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Influence Of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front

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Between the years of 1918 and 1939 came the period of the Inter War. This period occurred during the end of World War with Germany’s Ceasefire and The Paris Peace Conference and the start of World War II with the attack of Poland. The series of several events brought many theorist and ideologist to express themselves in either books or articles. Wilson Woodrow showed participation in the Paris Peace Conference by mentioning fourteen points that promoted liberal views as he wished to finish the suppression of people who have been under the autocracies and empires. Unfortunately, Clemenceau and many others rejected him. Wilson 's thoughts regarding the inter war movements include how everyone was fighting in the War for the liberty of mankind, …show more content…

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist who begins his work by comparing soldiers to things such as action figures. He does this comparison by mentioning how it is as if they have been shelved due to the fact that they don’t function properly anymore. He mentions how most World War I soldiers were injured rested in a hospital, which were classified by the places they 've been wounded. That whole building would be filled with human waste and destroyed body parts, being incredibly gruesome. This all meaning that the soldiers are practically dehumanized. There were hundreds of thousands of hospitals all over Germany, France, and Russia similar due to such conditions. He is in fact a part of the lost generation because he is only twenty years old, yet knows "nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and the fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow" all because of the war. People who unfortunately took part in growing up in such generation were also experiencing the same emotions. The narrator mentions how he wonders what society would particularly want from them once the war ends, due to the fact that through the years, all they’ve been taught to do was kill - "our knowledge of life is limited to death." What are they going to do

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Erich Maria Remarque’s classic account of misery, woe, and war overrides the plot of All Quiet on the Western Front, recreating the devastation and emotional dismemberment of German soldier, Paul Baumer, and his childhood acquaintances. Baumer is violently ripped through a symbolically eternal dispute between opposing nations; however the entirety of the novel is seen through Remarque’s eyes. As a vessel for propaganda and persuasion, Remarque attaches parasitic personalities, desolate descriptions, and vivid verbs to convey desperate times on The Western Front. Without Remarque’s vocabulary and literary devices, the novel would be stripped of its ability to evoke passionate emotions in the reader.

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Chris was definitely a misguided idealist if anything. He had this wild fantasy in his head that everything would fall “in place” if he went out and spent some time in the wild. Despite being so intelligent, Krakauer ended up getting brainwashed by the ideals of Jack London, Leo Tolstoy, and Henry David Thoreau. Jack London mesmerized Chris McCandless with the way he portrayed life in both the Yukon and Alaska; on page forty-four, it was said that McCandless “was so enthralled by these tales, however, that he seemed to forget that they were works of fiction, constructions of the imagination that had more to do with London’s romantic sensibilities than with the actualities of life in the subarctic wilderness.” Along with London, Chris was fascinated by Tolstoy, who “had forsaken a life of wealth and privileges to wander among the destitute.”

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As the novel continues, Henry grows in a certain way in which he becomes more mature and gains more experience with war and death. Henry becomes a lot more daring and by the end of the book, he has become a changed man. His confidence allows him to face a different reality that in war, he either has to fight or die. As he comes out of the battle victoriously, his perspective of courage is more realistic and rational. He gains the confidence to be angry toward the enemy instead of fearing them.

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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.

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