FREE ESSAY ON ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

In All Quiet On The Western Front, the soldiers were forced to suppress their feelings. It
was these emotions that made the soldiers human. Because of the cruel horror and the
reality of war, and to survive, the soldiers were forced to become inhuman. They were
forced to bury their emotions, their humanity, and their faith. If they did not suppress
their emotions, the war would be too painful for them to survive. Paul and the others
were forced to become inhuman. Thinking of the transformation, Paul said on page 191,  We
are soldiers, and only as an afterthought in a strange and shamed faced way are we still
individual human beings. The war had taught them in order to survive, they had to become
soldiers, no longer human beings.