All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, uses intense imagery to show the reader the realities of war. The book sends a jarring anti-war message without directly coming out as being against the war. Throughout the book, the main theme, running through almost every page, is the impact war has on the teenage soldiers. They are the lost generation. Since the book is written from the first person perspective of Paul Bäumer, a 19-year-old soldier, it explicitly captures the effect of war
individuals, all depending on different dispositions about the act itself. While some view war as a noble and honorable course of action to participate in, others proclaim that war and any aspect of righteousness exist in a mutually exclusive relationship; however, the reality in the actuality of war persists, regardless of individual opinion. As such, the rationalizations given for war originate from the synthesis of several different individual perspectives. Furthermore, through their works All Quiet
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin