... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel that gives many accounts of dehumanization and changes the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. Each character in this novel shows the dehumanization process rather clearly. Dehumanization also played a roll in the difficulties European societies faced between the ... of death and destruction until they break down and go to pieces. Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a story of the hardships of P...

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All Quiet On The Western Front As a war develops and progresses, the soldiers of the battlefield are haunted by images of gunfire and the stench of death that are still present in the mind. Paul Baumer, a main character in the novel All Quiet On The Western Front written by Erich Mariaremarque, often describes how war creates feelings of isolation and dehumanization cause by its trench warfare; at the same time, however, he provides examples of experiences in war which might ... make the young soldiers more human. As Paul Baumer progresses through the book, picturing empty coffins, meeting a ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It is a story, not of Germans, but of men, who even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. The entire purpose of this novel is to illustrate the vivid horror and raw nature of war and to change the popular belief that war is an idealistic and romantic character. The story ... centers on Paul ... death. They have nothing to forward to but years of rage. They have experienced the horrors of war but not experienced enjoys of life. They will ...

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The remains of Paul Baumer's company had moved behind the German front lines for a short rest at the beginning of the novel. After Behm became Paul's first dead schoolmate, Paul viewed the older generation bitterly, particularly Kantorek, the teacher who convinced Paul and his classmates to join the military, feeling alone and betrayed in the world that they had left for him. Paul's generation felt empty and isolated from the rest of the world due to the fact that they had never truly established any part of themselves in civilian life. At boot camp, Himmelstoss abused Paul and his friends, ye...

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The novel's epigraph initiates the intent to further allow the reader to learn about the mental damage that the First World War imposed on soldiers. When Paul speaks about his entire generation "destroyed by the war-, he is talking about the way him and all of the other young soldiers becoming less and less human. The major psychological impact brought upon these young men wreaked havoc with their mental health after the war, even if they survived physically unharmed. Most of the soldiers that served the armies throughout Europe were very young, and at that early age, most of them felt like t...

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