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This article analyzes how the novel demythologizes the warring fantasy surrounding WWI by exposing the gap between promise and fulfillment, undermining heroic feelings, and foregrounding nationalism’s role. 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This epochmaking anti-war text is written against the context of World War I. Given this information, this article wants to project how this text demythologizes the warring fantasy that was the background for the writer and his comrades to be involved in World War I. This article argues that the established romantic warring fantasy of war and particularly World War I is demythologized through the presentation of the gap between the promise and fulfillment, disillusionment of heroic feelings in war, issue of nationalism, the psychological trauma, the mind-numbing horror of war, and the destruction of a generation of man in All Quiet on the Western Front.  \nKey Words: World War I, warring fantasy, horror of war, demythologization, nationalism  \nIntroduction  \nErich Maria Remarque (1898 – 1970), a war veteran of WW I, is one of the most widely celebrated German-born novelists. He is called the \"recording angel of the Great War”. He is famous for the anti-war sentiments in his writings. Most of his novels are influenced by his bitter experience of WW I. Remarque’s life and his novels are closely related, and through his protagonists he tries to impart a humanitarian message to his reader. His books are startlingly frank expressions of real feelings as well as vivid characters that sprang from the author’s own life. Re-creating on paper the amorphous hell of the Western Front, Remarque actually presented the atrocities, brutality, nothingness and futility of war in his famous novel All quiet on the Western Front. Remarque had achieved global success with this novel, which challenged the myth of heroic military death and focused on the \"lost generation\" that had been destroyed by war.  \nWar is a topic of literature from time immemorial. In ancient time war was presented with lofty sentiments and inflated rhetoric. Even in the literature of Victorian and Edwardian  \nperiods, war was glorified with high sounding words and presented in heroic mode. Again, like older war narratives and chants which is used to inspire warlike spirits, belligerents of the World War I also produced literature to instill the warlike spirit among the youths. Invasion and Future War literature can be regarded as a subset of more general futuristic writing that began in the 19th Century.i Many of the literary heroes have military roots. War literature of classic time is basically associated with heroism, bravery and sacrifice. War was considered as the noble deeds. And in this way, a myth is developed, warring fantasy is generated with the idealized image of war which is associated with false patriotism, honour, dignity, valour, courage, and military glory. Youngs are presented the idealized images of war. Against this myth and warring fantasy, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front unmasked  \n\n| ID: 231013 | International Journal of Advanced Research in Higher Studies\u003Cbr>[www.ijarhs.com](www.ijarhs.com) | 159 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n© IJARHS December 2023, Volume 2, Issue 2 [www.ijarhs.com](www.ijarhs.com)  \nthe fact of war that war is synonymous to death, decay, destruction, savagery and thus demythologizes the established warring fantasy. Almost every scene of All Quiet on the Western Front speaks of the meaningless atrocity, brutality, nothingness and thus futility of war. Here we find the image of multitudes of devoted, unquestioning, patriotic young men being led to senseless slaughter, betrayed by their elders. The Western Front has come to epitomize the notion of war as a vast arena of victimhood.ii The characters of All Quiet on the Western Front do not find glory in","cbCaigQasHMgrihz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigQasHMgrihz","pdf",296298,"English","# Introduction\n# Research Methodology\n# Background","[{\"question\":\"How does the article define the purpose of analyzing All Quiet on the Western Front?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how the novel demythologizes the warring fantasy that shaped the participation of the writer and his comrades in World War I.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes does the research methodology use to support the argument?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses thematic analysis and close reading, organizing evidence around key themes: the gap between promise and fulfillment, nationalism, psychological trauma, and the destruction of a generation of man.\"},{\"question\":\"What aspects of war does the article emphasize to show demythologization?\",\"answer\":\"It stresses war’s meaningless brutality and futility, the disillusionment of heroic sentiments, nationalism’s issue, psychological trauma, and the grim reality of death and destruction rather than glory.\"}]","Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front - Demythologizing Warring Fantasy | PDF",18]