in the story all they showed about was that if they had some things to do all around them, but as in the story what on Snow-White would always do to Rose-Red and to show that there is a point where they would had some issues, “He held on to all the reeds and rushes, but it was of a little good,and he was forced to movements of the fish,and was in urgent danger to being dragged into the water.” So in Snow-White and Rose-Red, Grimm’s Fairy Tales,uses one aspect,to define, strengthen, and to illustrate the elements of work...
Undoubtedly , WW1 was the first utmost military conflict in the modern times that has evoked variety of literary responses which reflect the sociopolitical and psychological background of that time and are considered as vital part of the historical and cultural memory of WW1 . War poetry has provided us with variety of images of the war and the battlefield by men who have experienced the reality of war face-to-face. On the other hand, women knew from the beginning that the war was going to be a great tragedy not only for men who were enlisted in the army , but also for women on the homefront who battled against the fear and horror aroused by WW1 . Women 's voices of agony, anger and anguish have emerged from the shadows of marginalization during WW1 to express their anti-war attitude. Women 's poetry of WW1 mirrors the 'new ' roles that women took during WW1 and shows the connection between men in the battlefield and
Introduction There are many types of genres (categories) that a story may fall into. In my essay below I am going to identify and discuss 5 of them, namely: - Myths, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Aesop Fables and Legends. The myth genre includes seemingly historical stories, often supernatural in nature, and concerning the early history of a group of people. They are often used to explain the roots of a long standing cultural practice or of a natural or social occurrence. They frequently involve supernatural beings or events.
