Comparing Dante's Inferno And All Quiet On The Western Front

Whilst The Inferno is a divine book set in another world and All Quiet On the Western Front is placed in reality, both characters must face many intense, hellish struggles. Enduring great torment and pain, Dante continues on his jourThroughout time there have been countless novels about the struggles and conflicts of man and how a hero overcomes these challenges. Best novels of their times, All Quiet On the Western Front and Dante’s Inferno have many similarities as well as differences. While both characters must endure many struggles, Dante becomes successful in his journey and Paul does not, All Quiet on the Western Front also uses the anti-hero opposed to the hero in order to push the idea of the great loss and death in the war. ney. However at the end he was able to discover “Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, where we came forth, and once more saw the stars”(Dante 303 139-140). Being enlightened at the end of the book he is able to

move forwards toward his end destination of heaven and to being united with his love Beatrice. This makes the painful journey one of growth and allows him to grow as a character through his experiences. However Paul and his comrades endured hell only to experience more pain and suffering later, and to have it all end in death. They were told by the older generations war was spectacular and “In [their] minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. Bit the first death [they] saw shattered this belief” and revealing the true nature of war (Remarque 12).
Dante, a story of struggle and success ends with a triumphant hero moving on to new challenges and adventures.

Enduring throughout hell, he is able to grow and become better, confronting his weaknesses. Both Dante and Virgil end successful in their journey, the heroes of the story, reaching enlightenment. A darker tale, All Quiet On the Western Front tells a different story, one of an anti-hero. A story in which the character must struggle and grow, facing many horrific challenges similar to those of Dante. However, instead of reaping the rewards of the struggle and becoming victorious, the hero fails and perishes at the end of the story. Remarque is able to use this storytelling technique in order to prove his deeper point of the horrors of war, and that majority of soldiers were forced to travel through hell achieving all but a mournful tale. Although Remarque does not make the hero’s demise unknown, the reader will still be moved when Paul “[falls] forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping”(Remarque

296).
As some of the greatest novels of all time, All Quiet On the Western Front and Dante’s Inferno have many similarities and differences. Both heroes encountering many challenges, however Dante becomes successful, reaching enlightenment whilst hist counterpart Paul suffers and dies. Both great novels, All Quiet On the Western Front and Dante’s Inferno have many similarities and differences, however one thing is for certain, which is the fact that they both made a great impact upon the society which they were written for.