All Quiet on the Western Front: The Quiet Novel that Screamed a Message
In Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", the main character
Paul Baumer who is 18 years old, is sent to the front to fight for his
homeland, Germany. He and his friends go through a spectrum of typical war
expiriences: the deaht of a comrad, the terror of shelling, the abuse by their
officers, etc. Remarque as well as Paul hates everything about the war: its
meaninglessness, the lives of young people that it destroys or the innocent
people that it kills. Throughout the whole book, the author conveys this
hatred in many different ways.
The most common way Remarque shows his hatred is by using the
plot of the novell itself. He offen does this by describing the death of Paul's
close friends or by describing the sickness of his mother. A good example of
this technique is the death of Paul's friend Kemmerich. It can be felt how
terrible the death of innocent people is while...
use nature as the judge to condemn war, along with shocking imagery, so that his
Paul Bäumer's leave from the war is an opportunity for him to see life removed from the harshness of war. As he makes the journey home, the closer he gets the more uncomfortable he feels. He describes the final part of his journey, "then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar." (154) Rather than being filled with comfort at the familiarity of his homeland, he is uneasy. War has changed him to the extent in which he can no longer call the place where he grew up home. Bäumer visits with his mother and recognizes that ideally this is exactly what he wanted. "Everything I could have wished for has happened. I have come out of it safely and sit here beside her." (159) But ultimately he will decide that he should have never gone on leave because it is just too hard to be around his family and see how different he has become. Bäumer finds that it is easier to remain out on the war front than return to his family.
The story takes place through the eyes of a German infantryman named Paul Baumer. He is nineteen and just joined up with the German army after high school with the persuasion of one of his schoolteachers, Mr. Kantorek. Paul recalls how he would use all class period lecturing the students, peering through his spectacles and saying: "Won't you join up comrades?"(10). Here was a man who loved war. He loved the "glory" of war. He loved it so much as to persuade every boy in his class to join up with the army. He must have thought how proud they would be marching out onto that field in their military attire.
During training Paul and his schoolmates come across Colonel Himmelstoss who teaches them the survival skills needed in the front. During training Himmelstoss tortures the recruits but is indirectly teaching them to become hard, pitiless, vicious, and tough soldiers. Althou...
... him. Death, which he once agonized over, is now a daily occurrence and seems commonplace to him. Life, which he once took for granted, is now cherished beyond belief, and holding on to it becomes his greatest preoccupation. These effects are not limited only to Paul Bäumer, but extend to all the millions of people that are involved, directly or indirectly, in the war. WW I has far-reaching impact. It not only touches those in combat on the front lines, but also those who support the soldiers and help to make munitions and supplies on the homefront. Bäumer, and the millions of other people involved in WW I, learn the difficult lesson that the most trying experiences in life, or in this case death, are what make us the strongest and what drive us to survive.
Erich Remarque uses the character Paul Baümer to depict the image of war. All of the knowledge the reader acquires, of war and its effects on the men are through his thoughts and experiences. Due to this first
Imagine being in an ongoing battle where friends and others are dying. All that is heard are bullets being shot, it smells like gas is near, and hearts race as the times goes by. This is similar to what war is like. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the narrator, Paul Baumer, and his friends encounter the ideals of suffering, death, pain, and despair. There is a huge change in these men; at the beginning of the novel they are enthusiastic about going into the war. After they see what war is really like, they do not feel the same way about it. During the war the men experience many feelings especially the loss of loved ones. These feelings are shown through their first experience at training camp, during the actual battles, and in the hospital.
The Father and the child encounter slaves of other survivors who are killed for food and Paul Bäumer spends and artillery strike with a man whom he killed. The protagonists’ two encounters show the audience the two sides of the face, the gruesome and the glorious. When an enemy foot soldier falls into Paul’s shell hole, Paul “strikes madly at home” and wishes to “stop his mouth, stab him again” but “cannot any more lift [his] a hand against him.” As Paul Bäumer admits that it was his first “time [he] [had] killed with his hands” and becomes truly apologetic as he tries to clean and repair the man’s “three stab wounds” he shows the audience a version of Paul who was never corrupted by war and death. This insight into the psyche Paul Bäumer shows the extraordinarily good circumstances of the face in which the realization can prompt us to virtuousness and compassion. Paul Bäumer’s climaxes as a protagonist when he is at his weakest and most unsure; the audience realizes that Paul is truly shocked to the core as he states that “his hands are white at the knuckles” after the murder. In the hand-to-hand combat, similar to that of Greek epic heroes, Paul Bäumer discovers his hatred of war as he knows that he “did not want to kill [the soldier]” and laments that the masterminds of war “never tell us that you are poor devils like us.” As Paul Bäumer comes to terms with committing the slaughter of the enemy soldier, he begins to realize that there are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for (Camus). Similarly, the Father experiences horrific human brutality, however unlike Paul, the Father did not inflict the pain. As the Father walked down the “ rough wooden steps” and into the “coldness and damp” of the dungeon
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. Remarque is accurately able to portray the episodes soldiers go through. All Quiet on the Western Front shows the change in attitudes of the men before and during the war. This novel is able to show the great change war has evolved to be. From lining your men up and charging in the eighteenth century, to digging and “living” in the trenches with rapid-fire machine guns, bombs, and flame-throwers being exposed in your trench a short five meters away. Remarque makes one actually feel the fun and then the tragedy of warfare. At the beginning of the novel Remarque gives you nationalist feelings through pride of Paul and the rest of the boys. However at the end of the war Remarque shows how pointless war really is. This is felt when everyone starts to die as the war progresses.
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