individual’s fragile identity in his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. Paul Bäumer, the protagonist of Remarque’s novel, is a soldier in World War I, but more importantly, a victim of the spiritually and mentally depriving conditions of war. Paul, a young, artistic boy before the war, enlists into the German army in World War I with his entire class of young, eighteen-year old boys. Slowly throughout the conflict, Paul has horrifying, utterly brutal experiences; he sees his comrades die one by one,…
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