How Does All Quiet On The Western Front Present The Horrors Of War

The horrors of war can be seen throughout most of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Although this novel takes place during World War I, horrors of war have been around since the beginning of war, and can still be seen here today. Almost all soldiers, regardless of which war they’re in, end up losing themselves. This is due to the experiences these soldiers have gone through and the horrors of war that they have seen or been a part of. War is a gruesome part of human history, and the different horrors often hidden within can tear the soldiers apart, both mentally and physically.

Perhaps one of the most gruesome scenes depicting the horrors of World War I in All Quiet on the Western Front is when Paul sees all the dead and wounded

The other soldiers can’t do much to help them either, as they are far too gone and it is too dangerous to attempt to save them. It leaves the readers disgusted and possibly even sad, because they wish there was some other way where they could either help them or that no one got injured, but that doesn’t happen in war. This happens in modern wars too. As soldiers try their hardest to recover their fallen, sometimes it is too dangerous and they have to leave them

When it’s over, many Americans are dead, as are many enemy troops. Some surviving Marines cut the ears off the enemy and attach them to their helmets…” When these soldiers were told to remove the ears from their helmets, they “started to cry, because [when they did it] it brought them back to their humanity” (Shaughnessy). These young men would never have thought of cutting off someone’s ears and using them as a trophy; it’s what this war has caused them to do and in the process take a piece of their humanity away, and replacing it with the horrors that they’ve