1. Why All Quiet On The Western Front Will Be A Superior Movie
Rat infested trenches, constant mud, always wet, and dead bodies are a common sight. ... Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead it is a dammable business, but what has it to do with us now - we live. (124-125 All Quiet on the Western Front) This quotation also shows how the narrator is becoming more and more desensitized by the war. ...
Introduction J.R.R Tolkein's fantasy world of Middle Earth, the setting for his The Lord of the Rings epic tale, seems to be much more than mere fantasy. Its roots run deep in actual history, and upon examination, the paralleling lines become clearer. Much of the historical basis for this ta...
Unable to get back to his side until nightfall, Paul was forced to sit next to the dead body for the full day. ... This is the first point where anyone has been able to see the dead up close like this, and is really one of the most dramatic scenes we have seen in class at all. ... Everything that Paul had was taken from him yet the officers just call Kat's number and add it to the list of the dead. ...
And you could always tell whether it was a dead Jerry or a dead Tommy. ... It was often difficult to remove the dead and this led to large colonies of rats emerging which fed on corpses and the rations. ... One can joke with a wounded man, one can disregard a dead man, but no one can joke over a man who takes three hours to die after the top of his head has been taken off by a bullet fired at twenty yards range if we go back home we will be broken, worn out, rootless, without hope. ...
This poem is employed as a monologue in which a soldier struggles with the memory of his now dead friend, who he will never see again. The letter is sent to a dead soldier's girlfriend and describes the horrific remains of the soldier, depicting resentment towards participating in the war. ... Additionally, his description of the dead soldier symbolizes a mind that's becoming less stable and sane, "You would not know him now" "Cover him, cover him soon!... The poems dominating idea is memory and how the dead are remembered. ... The dead soldier represents Will Harvey, ...
The next lines portray an image of repetitiveness and uselessness: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats" feet over broken glass In our dry cellar The consecutive use of the word "dry" conveys a feeling of deadness. ... Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom Let me go nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear deliberate disguises Once the poet has experienced dream's kingdom the desire to live in Paradise is much stronger than his desire to remain a member of a "dead lan...
Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York, NY: Henry Ho...
They do not pay attention to the person dead in the boots all they want is a nice pair of boots that will not rub their heels and that keep water out as much as possible. ... There is no report on the front because Paul along with everyone else is dead and there is no one left to report back. ...
In the eighteenth century commanders lined their men up and charged one another until almost every soldier was dead, to World War 1 where digging and "living" in the trenches with rapid-fire machine guns, bombs, and flame-throwers was dealt with every single day, night, and hour until the battle was won or lost. ... In his grief, Paul checks the dead man's for identification so that he can find out the deceased's name. ...
When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. ... The first stanza of Futility describes someone of authority (maybe a General) ordering his men to move the dead soldier into the sun, he believes the sun has woken him once before so it can do it again, "Move him into the sun, Gently its touch awoke him once," but the sun is not shining today; it is snowing as the poem tells you its location, "Always it awoke him, even in France, Until this morning and this is snow," The ...
He uses "blood-shod" to show that the soldier's feet were caked in blood, due to them having lost their boots from being trapped in the mud - walking through the trenches bare footed across sharp stones, grit and dead bodies, and also to show how weak their feet were with all the walking they had to do through the trenches. ... As the flares lit up the sky, the flares marked the position of dead or injured soldiers. ...
The summer of 1914 also marked the beginning of a four year battle that would leave over "nine million dead and over twenty million wounded" (Axelrod, 20). ... The breath of desire that then arose from the colored backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. ... "We are insensible, dead men, who through some trick, some dreadful magic, are still able to run and to kill" (116). ...
The aims and methods of the League of Nations between 1931 and 1935 The League of Nations was formaed after the countries that had been involved in the first world war decided they needed an alternative way of solving international problems to avoid another war. The league's main aim was to keep...
Describe the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and explain why the Germans disliked it so much. The First World War displays the disastrous effects caused by conflicts between countries. Millions of people were dead or injured and countries such as France and Belgium were devastated. The great po...
Before World War one the perfect war tactics were cavalry charge with foot soldiers following. But with technology advancing and producing new weapons such as machine guns and heavy artillery, World War 1 was to become a war to change all wars. To battle these knew types of weapons, armies had...
After 4 years and an estimated 37 million people dead, 20 million people wounded World War I finally came to an end. World War I ended in November 1918, and the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. How did the Treaty of Versailles help start World War II? The Versailles Treaty helped ca...
Even now, after being dead for years, the controversies over Rasputin's death still remain unanswered. ... Rasputin's death was also controversial like his life, able to resist the cyanide poison effect, and the bullet attack, the autopsy of his dead body revealed that he was alive when he was thrown into the frozen Neva River. ...
The movie on Gandhi is based on his goals, works, his looks, and his beliefs. The movie begins in South Africa and ends in India. He was the hero of millions of people in India. Throughout the whole movie, Gandhi is fighting for equal rights of Indians in India. Also fights for freedom from B...
There are many similarities between World Wars One and Two, one of the main similarities being surprise. No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. Before WWI, almost all the wars involved mainly two to three countries ...
Dulce et Decorum Est When this assignment was given I was not sure which piece of literature was my favorite. I looked at the titles on the syllabus and I remembered how much I enjoyed "Dulce et Decorum Est" written by Wilfred Owen. After reading "Dulce et Decorum Est" the first time I found it...
There are many similarities between World Wars One and Two, one of the main similarities being surprise. No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. Before WWI, almost all the wars involved mainly two to three countries ...
Lascelles Abercrombie was a noteworthy playwright and poet. He was the least known of the four Dymock Poets (Ourworld, 1). This group of poets consisted of Robert Frost, Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Wilson Gibson, and John Drinkwater (Wikipedia, 1). This group of writers an...
The early twentieth-century was full of political tension. Europe's great powers were progressively coming to standoffs over acquiring new colonies. At the same time the Ottoman Empire was slowly crumbling. Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Serbia became independent affecting the balance of power in Eu...