Nowhere in the novel is there a happy thought of war, it is constantly being shown as a destructive route to go. This portrayal of war in a negative light is highlighted by including the words slaughterhouse in the tittle. The slaughterhouse is the location where animals are slaughtered, the parallel between this and the tittle is that the book promotes the idea that war is an unnecessary route and only leads to the slaughter of humans. The tittle of the novel also reflects the major motif of Death. Death is embedded in every chapter and is used to show the destructiveness of a war.
Chapter 4 Main events Introduction of the word Conrad: One of the biggest events of this chapter is the introduction of the word Conrad. The narrator talks about the snipers and what will happen to them when they are discovered. He continues on to say “ He will utter that magical word, Conrad; then we will strike him down”. The word Conrad means friend, the Germans are in the exact same situation as them; so the word Conrad shows that they are equal and when used in battle they surrender. However, we learn that the word has no meaning to the soldiers as they would kill the sniper and any German soldier.
The hunt symbolizes the maximum level of chaos because they will be trying to kill the creator of order. All hope of order could be completely lost. Chaos, to the point of taking a human life, shows how far its grasp has reached. Chaos now filled most of the island, order seemed completely lost. William in his classic novel Lord of the Flies successfully used symbols to create a powerful theme of order versus chaos.
All Quiet on the Western Front was banned and burned in Germany along with hundreds of other books with similar themes. And since war was a way of gaining power for Hitler he thought his best choice was to just burn them in public so they can be considered a joke.In 1938,
Quinn Huston Research Paper #2 Professor Tangdal 4/23/13 Witnessing Evil “Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I don’t want to confront him. I know he’s real. I have seen his work.” (McCarthy, 2). The character Sherriff Ed Tom Bell from Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men” often speaks of dealing with evil in his line of work. The book deals with Anton Chigur, a murderous lunatic who kills anyone who stands in his path or whomever his own personal code dictates he must kill.
Saving Private Ryan “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind” –John Fitzgerald Kennedy This quote by Kennedy contributes well to the theme of war is hell. Saving Private Ryan does a fantastic job on demonstrating why war is not what we think it is. When the movie came out, for the first time it showed that war is a lot worse than what previous movies portrayed it to be. The audience is taken on a journey with a group of men risking their lives to save a child of a woman whose other kids have died in action. We see these men facing extreme dangers and through all of this the theme of “war is hell” is portrayed very well.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell were written by men who witnessed war first hand on a global scale. Disturbed and frightened by what they saw, Huxley and Orwell both went on to write powerful pieces that illustrated their visions and fears of our future. By using carefully selected diction and imagery to illustrate their ideas, these men agreed that there would be a day when power would fall into the wrong hands, and future rulers would enslave the world to abide by their ideas and beliefs. Thus wiping out any form of democracy and voice. Great examples of this is when Orwell uses imagery to describe the Big Brother(much like Nazi Gestapo) and when Huxley uses imagery to describe the control of children and their births.
When looked into deeper, this book portrays the war to be determined by power hungry leaders and citizens having no word in it. This book shows not only the governments role in the war, but what the government is doing to these innocent people. They put them out there to fight in desert-like conditions, rain, snow; then kill animalisticly. Not only does the government send these people out to die, they make it sound okay by telling them that they were doing their country a favor. Nationalism is a great thing; when you use it the correct way.
David Zheng Mr. Gutmann AP literature November 27, 2012 The Impact of The First Person Narrative Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a fictional account of the Great War, articulates the individual’s struggle against overbearing forces outside of his realm of control. The various countries involved in the complex war, especially Germany, blindly lodge into a conflict so grand that a “lost generation” conceives. The corrupt yet patriotic members of the older generation in Germany impose their fatalistic ideals on the younger generation, which inevitably crumbles under the gruesome nature of war. In the wake of the soldiers walks death, which garners fear in them to the extent of taking up violence as a means to extinguish it. Remarque employs the first person narrative and allows readers to follow the accounts of Paul Baumer, an
Hunger for complete control and raw power makes for inattentive leaders who make unwise decisions due to the ignorance of the important problems. Adolf Hitler, for example, made the wrong choices when it came to WWII and his distraction led to the downfall of his empire and the victory of the war by the Americans. He became obsessed with creating a perfect society, and in doing so he created the biggest genocide the world has ever seen- The Holocaust. Hitler was obsessed with making sure that everyone was a follower of his rule, and anyone that went against what he said was executed. The same is true in the novella Animal Farm, when Napoleon ruthlessly slaughters many animals because he is under the impression that they are in cohorts with is enemy, Snowball, and are sabotaging his rule by committing crimes that Snowball has told them to