Effects of War Exposed in All Quite on the Western Front, Bury the Dead

Effects of warfare heart-to-heart in All Quite on the Western Front, Bury the Dead, and Paths of exuberate From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not think any man loving war. Margot Asquith revealed her discontent with war in this quote. state of war is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as a concerted effort or campaign to combat or indue an abolish to something considered injurious. A rather contradicting definition from the dictionary when one examines wars accredited meaning and the effect it has on mankind. Wars do not put an end to something considered injurious, war starts them. War stems from human greed and ignorance and is often used as a tool by men to seek fame and glory. People intend the glory of Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Napoleon but forget the number of deaths caused by these so-c entirelyed heroes. Wa r is somewhat death and the destruction of the human cite and spirit. World War I, not only claimed millions of lives, but left duncical scars in the memories of those who survived. Disillusioned and disheartened, these young people became known as the bewildered Generation. Even though the cost of war was staggering, its psychological effects had no boundary. The soldiers greatest struggle during war is not physical, but mental and spiritual. A war sassy that gives its reader an insight into the lives of soldiers during WWI, All unflustered on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is considered the greatest war novel of all time. This book brings its readers into the personal life of Paul Baumer and the horrors he had to come over as a young German s... ...think about themselves, about religion, and about war. Sometimes, when a soldier gets too caught up in the war, he tries to cover his true feelings even though he is facing the biggest battl e of all with himself. Works Cited Cobb, Humphrey. Paths of repute, a Novel, Viking Press, New York 1935, new edition, Dell 1957, William Heinemann Ltd, London. Hynes, Samuel. A War Imagined The First World War and English Culture, London Bodley Head, 1991. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. New York Ballantine Books, 1984. Shaw, Irwin. Bury the Dead. New Theatre & Film, 1934-1937. Ed. Herbert Kline. San Diego Harcourt, Brace, Jovanich, c1985. Stephen E. Tabachnick, Afterword, to Humphrey Cobb, Paths of Glory (1935) (Athens University of Georgia Press, 1987), pp. 267-304.