Illussions of heroism WWI era illusions of disillusion in europe.

What better way to serve your country than with enthusiastic noble patriotism, to fight for honour and prestige to protect your nation. Only to find out with the sacrifice of your life that such a romantic ideal is an illusion. The illusions of heroic, noble and enthusiastic notions that people believed of war were destroyed quickly by reality and were demonstrated in literature of front line veterans like Remarque, Sassoon and Owen. The mass society …

…dragged on claiming soldier's lives and spirits leaving veterans desolated, not quite fitting into 'normal' society. Soldiers felt betrayed by the very people they were fighting to protect and tricked by the older generation whom did not prepare them for the reality of war. Writers such as Remarque, Sassoon and Owen would reveal peoples beliefs of the war to be illusions with their literature that described the reality of war that they experienced first hand.