All Quiet On The Western Front

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resulting in few casualties and from which their troops emerge elated and victorious. The soldiers on the front lines actually experience events, which scar their minds with thoughts of death and destruction. Remarque displays these ideas of pain and suffering through ignorance, fear, and inhumanity.
Remarque depicts the misconception of war, by capturing the unknowingness that prevents those not fighting the war, from understanding the truth about war’s hideous reality. Ignorance, one of the many facets of the people’s general understanding of war, causes the formation of a gap between the soldiers and the rest of society. “ But my father would rather I kept my uniform on so that he could take me to visit his acquaintances.” (pg.164) Paul states that he has no desire to wear a uniform that represents the unfathomable death and destruction of the war. Paul’s father can not comprehend the fact that the uniform means more than loyalty, bravery, and ...

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cage in which we must wait fearfully whatever may happen.” (pg.101) Paul states that the uncertainty of war results in unending suffering. This suffering takes a toll not only on the body, but on the mind as well. Soldiers live with death on a regular basis, which no doubt works on the mind in such a fashion that the fear of their own death and the deaths of their friends causes tremendous anxiety. At one point in the novel Paul defines the front as “ …a mysterious whirlpool”(pg.55). The troops’ fear of the unknown force upon them uncertainty in a time during which the utmost confidence is required. A soldier lacking the confidence to react to his surroundings ...

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