Propaganda In 'All Quiet On The Western Front'

All Quiet On The Western Front exposes the cruelty of the war and hypocrisy of view as glorious. To begin with, in the beginning of the story and throughout the book, there was a lot of propaganda towards the war. The young boys who decided to go were labeled as the “iron youth” and were seen as something to be proud of, I guess. For example, the teacher says joining the war shows, “courage, strength, and love for your country.” (pg.12-13). Another way the author described the war, was by including how everyone who weren’t fighting were glorying the war. Clearly, as the story goes on it didn’t really prove or show anything other than how horrible and chaotic the war actually was. An example of this was when Paul said, “There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that there was only one way of doing well, and that way theirs. And that is just why they let us down so badly.” (Pg. 47). All in all, this just shows Remarque including the whole propaganda to

He does this by not only including the soldiers being killed but showing the innocent animals being killed. In a more summarized way to say this is he tried to show the suffering of the innocent. For example, the following soldiers that died throughout the story show how much death can cause such an affect on someone, like Albert Kropps' and death. The death that hit me pretty hard and touched me in a way was Josef Behms death. As one can see, death to close friends and family can be rough, but the author also included a scene when the men hear the wrenching sounds of wounded horses shrieking in agony. Detering is particularly horrified because he is a farmer and loves horses. He says with disgust that using horses in war is the “vilest baseness.” (pg.63). To sum up, it’s not only the death of people that can show the cruelty of the war, the killing of animals can affect certain people as