The Futility of War: an Analysis of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on

strawmanStories of wars and the resulting victories are usually told in passing embellished narratives that seek to cover the grim realities of war as much as they aim to whip up popular emotion in install to ensure support for any future wars among the masses. However, war, by its very disposition, is uncomplete desirable nor its outcome praiseworthy. Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front lays bare the gritty, gruesome and last-ditchly self- mastering nature of wars. As Paul Baumer and his soldier comrades enlist and join the Germany Army in order to defeat the enemy, they themselves are slowly vanquished, first psychologically and last physically through death. As the soldier members Paul Baumers accompany are slowly killed in battle, he becomes more and more disillusion with the war, especially since he and his friends had enlisted with idealistic aims fed to them by their teacher Kantorek. preferably of patriotic glory and poetic war victories, Paul and hi s friends tack defeat and ephemeral triumphs instead of honor, they encountered dishonor instead of personal growth and advancement, they found stagnation and watched their youthful dreams die. Through the war experiences of Paul Baumer as visualised in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the ultimate tragedy of war is revealed it destroys the lives of its very agents the soldiers by crashing their dreams and claiming their lives for little discernible boilersuit gain.Going To WarUltimately, Paul Baumer and his high school mates sky-high enlisted and went to war first out of a sense of youthful adventure. scarce out of their teens, Paul and his high school mates are not old enough to understand the socio-economic and political factors that charact... ... war as captured by the leaders of the war hardly depicts the futility of war, and only the through the accounts of soldiers on the scarecrow does the truth emerge, as it does in the novel that war is counter-productive . Works CitedHunt, Nigel. The ploughshare of All Quiet on the Western Front to our understanding of psychological trauma. European Psychiatry 19, no. 8 (2004) 489-493.Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Trans. A. W. Wheen. New York Fawcett Books, 1982. Robinett, Jane. The Narrative Shape of Traumatic Experience. Literature & medicinal drug 26, no. 2 (Fall2007 2007) 290-311.Tighe, Joseph A. 2004. All Quiet on the Western Front A Phenomenological Investigation of War. Critical Survey 16, no. 3(Fall 2004) 48-61.Ware, Thomas C. Remarques all told QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Explicator 63, no. 2 (Fall 2005) 99-100.