What is Theme FUTILTY OF WAR in  the Novel: All Quiet On the Western Front?
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All Quiet on the Western Front sets out to portray war as it was actually experienced, replacing the romantic picture of glory and heroism with a decidedly unromantic vision of fear, meaninglessness, and butchery. In many ways, World War I demanded this depiction more than any war before it—it completely altered mankind’s conception of military conflict with its catastrophic levels of carnage and violence, its battles that lasted for months, and its gruesome new technological advancements (e.g., machine guns, poison gas, trenches) that made killing easier and more impersonal than ever before. Remarque’s novel dramatizes these aspects of World War I and portrays the mind-numbing terror and savagery of war with a relentless focus on the physical and psychological damage that it occasions.
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It means the story of the novel is set in on basic element. Everything that’s happening leans into one specific part of the story
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I don't need 3 or 4 pages. What distinguishes World War One from all previous conflicts was that it was what we call a "Total War". That meant that not only were ALL citizens from the belligerent countries fair game for destruction, but all citizens were expected to contribute to the way effort in any way they could. There were no rules of gentlemanly conduct and no limits to what either side could do. It was a contest between the maximum force of one side, and the maximum force of the other side, hence, Total War.
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A number of boys crash land on a desert island, amid rumours of an atomic war. The first two characters to meet are the athletic, somewhat heroic Ralph and a bespectacled, fat boy known only as Piggy, who use a conch to call the other boys to them from across the island. One other potential leader arises from the boys - Jack, who had been leading a choir. Ralph, in fact, is elected as leader, and early on the book is full of optimism of what the boys expect to be fun. This is reflective of Ralph being a kind, democratic character, and Piggy his less popular, but intelligent back-up.\n\nLord of the Flies contains many themes and symbols. The characters are often seen as representing different parts of society:\n\nRalph represents democracy as he is leader by a democratic vote, and attempts to please the majority. \nJack represents totalitarianism as he does not appreciate the results of the election, eventually seizing power in a coup and ruling alone. He also represents the anti thesis of democracy, dictatorship. Everyone must abide by set rules and he shows a distinct disrespect for the conch and its associations. \nAnother theory is that Ralph and Jack represent the Superego and the Id, respectively. The logic behind this is that Jack seeks to immediately satisfy the needs and act on instinct, fulfilling the description of the Id, while Ralph adheres and upholds the social norms of society. Examples of this are both positive and negative. The positive being democracy and teamwork, while the negative being mockery of societal oddities, such as Piggy being obese, wearing glasses and having asthma, or "ass-mar." Also, he blatantly ignores Piggy's request that he not call him Piggy in front of the others. \nJack being the head choirboy and the most savage can also be symbolized as a fallen angel, i.e. Lucifer. \nPiggy represents rational thinking as he is logical but unpopular, and eventually Ralph comes to realise how much he depended on Piggy and his logic. Ralph admits this with "I can't think. Not like Piggy." \nThe choir boys represent the Nazi SS unit(not the army); they do what Jack tells them and use majority force to keep power. \nSam and Eric represent the masses as they are impressionable, and tend not to think for themselves. At several points in the book their behaviour mimics that of dogs. \nThe 'beastie' represents propaganda and irrational fears, as it causes a panic and ultimately allies the boys around Jack. \nSimon represents natural goodness because he is the only character on the island that continues being good even when the other boys forget about the rules of society. Some see similarities between him and Jesus, based on the religious references around Simon: his name (that of one of the disciples), his skill with carpentry, and his killing at the hands of a group. As well, the night before Simon dies he knows he won't make it home all right, just as the night before Jesus' arrest Jesus says he will be betrayed. Furthermore, Simon's actions also allude to the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Simon was mistakenly thought of as the beast, and the beast was initially thought to be a snake. In the novel, Simon gives the littluns the choicest fruit, as the serpent tells Adam and Eve to eat the fruit. \nJack uses typical scare tactics, much like current-day governments. Even after the children kill Simon, thinking he is the beast, Jack says that the beast is still alive. He does this to keep the children scared, so they will look to him for help. \nThe glasses represent common sense, as when they break, focus and order is lost. \nThe conch represents civilization, order and democracy on the island, and it transforms accordingly as the boys transform, losing its colour gradually before being utterly destroyed. \nThe conch's white colour represents purity and innocence, which is destroyed when it is shattered. The description of the colour of the conch changes thr
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Romeo and Juliet: what are the major themes
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The song "Soldier Side", by System of a Down is about young men going off to war and never coming home.\n\n"They were crying when their sons left.\nGod is wearing black. He has gon so far\nto find the truth he's never going back."
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the moral of the story/the overall message it's related to.\neg:war,betrayal,loneliness\nhope that helped.cheerz!
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e\n  \nOne Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack) \nby Lambert-Potter, sung by Coven \n \nListen, children, to a story\nThat was written long ago,\n'Bout a kingdom on a mountain\nAnd the valley-folk below.\n\nOn the mountain was a treasure\nBuried deep beneath the stone,\nAnd the valley-people swore\nThey'd have it for their very own.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nSo the people of the valley\nSent a message up the hill,\nAsking for the buried treasure,\nTons of gold for which they'd kill.\n\nCame an answer from the kingdom,\n"With our brothers we will share\nAll the secrets of our mountain,\nAll the riches buried there."\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nNow the valley cried with anger,\n"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"\nAnd they killed the mountain-people,\nSo they won their just reward.\n\nNow they stood beside the treasure,\nOn the mountain, dark and red.\nTurned the stone and looked beneath it...\n"Peace on Earth" was all it said.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.\n\nGo ahead and hate your neighbor,\nGo ahead and cheat a friend.\nDo it in the name of Heaven,\nYou can justify it in the end.\nThere won't be any trumpets blowing\nCome the judgement day,\nOn the bloody morning after....\nOne tin soldier rides away.
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Almost all wars involve economic resorces. Ideological subplots abound, however it's mostly resources. The command economy of the Soviet Union was incompatable with the modified free markets in the U.S. and Western Europe.  The arms race was significant but it was only an extension of the economic warfare.
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ya symbolism of war, physical conflict, and all that testosterone stuff
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It is a story about a young boy who is sent to a concentration camp in WWII by the Nazis and how he endures and manages to live through it all. It is a story about the Holocaust. It is brief and is an excellent read. READ it.\n\nGood luck.
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Really don’t mind if you sit this one out.\nMy words but a whisper -- your deafness a shout.\nI may make you feel but I can’t make you think.\nYour sperm’s in the gutter -- your love’s in the sink.\nSo you ride yourselves over the fields and\nYou make all your animal deals and\nYour wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.\nAnd the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in\nThe tidal destruction\nThe moral melee.\nThe elastic retreat rings the close of play as the last wave uncovers\nThe newfangled way.\nBut your new shoes are worn at the heels and\nYour suntan does rapidly peel and\nYour wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.\n\nAnd the love that I feel is so far away:\nI’m a bad dream that I just had today -- and you\nShake your head and\nSay it’s a shame.\n\nSpin me back down the years and the days of my youth.\nDraw the lace and black curtains and shut out the whole truth.\nSpin me down the long ages: let them sing the song.\n\nSee there! a son is born -- and we pronounce him fit to fight.\nThere are black-heads on his shoulders, and he pees himself in the night.\nWe’ll\nMake a man of him\nPut him to trade\nTeach him\nTo play monopoly and\nTo sing in the rain.\n\nThe poet and the painter casting shadows on the water --\nAs the sun plays on the infantry returning from the sea.\nThe do-er and the thinker: no allowance for the other --\nAs the failing light illuminates the mercenary’s creed.\nThe home fire burning: the kettle almost boiling --\nBut the master of the house is far away.\nThe horses stamping -- their warm breath clouding\nIn the sharp and frosty morning of the day.\nAnd the poet lifts his pen while the soldier sheaths his sword.\n\nAnd the youngest of the family is moving with authority.\nBuilding castles by the sea, he dares the tardy tide to wash them all aside.\n\nThe cattle quietly grazing at the grass down by the river\nWhere the swelling mountain water moves onward to the sea:\nThe builder of the castles renews the age-old purpose\nAnd contemplates the milking girl whose offer is his need.\nThe young men of the household have\nAll gone into service and\nAre not to be expected for a year.\nThe innocent young master -- thoughts moving ever faster --\nHas formed the plan to change the man he seems.\nAnd the poet sheaths his pen while the soldier lifts his sword.\n\nAnd the oldest of the family is moving with authority.\nComing from across the sea, he challenges the son who puts him to the run.\n\nWhat do you do when\nThe old man’s gone -- do you want to be him? and\nYour real self sings the song.\nDo you want to free him?\nNo one to help you get up steam --\nAnd the whirlpool turns you `way off-beam.\n\nLater.\nI’ve come down from the upper class to mend your rotten ways.\nMy father was a man-of-power whom everyone obeyed.\nSo come on all you criminals!\nI’ve got to put you straight just like I did with my old man --\nTwenty years too late.\nYour bread and water’s going cold.\nYour hair is too short and neat.\nI’ll judge you all and make damn sure that no-one judges me.\n\nYou curl your toes in fun as you smile at everyone -- you meet the stares.\nYou’re unaware that your doings aren’t done.\nAnd you laugh most ruthlessly as you tell us what not to be.\nBut how are we supposed to see where we should run?\nI see you shuffle in the courtroom with\nYour rings upon your fingers and\nYour downy little sidies and\nYour silver-buckle shoes.\nPlaying at the hard case, you follow the example of the comic-paper idol\nWho lets you bend the rules.\n\nSo!\nCome on ye childhood heroes!\nWon’t you rise up from the pages of your comic-books\nYour super crooks\nAnd show us all the way.\nWell! make your will and testament. won’t you?\nJoin your local government.\nWe’ll have superman for president\nLet robin save the day.\n\nYou put your bet on number one and it comes up every time.\nThe other kids have all backed down and they put you first in line.\nAnd
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Here:\n\nhttp://www.bernardsboe.com/Cedar-Hill/Linked_pages/grade4/warquotes.htm
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It seems difficult to find specific information on this novel.  A few thoughts .....\n\nThe struggle to assimilate can lead to frustration.  The need to belong and bridge the gap between two cultures can cause family turmoil and tragedy and disaster.  The pervasive sense of belonging nowhere leads to disappointment and haunted lives.  Wanting to feel at home, to be home, to have a home, can be overwhelming.\n\nThese links may help.
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Caroline's Spine\nfrom the album Monsoon\n\n"Sullivan"\nIt's not hard to reach back to the day \nunderneath an Iowa sun. \nrunning to the tower of waterloo, looking \nfor the sullivan train to come. \nHis five boys would run to the top and \nsalute him as he went bye. \nFirst we'd wave hello. \nThen we'd wave goodbye. \n\nIt's not hard to reach back to the days \nafter the attack on Pearl. \nOvernight my buddies turned into men, run- \nning out of time for games and girls. \nThe Sullivan boys were not overlooked \nUncle Sam calling each by name. \nThe very next day they left on a mystery \ntrain. \n\nSay goodbye, bye, bye, Mrs. Sullivan \ndon't you cry, cry, cry, cry, cry. \n"We regret to inform you \nthe Navy has taken your sons away." \nSo put your blue star in the window. \n\nIt's not hard to reach back to her smile, \nwhen she received the letter. \nThe ltters, they sounded generally the \nsame it said: "If they coudn't \nbe home, at least they were together on a \nmighty fighting battleship, \nsomewhere in the south pacific." \nThe letters never got much more specific. \n\nSay goodbye, bye, bye, mrs sullivan \ndont you cry, cry, cry, cry, cry. \n"we regret to infrom you \nthe Navy is keeping your sons away." \nAll five, five, five, five. \nSo keep your blue star in the window. \n\nIt's not hard to reach back to the day \nwhen the war finally came home. \nUncle Sam will send you a telegram, so he \ndoesnt have to tell you over the phone. \nI heard she cracked up, when they found \nout what the war had cost, \nand all five of her boys were lost. \n\nSay goodbye mrs sullivan \ngo ahead and cry. \n"We regret to inform you that all your sons \nhave passed away." \n.....All five! \nSo change your blue star to gold.
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According to http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=1252, themes are:\n\n"Themes\n\nThe theme of this poem is that a respectful distance between neighbours is the recipe for harmonious relationships:\n‘Good fences make good neighbors’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is a farmer’s pride in the wisdom passed down to him by his father:\n‘He will not go behind his father's saying’.\n \nThe poet portrays an unusual and dour country character:\n‘like an old-stone savage armed he moves in darkness’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is co-operation between neighbours:\n‘I let my neighbour know beyond the hill’.\n\nThe theme of this poem is that country people need their own space:\n‘We keep the wall between us as we go’.\n\nThe poet explores the futility of a country custom:\n‘Oh, just another kind of outdoor game’.\n\nThe poet suggests there are mysterious forces at work in nature:\n‘Something there is that doesn't love a wall,\nThat wants it down’.\n\nThe poet shows the different types of agriculture in his locality:\n‘He is all pine and I am apple orchard’.\n\nThe theme is the way some people keep to themselves, no matter what:\n‘He moves in darkness as it seems to me’.\n\nThe theme is the mental struggle between two neighbours who appear to co-operate on a physical task while they are very different in outlook:\n‘There were it is we do not need the wall’."
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1)  Old Major warns, "Your resolution must never falter.  No argument must lead you astray.  Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest....we must not come to resemble him...No animal must ever live in a house or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade." \n\n\n2)  Orwell narrates, "Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarreling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared." \n\n\n3)  Squealer consoles the animals, saying, "Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure.   On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility.  No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.  He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves.    But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"  The classic hypocrisy seen here is too hard to miss.  \n\n\n4)  Orwell explains, "Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.  Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money— had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at the first triumphant Meeting when Jones was expelled?”  \n\n\n5)  As Napoleon was deceiving the neighboring farmers he was also tricking his own animals.  The scapegoat was again Snowball.  "Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball."  In fact many of the claims begin to sound ridiculous to the objective mind.  Of course, Squealer's mission is to keep everything subjective in the minds of the animals. \n\n\n6)  So Napoleon, with the help of his dogs, slaughters anyone who is said to be disloyal.     "...the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones."  To top it off, Napoleon outlaws Beasts of England, which had served as one of the only remaining ties between Animal Farm and old Major.  \n\n\n7)  But when Muriel reads the writing on the barn wall to Clover, interestingly, the words are, "No animal shall kill any other animal without cause." \n\n\n8)  But to justify this little episode, arrangements to amend the rules are made.  "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess."  \n\n\n9)  Orwell states, "Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs."  \n\n\n10)  The 7 Commandments are abridged for the last time, simply reading, "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."\n\nThese can all be related to the metaphors that the book embrases