...In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, the main character, Paul Baumer, and his friends fight for Germany in World War 1. The boys experience all types of trauma throughout the book. Unfortunately, none of the main characters survived the book. However, if they had, it is very believable that they would have suffered from similar symptoms as those of PTSD, or PTSD itself. At one point in the book, Paul went home on leave. At one point, Paul says, “It will be like this too, if I am lucky, when the war is over and I come back here for good. I will sit here just like this and look at my room and wait” (Remarque 145). Later, he says, “Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself. And at the same time I fear to importune it too much, because I do not known what might happen then. I am a soldier, I must cling to that” (Remarque 147). While these quotes do not directly show symptoms of PTSD, they show that for the brief time that Paul was home, he was suffering because of what he had went through in...
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...Erich Maria Remarque's life reflects Paul Bäumer's in All Quiet On the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque uses All Quiet On the Western Front to write about his life. Paul Baumer reflects Erich Maria Remarque throughout the novel. Erich Maria Remarque is influenced by his life when writing All Quiet On the Western Front. Paul Bäumer is influenced to fight for Germany in World War I when "Kantorek had been our school master... I can see him now, as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice "wont you join up, comrades"'(Remarque 11). Paul is influenced to go to war when his teacher begged and yelled at Paul and his classmates to go and fight, so they did and most of the class went right after they graduated. Erich...
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...All Quiet on the Western Front There are not many books written about World War I. All Quiet on the Western Front was written by Erich Maria Remarque. Paul Bäumer is a German soldier who fought in the trenches during WWI. Bäumer is the protagonist and narrator of All Quiet on the Western Front. Paul Baumer’s testament of the war is bitter invective against sentimental ideas. Paul Bäumer is a 19 year old male that enlisted in World War One. Bäumer is very fit because of the war. All Quiet on the Western Front states, “All four are nineteen years of age, and all four joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war.” (Remarque 4). Because of Paul’s fitness, he can do many things in the military, and to help him stay alive. Paul Bäumer...
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...WAR LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT ON PAUL BAUMER’S CHARACTER AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ‘LOST GENERATION’ IN REMARQUE’S NOVEL, ALL QUIET ON THE WEATERN FRONT All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The novel is about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during the war. It is based on Remarque’s own experiences at war which enabled him to capture the realism and authenticity needed to exemplify the feelings of a soldier. Through the novel he was able to capture the feeling of seclusion and loneliness among the soldiers. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I, in which he was badly wounded. In 1926, after the war ended, he published Im Westen Nichts Neues which he later translated into English as All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel has been heralded by critics throughout the world as the greatest war novel of all time. It helped capture every thought that went through a soldier’s mind who belonged to the "lost generation". War changes life. Conditioned by the aggression and lifestyle of being a soldier, young adult Paul Baumer in Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front, over the course of four years, changed from a naive high school graduate to a mature but disillusioned adult. The violence and trauma in the trenches of World War I exposed Paul to the horrors of injuries and infections, the fragile state of life, the terrors of death...
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...Fueled by nationalism, ran by machines and hidden in trenches, the first modern war unfolds: World War I. Existing as some idealized sense of promoting one’s country for the better good, a false reality evolved in regards to life on the fore front. Erich Remarque, a german veteran, displays the actuality of war through images of mass violence, descriptions of new weapons and machinery, and the individual lives of soldiers on the forefront. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque conveys physical wartime experiences to highlight the assault on soldiers’ understandings of themselves in regards to a loss of identity and loss of humane behavior as a result of the physical and psychological toll World War I brought upon young soldiers. The brutalities of the physical wartime experience left...
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...When the unexpected happened, a world war, nobody believed that after it was over, a path would be paved for a second world war and more horrors to come. In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, people can delve inside the mind of a solider from the front lines of World War One and witness the effects this war had on European society. Due to this war, normalization of war and violence occurred, mindsets shifted, and a difference in the perspective of war and life materialized between the soldiers on the front line and the people who did not have similar experiences, and economic struggles ensued. These in turn allowed a man, who the world learned later was cruel and dictative, to rise to power in Germany and World War Two was able to ensue....
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...The European Societies and Governments Over the Course of World War I From 1914 until 1918, World War I, with its center in Europe, was fought. All the major powers in the world were represented, fighting against each other in 2 types of alliances: the Allies (led by Russia, France, Italy and United Kingdom) and the Central Powers (led by Germany and Austria-Hungary.) 70 million professional and unprofessional soldiers fought, with an approximated loss of 10 million people. This war caused huge upheavals in the European society, and I will now look into three different aspects that can be seen as a step in the direction of the modern Europe, that we have seen after World War II and continuously until today. Once World War I started, a lot of men, many of them with passion for their own countries, left to defend their fatherlands. As the men went to the trenches, the women that were left at home had to start working or volunteering to keep the wheels spinning. What typically had to be done were jobs such as making uniforms for the soldiers, and working in hospitals that took care of hurt soldiers. According to the reading Four Weeks in the Trenches, Kreisler’s wife volunteered her services as a Red Cross nurse (Kreisler, page 11.) It was not completely revolutionary that the women were working, but now the job they did really got appreciated. It paid off after the war, and in countries such as Great Britain, Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union, the women...
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