Hans Paris Enzenberger On Pacifism

The term pacifist, is well known throughout history, but they are not normally known as authors for poems and stories like the author Hans Magnus Enzenberger. The author Hans Magnus Enzenberger indirectly expresses his protest against World War II in a pacifist-like manner. Enzenberger writes about post-World War II, and he tries to send the message that violence is not a solution and that war is the wrong path to take. The different types of conflict presented in Enzenberger’s literary works helps to further develop the author's feelings towards World War Two itself. By using the different types of conflicts such as person versus person, person versus self, and person versus society, the author develops his protest towards the war.
Furthermore, the author describes the conflict person versus person in such a negative
Humans’ lust for violence disables the progression of life. The author writes of the violence which was common at the time, “Violence walked the street… screams in the sky” (Enzenberger 400). By expressing the violence in the society at the time, the author further develops his protest against violence. Through the violence expressed in the author's poem, the author struggles to find his own peace because of the society he lives in. The society’s views on peace are different from the author's perspective, “The thing he called his peace, he’s got it, there is no longer a mouth over his bones, to taste it with” (Enzenberger 400). Enzenberger’s peace is discovered to be unwanted due and not worth having due to the suffering of many that died during the war. Violence was a regular occurrence at the time, and the author sees violence as an ongoing problem no one cares enough about to stop. “There were screams in the sky” (Enzenberger 400). By not caring about the war, the author says that the violence spread more and more in the