All Quiet On The Western War Analysis

World War I was a very deadly war with over 100 million human casualties(deaths plus injured). Therefore war is a very transformative event for humanity, because it always affects individuals, societies, and even the world in a pessimistic way.
In the novel “All Quiet on the western front” by Erich Maria Remarque paul the protagonist just stabbed a french soldier that jumped into the same hole as paul because, they were under fire and is regretting it when he said, ¨Comrade I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, i would not do it, but you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind. ¨When paul said, ¨Comrade I did not want to kill you.¨ it is ironic because the french soldier was Paul 's enemy and

So he saw saw how war affected everyone because his job in the was was to carry the injured to get help. He saw what happened to everyone. So when he said “humanity I love you” it is ironic because at the end of the poem he said “humanity I hate you” which is a more accurate description of his feeling towards all of humanity, so what he means with this quote is that the governing leaders or every power are putting people 's lives in their pockets and then not caring so they sent them off to die in the war (WWI) because over 14 million soldiers died. They sat down and forgot that their are people dieing so they can sit down and drink tea. Just like Kat said “Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." (Chapter 3, pg. 41) if everyone got paid the same and everyone did their part then the war would be over a lot faster. Furthermore in Russia (when it was called the Soviet Union) Vladimir Lenin said, “Hundreds of billions of capital have been invested… bringing death, hunger, ruin... to the peoples.” This shows that the world was put into a crisis because of the “criminal war”. which

Then, he said, “in order to give us the weapons of instinct” as to say all the pain was worth it just so that they could survive. Later, he said, “It has reinforced us with dullness” that the pain had made them a shell of dullness that can protect them from all mental pain. After, he said, “so that we do not go to pieces before the horror” witch means so they don 't go insane from all the horrors of war. Finally,, he states, “which would overwhelm us if we had clear, conscious thoughts.” if they had their conscious thought that they had a civilians they would of died along time ago. Also, in WWI there were more than 14 million deaths and over 100 million casualty (injures plus deaths) all of these humans came from societies all over the world. They came from families that lived in societies. Almost all the comrades that a soldier had were friends from home and there were 14 million deaths. All those deaths hurt society 's because all the