War made individuals emotionally lose themselves and their identity. In All Quiet on the Western Front, after the hardships of war, Paul has the ability to go home for a visit. As Paul arrives he feels lost and struggles to face war. He observes the difference between war life and his home life and realizes that war is changing him and he cannot recognize himself anymore. Paul says, “I imagined leave would be different from this. Indeed, it was different a year ago. it is I of course that changed in the interval… At that time I still knew nothing about the war, we had only been in quite sectors. But now I see that I have been crushed without knowing it. I find I do not belong here any more, it is a foreign world… Formerly I lived in just the…show more content… Many soldiers changed physically and emotionally during war because of the PTSD that they acquire. Furthermore, in the painting, The Nameless Ones by Egger- Lienz (1914), the people in the army are lost in the colors and composition. The nameless men have lost their individuality, and sink together as if they push themselves into the ground, in such a way like they are fighting war. The Nameless Ones, illustrates how war condemns each man as anonymous. The faces of the men are turned towards the ground and all the postures are identical. Everything blends together in the painting, the people with the colors, and the proportion of the army. They men look invisible. The scale in the painting makes the men disappear in the distance and look like landscape instead of people. It looks like many of them died in the distance and are not recognized. Egger- Lienz demonstrates how soldiers lose one's identity in war. He shows that by using the scale and colors which make the men look imperceptible. The chart on Document F, All Quiet on the Western Front, and they painting of The Nameless Ones demonstrates the ability to be lonely and unknown physically and
