All Quiet On The Western Front: Themes
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a graphic depiction of the horrors of
war. In the short note before Chapter One, Remarque lets the reader know
exactly what themes he intends. War is a savage and gratuitous evil, war is
unnatural, and war is responsible for the destruction of an entire generat ....
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.... political ill will, or even
personal feelings.
It should be noted that the nature motif is carried consistently
throughout the novel, and that it supports many of the author's lesser themes.
For the purpose of portraying war as something terrible, though, the nature
motif is expressed most dramatically in the following passages. These passages
mark the three distinct stages of nature's condemnation of war: rebellion,
perseverance, and erasure.
The first passage occurs in Chapter Four wh ....
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