![]() ![]() The down-to-earth and unassuming narrative voice of Paul Baumer avoids anything in the way of high or polished rhetoric. ![]() Of particular importance in All Quiet on the Western Front is the novel’s style. This infamous front became a symbol of the most futile and meaningless aspects of World War I. Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches and barbed wire fences moved little between 19, despite incessant attempts on both sides to break through. ![]() Drawing on his own experience as a young man conscripted into military service for Germany, Remarque not only uses the character of Paul as his own mouthpiece but also makes his protagonist symbolic of the situation of all the soldiers who fought on either side of the western front. Written by Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), this depiction of the horrors of war is one of the most renowned German works of the 20th century. Analysis of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western FrontĪll Quiet on the Western Front depicts the disillusionment of Paul Baumer, a young foot soldier fighting in World War I. ![]()
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