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Animal Instinct in All Quiet on the Western Front
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Animal Instinct in All Quiet on the Western Front English A1 HL World Literature Paper 2 Ryan Patel, ID# - Word Count: 1213 words One of the most basic forms of human or 'animal' instinct is the desire to survive (Winston 1); it drives human beings to endure actions which they would normally never have taken or seen acceptable. This animal instinct emerges mainly as a last resort, when an individual is put into a position in which the only means necessary to survive requires the individual to deny reason and by any means survive. Similarly, in Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front characters show their animal instinct in times of peril. The first example which shows one of Remarque's characters reverting to their animal instincts is when Paul murders Gerard Duval. Paul is trapped in the midst of a battle and Duval stumbles into the same crater as Paul, faced with...
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