All Quiet On The Western Front: Alienation
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According to the Webster's New World College Dictionary, alienation
is 1. Separation, aversion, aberration. 2. Estrangement or detachment. 3.
Mental derangement; insanity.
The theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is about how World War
I destroyed a generation of young men. It has taken from ....
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.... what side a man
is on, he is killing other men just like himself, people with whom he might
even be friends at another time.
But Remarque doesn't just tell us war is horrible. He also shows us
that war is terrible beyond anything we could imagine. All our senses are
assaulted: we see newly dead soldiers and long-dead corpses tossed up
together in a cemetery (Chapter 4); we hear the unearthly screaming of the
wounded horses (Chapter 4); we see and smell three layers of bodies,
swelli ....
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