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All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque Some people argue that the benefits of war outweigh the costs. Discuss this view in relation to the novel.
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All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque Some people argue that the benefits of war outweigh the costs. Discuss this view in relation to the novel. Whether a war is worth fighting for is a hard question to answer. There are many factors that make a person either believe that it is beneficial or not. In one person's opinion, such as the victor, it may be worthwhile but for another it may be a pointless loss of life's beauty. All Quiet on the Western Front demonstrated how the horrors of conflict slowly destroyed the men and left them with painful memories. It presents war as being a futile struggle that made men lose hope and showed war as not actually beneficial when compared with the cost to the people involved. War for the people fighting was an entirely different concept to that of the political man or woman. The political leaders that...
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