Fighting in World War II in Reflection to Paul Fox and His Friends and Remarque’s Desire

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Fighting in WWII in reflection to Paul and his friends
Introduction
War confers different things on young soldiers, learning the true meaning of living a fearful life. The war process provides the opportunity for the young soldiers to test their capacity for courage, limits to human endurance on the physical and mental front. Many of these young soldiers survived the wars with deep physical or emotional wounds. They lost friends, careers and sadly, there was a complete disruption of most of their family plans(Fox 249). During the prime periods of their lives that they would have otherwise anticipated joyful rites of passage in graduations, weddings, and parenthood, instead, they felt lonely, uncertain, disabled and pessimistic concerning the future. The “Lost generation” term refers to the aspect that even though their lives appeared physically speared, many felt very lost and had no connection between their past and present. In this case, the word lost as applicable by psychologists, refers to the condition of feeling disoriented, directionless, and wandering haunting survivors of horrific wars.
Soldiers as a lost generation
The war that consumes the strength of the young men, especially those who fought in WWI, generates some sense of heroism as well as trauma post-war (Fox 252). This is true since postwar discourse majorly revolved around the theme of heroism and trauma that revealed the existing voids alongside contradictions relating to politics of shame. The discourse on heroism may be attached to the achievements attained by these young men on a selective basis. However, the associated dangers of anxiety disorders that relate to the wars are also very eminent. The soldiers are referred to as the lost generation due to the post-war effects that rendered the majority immobile and even ineffective for the rest of their lives. Different psychological trauma clouds their experiences from the stressful incidences making the trauma manifest in the symptoms relating to anxiety disorder. Some of the major effects entail irritability, headaches, and fatigue, amongst other aftermath effects.
The entire losses on the young soldiers manifest in the form of unconscious conversation that eventually affects their entire sense of speech. In such cases, the young soldiers were rendered paralyzed in many aspects (Fox 251). In matters related to post-traumatic stress disorder, the young soldier experiences persistent images of traumatic events alongside nightmares that interfere with their normal lives—the effects associated with insomnia, including irritability and some form of depression, mares their day-to-day experience.
Despite Paul dreaming concerning his life before the war, the dominant thought is that returning to it is a nightmare. The entire generation was rendered “lost” by the war, which means that these soldiers were negatively affected physically and unable to readjust to normal lives (Fox 253). Their experiences in the war field permanently transform them to the extent of feeling completely out of place within their former village environments. For instance, Paul’s childhood interests in art and literature as represented by t...