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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