FratFiles

• Save Paper

Some authors use themes to show the reader some perspective. Erich Maria Remarque’s book “All Quiet on the Western Front” uses many themes but there are four main ones. Those four themes are the Lost Generation, futility of war, sound imagery, and the institutionalization or depersonalization of war. Some of these themes can be integrated together to make an alarming yet wonderful effect to draw the reader into the story of “All Quiet on the Western Front”.

One of the most prominent themes book is also the most saddening. That theme is the institutionalization or depersonalization of war. Remarque begins the story with Germany’s soldiers fighting an
institutionalized war. Soldiers were trained to destroy and kill the enemy. By institutionalizing the war, it was made easier to kill someone just like you for no reason. But by depersonalizing the soldiers with their enemy, it left devastating effects on the mind and heart. Soldiers emotions......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 935
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Literary Themes In All Quiet O
   

   Literary Themes In All Quiet O Some authors use themes to show the reader some perspective. Erich Maria Remarque's book "All Quiet on the Western Front" uses many themes but there

2. 1960s Rock Outline
   

   pop culture. The sounds of nation reverberated across the Atlantic and reshaped the quiet folksy-blues oriented music of America and turned it into the noisy, angry, electric

3. The Awakeing
   

   of these beliefs, independence, sexual desire and passion were not written of in most literary works of the 19th Century. Kate Chopin crossed these boundaries, with The Awakening,

4. O Henry
   

   setting for such story. Coincidence vs Fate, as I have noticed, are the most prominent themes O.Henry has dealt with in this story. Besides, the common Porter's trademark ones,

5. Jack London: To Build A Fire
   

   to save himself from freezing to death after a series of mishaps. Involving such themes as fear, death, and the individual versus nature, "To Build a Fire" has been