All Quiet On The Western Front Literary Analysis
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Setting (DESCRIBE the time period, geographical location, historical/social context)
The setting in All Quiet on the Western Front takes place around the battlefield of the war, mainly the trenches. It was dark, morbid, chaotic and hopeless. Trench life was dreadful according to Paul. There was so much blood, mud and clamor from the blasts and bombs. The constant pounding of those bombs lasted for days, rumbling in those soldiers' ears. Moldy bread was served and was the only source of nutrition, which caused rats to run about, and also the water supply was scarce. It’s not unusual for soldiers to go insanely mad while cramped in those tiny little ditches while all …show more content…
Glorifying war means to focus more on the action and suspense instead of the loss of actual human life. Glorifying war can also be considered to be focused on heroic behavior. For example, “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” is a perfect example of many of our collective perceptions of the glorification of war. To begin with, let’s talk about violence. In “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”, the major villains are killed by the Autobot leader Optimus Prime in gruesome scenes of robot decapitation. At the end Witwicky also gets his hands dirty by killing the rival for his girlfriend. In director Bay’s world, war is the answer to everything. In “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”, Hollywood teaches that in war the enemy is not only wrong, but often is not even human. With every Hollywood movie that glorifies war and military hardware, our nation is nudged a degree closer to fascism. Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon has aroused millions of moviegoers with the spectacle of violent death, each killing of the “ethnic other”. An example of this in the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” would be Corporal Himmelstoss. He is tremendously brutal to his recruits, forcing them to follow absurd and risky orders simply because he enjoys harassing them. He had an idea of a cure for Tjaden’s bed-wetting—making him share a bunk with Kindervater, another bed wetter—the bed-wetting results from a medical condition and is not under Tjaden’s control. At this stage of the novel, Himmelstoss represents the meanest, aspect of humanity that war draws
Setting (DESCRIBE the time period, geographical location, historical/social context)
The setting in All Quiet on the Western Front takes place around the battlefield of the war, mainly the trenches. It was dark, morbid, chaotic and hopeless. Trench life was dreadful according to Paul. There was so much blood, mud and clamor from the blasts and bombs. The constant pounding of those bombs lasted for days, rumbling in those soldiers' ears. Moldy bread was served and was the only source of nutrition, which caused rats to run about, and also the water supply was scarce. It’s not unusual for soldiers to go insanely mad while cramped in those tiny little ditches while all …show more content…
Glorifying war means to focus more on the action and suspense instead of the loss of actual human life. Glorifying war can also be considered to be focused on heroic behavior. For example, “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” is a perfect example of many of our collective perceptions of the glorification of war. To begin with, let’s talk about violence. In “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”, the major villains are killed by the Autobot leader Optimus Prime in gruesome scenes of robot decapitation. At the end Witwicky also gets his hands dirty by killing the rival for his girlfriend. In director Bay’s world, war is the answer to everything. In “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”, Hollywood teaches that in war the enemy is not only wrong, but often is not even human. With every Hollywood movie that glorifies war and military hardware, our nation is nudged a degree closer to fascism. Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon has aroused millions of moviegoers with the spectacle of violent death, each killing of the “ethnic other”. An example of this in the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” would be Corporal Himmelstoss. He is tremendously brutal to his recruits, forcing them to follow absurd and risky orders simply because he enjoys harassing them. He had an idea of a cure for Tjaden’s bed-wetting—making him share a bunk with Kindervater, another bed wetter—the bed-wetting results from a medical condition and is not under Tjaden’s control. At this stage of the novel, Himmelstoss represents the meanest, aspect of humanity that war draws