Attitudes Towards the War in Regeneration and All Quiet on the Western

...no nation is rich enough to pay for both(prenominal) state of contend and civilization. We must make our choice we cannot have both.-- Abraham FlexnerRegeneration is an anti-war story, reflecting the issues and theconcerns in wartime Britain. all in all Quiet on the Western Front is also aninfluential anti-war novel and an important chronicle of World War 1.Both argon historical fiction set near the end of the war, 1917-1918.The two texts look for similar themes in condemning the war. Remarquesnovel ( on the whole Quiet on the Western Front) is a profound statement againstwar, focusing especially on the ravaging effects of war on thehumanity of soldiers. Similarly, Barker (author of Regeneration)offers true-to-life(prenominal) detail of many abominable war scenes, dwelling uponthe destruction that war wreaks upon mens minds. These detailscomprise a large heap of the novel.In all told Quiet on the Western Front, through the register of PaulBumer, a young German soldier, t here be constant attacks on theromantic ideals of warfare. The novel dramatizes the disjunctionbetween mettlesome minded rhetoric about patriotism and honour, and theactual horror of encroach warfare. Remarque continually stresses thatthe soldiers are not fighting with the abstract ideals of patriotic timber in mind they are fighting for their survival. Nothing in thisnovel makes the actual experience of war look attractive.The overriding theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is the terriblebrutality of war, which informs both scene in the novel. It sets outto portray war as it was real experienced, replacing romanticizedversions in preceding novels, with a decidedly unromantic muckle offear, meaninglessness, and butchery. World War 1 completely alter... ... large concepts ofduty, sanity, and war.Barker, with her insightful and organize writing style, succeeds inpresenting a microcosm of madness that prevails during war.Regeneration recounts many glorious war scenes, and without drawingconclusions, effectively instils a feeling of vexation against the warinto the reader.In presenting his grimly realistic version of a soldiers experience,Remarque strips away the typical romanticism of war narrative in AllQuiet on the Western Front, providing an unrelenting portrayal ofcarnage and gore. It is a novel of social protest totally rejectingthe war and nationalistic policies and in doing so, successfullydepicts the many horrors of World War 1.Works Cited Barker, Pat. Regeneration. New York Plume, 2003.Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. New York Ballantine Books, 1984.