Remarque in the first pages of his book All Quiet on the Western Front summarises the theme of his entire text by dedicating it to "a generation that was destroyed by the war - even those who survived the shelling". This text is the tragic account ... of "modern" mechanized trench warfare. Remarque brutally strips away these misconceptions with his grimly poetic prose to reveal truth. As Baumer and his young friend are increasingly desensitized on the western front, their only small joys come from having a modicum of decent food to eat, and the empty satisfaction of their sexual drives in br...

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The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque has revealed the horrifying and devastating effects of war on humanity. Instead of presenting, like many other novels did before, the glorifying and heroic aspects of war, Remarque ... ...

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... and formed new classes of people - as the earlier aristocratic power transformed into a plutocratic one. The cities grew rapidly, taking over the agrarian lifestyles. Western ideas came about which instilled the desire to have a constitution defending human rights and democracy. Nihilism culminated into an enormous political movement which has been represented ... and the liberals. The Nihilists who can also be seen as the "sons" in this particular novel, sought changes in social structure that were western based. This mode of thought contrasted with the Slavophiles who believed in trad...

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