All Quiet On the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around thechangeswrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque’s protagonist, PaulBaumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during the course of this metamorphosis, Baumer disaffiliates himself from those societalicons—parents, elders, school, religion—that had been the foundation of …showed first 75 words of 3080 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3080 total…All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque shows the disorder created by the war. Thisdisorderaffects such elemental societal institutions as the family, the schools, and the church. Moreover, thewar is sochaotic that it infects the basic abilities, not the least of which is verbal, of humanity itself. Byshowing how theFirst World War deleteriously affects the syntax of language, Remarque is able to demonstrate how the warirreparably alters the order of the world itself.