I noticed this novel highlights the patriotism and glory associated with war in opposition to the gruesome realities of war. The storyline follows the experiences of Paul and his friends. Paul was persuaded by his teacher Kantorek to join what Kantorek called the “Iron Youth”. Kantorek delivered patriotic and nationalistic speeches that ultimately convince Paul and his friends to enlist to fight in World War I. The experience of fighting in the trenches quickly shows them that those nationalistic ideals are irrelevant on the front lines of a war zone.…
Death by Instincts: An Examination of Soldiers Turning Towards their Animal Halves Out in the wild animals rely on their instincts to survive, either escaping from a predator or fighting for their lives. In WWI, humans often turned over their consciousness to these animal instincts to keep alive and win their fight. While this exchange seemed to keep them alive, it actually killed the soldiers internally. These soldiers’ mental undoing were documented after WWI in All Quiet on the Western Front, which narratives the lives of Paul Bäumer and his classmates fighting in the war.…
War will take its toll on a soldier. In the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque, the soldiers of Second Company come out of the war damaged in many ways which are almost unpreventable. Their bodies are hurt, their minds are full of fear and they are eventually molded to think that being surrounded death is a normal day to day thing. The soldiers relationships with people and places are destroyed their generation is lost. War leaves them alone and afraid.…
Death is illustrated as unjust and unfair before the war, and when over exposed to the theme of death, casualties become small and insignificant. In this essay we’ll be going in depth about the themes of bravery as something that under the right circumstances anyone can have, Family is something that we adapt to, that affects us, and that death can be justified.…
These young men are dying slow and painful deaths. The fellow soldiers feel useless because they can not do anything. Hearing cries from the wounded from sunrise to sunset in constant distress. Witnessing the pain of others, Remarque shows that the death of soldiers are not mourned or grieved because death is unvaried in…
These events filling their minds and corrupting them caused them to become enthralled with war and what was going on, soldiers forgot what real life was like. “when i think of her, I find it difficult to remember her face clearly”(Caputo 97). Their minds were so changed that they could not even remember how the faces of their girlfriends…
In the line of duty, a soldier could “take measure” of himself and see if he actually was the noble man he had believed himself to be all this time. In most cases, the surreal feeling of bullets whizzing past and the feeling of responsibility to a common…
The Great War was largely determined by the technological progress that was pressed upon each country in order to subsist. The most notable advancement, displayed in the photograph above, is the infamous machine gun. It was “capable of sustained rates of extremely rapid fire; it could fire 600 bullets per minute with a range of more than 1,000 yards” (World War I, Britannica). Unlike its ancestors, the machine gun is able to stay in position after fire and doesn’t require readjustments after each shot. Another development was barbed wire, which protected the trenches from infiltrating soldiers charging across no man 's land.…
In world war 1 there was a lot of tactics for battle in world war 1 like tanks, flamethrowers, posion gas, tracer bullets, interrupter gear, air traffic control, depth charges, aircraft carriers, pilotless drones, mobile X-ray machines, sanitary napkins. Those are basically all of the new technology in world war 1 which was 1914-1918 but the tactic im using is air warfare which is planes and the planes they used were B.E.2. Biplanes which were used for reconnaissance which is military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features. Since trench warfare was so violent, they just used the B.E.2. Biplanes for gathering information beyond enemy trenches so they were essential for discovering where the enemy was based…
“We see men living with their skulls blown open... we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces… on every yard there lies a dead man”(Remarque page 134-135). The war has inflicted so much trauma that some soldiers try putting themselves out of their misery, so they don’t have to live in a never ending nightmare. When they fight, they become inhuman not caring about the causalities and the aftermath. “We have become wild beasts”(Remarque page 113).…
“Here is happening-truth. I was once a soldier. There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young and I was afraid to look. And now, twenty two years later, I am left with a faceless responsibility and faceless grief” (O’Brien 180).…
The soldiers develop shame as they realize how their cowardice in addressing their fear of death affects themselves and others. In “Friends”,…
The war’s destructive force on its participants and the conditioning of soldiers to kill is retold in Killing; the struggle to provide the dead with acceptable burial in Burying; the challenges in identifying the dead in Naming; the process of mourning and its transformative powers on…
The lives of men in war are completely different than any ordinary day for someone not in war. They face many things that regular people couldn’t cope with. They have to worry about loud noises; the machine guns, diseases, and exploding artillery shells that often caused them to panic and lose their bearings. They only went forward because they were carried on by the force of the soldiers around them. Soldiers in war also lived with the persistent presence of death and watching people they loved die.…
World War One was the first of its kind, men used toxic gasses as weapons, there were tanks, airplanes, and other technological advances. The mass development of war also means there are more ways to kill the enemy. Isaac Rosenberg’s “Break of Day in the Trenches” and Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” are both poems that depict World War One as hellish and evil in nature, as soldiers, they are surrounded by death. Both poets represent death in an ironic way, because war is considered hellish and gruesome, people die, and Owen shows the irony between the romanticized war while Rosenberg shows irony through the freedom of a rat; the two poets alludes to death in devices such as imagery. “Break of Day in the Trenches” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” stand in for death because they use war as a paradox.…