DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE

Democracy and Justice



Democracy and Justice

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front in 1929 based on the novel of the same name by German author Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970). Drafted into the German army at 18, Note saw action in World War I where he was wounded several times, at that time, provided that one of the best descriptions for this purpose. Remarque participated in World War I (the final war, the war would end all wars) fighting against France, the country of their ancestors. When he writes "All Quiet ..." thumb makes the demons of war, does not think publishing it, and once finished save it in a drawer. It is at the behest of a friend who introduced him to public periodic installments, then throw the book with immediate success. It caused the anger of nationalist and militaristic Germany, which even denied veteran status. It is a story of war as only someone who has participated in one can write, he was accused of bloody, cruel and exaggerated, but all war is bloody and cruel exaggeration. The narrator gives us some background details and highlights some characters. Kat, who is 40 years, is the respected leader of the group and Paul admires him for his practical skills and good instincts. The narrator compares it Himmelstoss, a former postman, who is basically incompetent but has embraced every ounce of power that his military rank gave him.

In this book, the German writer Erich Maria Remarque, almost autobiographical, so far portrays the feelings of Paul Baumer, a young German soldier, almost a child, who, in first person, narrates us the daunting situation of the war , fellowship with peers, reporting relationships, their family ties through a description ... creepy, depressing and realistic, which penetrates the sensitive reader to make him share in the miseries, agonies and injustice of a war lost in advance by all combatants, irrespective of the side they are, detached from reality and immersed in everyday barbarism.Scenes in the novel give readers a sense of immediacy, as though they too honed bayonets, huddled in trenches, ducked waggle-tops and daisy-cutters, and grasped at life amid chaos. Taken as a unit, or what psychologists call a gestalt, the novel converges into a bleak pattern delineating the loss of personhood under the continual pounding of artillery, planes, and Allied assault. The death of Kemmerich early in the book is probably the loss that affects Paul the most. Kemmerich was wounded in the leg, which was later amputated.

He centers on the battlefield, beginning in medias res, or in the middle of things, moving back to the classroom and forward to the bitter end of Paul and his friends. He emphasizes the Homeric, or epic simile, comparing events of war with scenes from nature. He stresses hubris, the Greek concept of excessive pride, as seen in Himmelstoss' enjoyment of his power over young recruits and Kantorek's strutting chauvinism. He extends his canvas over a vast setting — ...