The Impact of War in All Quiet on the Western Front. The major theme of the novel dwells on the waste and emptiness of war. Thousands of lives are lost just because a few men in authority want more land and more power. Ordinary people, with valuable aspirations and dreams, are being pulled into the battle and fight valiantly, only to have a grave as a reward. War does not only destroy lives and property, …showed first 75 words of 560 total…

…showed last 75 words of 560 total…soldier fighting for the same cause. He asks in soliloquy, "Why do they never tell us that you are just poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours and that we have the same fear of death and the same dying and the same agony. Forgive me, comrade how could you be my enemy." He is convinced that the war has created a lost generation devoid of morality and hope.