Epigraph - “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war” (Epigraph 1). o this sets up the context and intent of the novel and implies that even though a young generation of men survived the war physically, they were destroyed by it mentally. o Implies the loss
thousand words, it shows that inside the soldiers the sides they fight on do not matter at all, what matters is the survival of their comrades, their friends. Many forms of literature, poetry, and art have shown the beauty of these bonds and the amazing extents soldiers go to to keep their brothers happy. Author Erich Maria Remarque of All Quiet on the
Later that day, Henry finds out that Jim had made a mistake on the rumor about going to compact the next day. Unhappy to hear that it wasn’t true, Henry is more concerned about if he is ever will be going to battle. Henry had a dream of being a hero at the battlefield and feels like that dream is drifting away from him every time people say that he isn’t going to the battlefield. Although he is drifting away from his dream, he goes back to thinking if he should really run away from the battle or
All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel which examines the emotional wounds and traumas experienced by troops fighting in the trenches of World War I and the disparity between the nationalistic sentiment with a sense of duty that dominated thinking of the day against the grim realities of combat. The author illustrates these aforementioned points by telling the stories of several troops on the front line depicting both their external realities and way of life along with their methods of handling
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