Western Front: Assignment
All Quiet on the Western Front: Assignment #3: Focus on Chapter 4
1. Paul feels alone in battle and his only friend and family seems to be mother earth. He finds comfort and protection with earth since he’s alone in battle and there’s nothing else protecting him except for earth’s materials like bushes and trees hiding him form the enemy. Like a mother would protect her son. I’m not sure if this has much to do with the Oedipus Complex but since Paul is loving the earth ever so passionately he probably subconsciously is yearning for something more than just a mother figure in his life.
2. I agree with Paul that humans have animal qualities that are unleashed during time of need. In nature, animals have to fight and hunt just to eat and
1. Paul feels alone in battle and his only friend and family seems to be mother earth. He finds comfort and protection with earth since he’s alone in battle and there’s nothing else protecting him except for earth’s materials like bushes and trees hiding him form the enemy. Like a mother would protect her son. I’m not sure if this has much to do with the Oedipus Complex but since Paul is loving the earth ever so passionately he probably subconsciously is yearning for something more than just a mother figure in his life.
2. I agree with Paul that humans have animal qualities that are unleashed during time of need. In nature, animals have to fight and hunt just to eat and