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A 5 page paper which examines the novel within the context of European history during the 19th and 20th centuries, considers what was special about World War I which inspired such literary eloquence, and discusses what motivated Remarque to write his novel. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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4 sources. TGemaqwf.rtf Looking at Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front from a Historical Perspective by Tracy Gregory, November 2001
-- properly! Historians wasted little time in dubbing World War I as the "Great War." It was a conflict which
had been inconceivable a century earlier in Europe. After all, man was now armed with technological knowledge, which distinguished him from his barbaric and war-loving historical counterparts in ancient
Greece and Rome. It was believed that in the so-called civilized modern age of the twentieth century, this information would be applied to achieving peaceful initiatives. What went
terribly wrong? After the war, the soldiers who had served in the trenches of Europe put pens to paper in an attempt to answer this question, as well as
to put this war and its devastating consequences into some type of historical perspective. There had never been a conflict more widespread or catastrophic than World War I, and
no person living in Europe was left untouched. As a result, it also became the "literary war," inspiring a myriad of poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who
had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime experiences, however, they learned that the most powerful artistic expressions come from life. This war not only
left mens bodies battered, but also left their hearts broken and their souls permanently scarred. Erich Maria Remarques 1929 novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, was not only
one mans intimate view of war in all of its ugliness, but it also presented European history in a much broader context, and articulated the collective alienation of the masses,
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