All Quiet On The Western Front Critical Analysis

While apart of war, it has been and will still be common to experience suffering and disturbance due to the recurring events and actions seen. Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, has been very successful displaying events that are remarkably similar to the ones still occurring today. Paralleling themes from All Quiet on the Western Front, Tim O’Brien has been able to recreate some as well in his writing, The Things They Carried. Both of these works surpass the amount of description needed to provide an image of the ghastly events and of the transformation of men to inhuman creatures. These events push the men to act in such manner that would not be allowed in any other place than war. Accordingly, the horrors …show more content…
Throughout All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque wrote about scenes that could traumatise people due to how gruesome the outcome of the events were to the soldiers. An event like so includes when some of the soldiers stumbled upon a sector where the men were brutally mutated to the point that they found that “ … some of [their] men were found [with] noses … cut off and their eyes poked out with their own sawbayonets. Their mouths and noses were stuffed with sawdust so that they suffocated,” giving the realization of how horrific war really is. (Remarque 103). Events resembling outcomes as horrific as this was a common sight for the soldiers to live through everyday. O’Brien writes about a different situation that still has a terrible outcome, proving that these horrors of war occur all of the time. During the Vietnam war, soldiers witnessed one of their men get killed while going to the bathroom. One man described the event to be “ … boom, down” and he was dead. Dying as a pisser, “ … [s]till zipping himself up. Zapped while zipping” (O’Brien 17). O’Brien illustrates an event that seems so abnormal that people do not think about it even occurring, yet it could happen all of the time. Due to experiencing such appalling events, soldiers can and most likely will be affected by what they have seen, causing them to act certain

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All Quiet On The Western Front Critical Analysis