In ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, Erich Remarque uses a variety of features to convey the true horror of war so that the readers can visualise the horror repeatedly faced by the soldiers and feel their pain and suffering. By using a retrospective...
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In ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, Erich Remarque uses a variety of features to convey the true horror of war so that the readers can visualise the horror repeatedly faced by the soldiers and feel their pain and suffering. By using a retrospective narrative through the character of Paul, Remarque is able to provide an insight into the war, capturing the shocking and gruesome events from a young soldier’s perspective. The figurative language Remarque uses are strong, horrific and emotional, that details an overall, devastating image to the readers. For example, When Paul accepts the fact that war has crushed their futures of loving ‘the world… but we had to shoot at it’, connects to the readers in a powerful way. The language such as beginning to love the world states that these boys at only eighteen years of age still had futures and goals to accomplish, however, was robbed from them by the devastating effects of war. Remarque uses these types of features a lot throughout the novel a
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