A dark traumatic event can cause permanent changes in a person. The is quite evident in the Holocaust during WW II. Eliezer Wiesel was a jew in the Holocaust and wrote a book titled Night about his experiences. Wiesel’s torturous experience changed his outlook on his attitude towards others. When Eliezer's book begins he is a very compassionate person.
In the book Night, the first night in camp is the worst experience that happened to Elie. For example, the author knew that the camp is where his nightmare began, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night...” (page 34) This illustrates that Wiesel’s life completely changed since he separated from his mother and sister, the camp is where Nazis wanted all faiths and hopes of prisoners are gone to be able to survive in the camp you have to believe, pray and help others. Furthermore, when the narrator said one long night it’s shows that he never see the sun again, which mean Elie thought he couldn’t survive through this camp, it brought all his dreams and his family away.
In, Night there are several instances where God-fearing men were turned into selfish monsters. The cruelty shown to the Jews forced them to become cold and heartless towards one another. Elie was no exception because he had to fight for his life, lie and ultimately leave his father for dead to escape the grueling wrath of the S.S officers upon himself. Every single day alive was a blessing for Elie and all the other Jews at the concentration camp. Death was a daily occurrence, and a primary reason why the Jews became insensitive.
To begin, interactions define us when we lose faith in others. After the first night in the concentration camp, “I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames”(Wiesel 39). This quote shows us that after one night in a concentration camp, people can be changed by their interactions with others. Elie experienced and witnessed mistreatment of men, women, and children during his first night.
Wiesel gives an example of how people conformed to Hitler when he says “There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest” (pg. 100). This worker is one of the millions of people who followed Hitler and his beliefs. Treating them as spectacles to cure their boredom.
Timeline: What are the most important events that occur in the novel? 1. A short time after Elie met Moishe the Beadle and starts learning the Kabbalah from him, Moishe, and all the other foreign Jews, were expelled for their homes in Sighet. Several months later Moshe returns to the town to inform the people that the foreign Jews were not only deported but executed by the Gestapo (German soldiers).
To answer the question of “Who is the monster?” when talking about “War of the worlds” and “Monsters”, one must understand what a monster is. A monster is not simply a creature so ugly or monstrous it frightens people, it can also be defined as a person or thing who excites horror by wickedness or cruelty. This second definition establishes that we, humans, can be classed as a monster even if we do not fit the stereotypical description of what a monster looks like. This question is an important
Here, we can see how they were so afraid of losing their lives and they decided to throw all the corpses out of the train, proving that the fear makes people evil. Also we can see that the fear made people evil because they were hurting each other for no reason, we can realize that they were so desperate and scared. “I suddenly noticed that two children were engaged in a death struggle,
Rhetorical Analysis of “Monsters and the Moral Imagination” Many people believe monsters are imaginary creatures that are seen in movies or even for others, it could be a serial killer that was heard about on the news. Stephen T. Asma wrote “Monsters and the Moral Imagination” which “first appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education in October 2009” (Hoffman 61). Asma, who is a professor of philosophy, examines how different individual’s perceptions of a monster can be different depending on the era or even events happening around them. In “Monsters and the Moral Imagination,” Stephen T. Asma wrote a nonfiction, persuasive article for an educated and possibly specialized audience to examine how the idea of monsters have changed over time, what could be the motivation to create them, or even how life experiences could change an individual’s perceptions.
In a situation where your body is surviving on a thread, your stomach is inflated due to starvation and all the strength you had before is gone, you have to rely on mental and religious strength to carry you through your hardships. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie talks about his personal experiences and hardships he faced during WWII and his life at Auschwitz as a young boy. Throughout the story Elie pushes through losing his mother and sister, lashings, seeing babies burned alive and the fear of death but also the hope for it in some situations. No amount of physical strength can help someone survive in the brutal place Auschwitz. Everywhere in the story Elie and other characters show that with mental and religious/spiritual strength, you can push through any hardship you have to face.
People are often scared of monsters when they are young, but once they grow older and mature, they begin to realize that the idea was made up in their heads. However, some people are so set on the theory of there being mythological creatures that they do not think of the possibility of actual people being monsters instead. We like to believe that we live in a world where none of us are sane and our behavior is superb. When in reality, it is the opposite. We do not realize how much hatred, rape, and violence there is in the world.
With more broadcasting of evil each day, the question; “what makes a monster” is often asked. Monstrosity is the state or fact of being monstrous. Monstrous by definition can mean having a frightening opinion, extremely large, or a person who is outrageously evil. Many artists and journalist have tried to tackle the question, though two authors in particular stand out. In Frankenstein Mary Shelley uses the hideous looks of the monster along with the average looks of Victor to show her readers that monstrosity comes from within.
The fear felt for monsters and ultimately connected to desire. Jeffery Cohen has a clear opinion of this. “We distrust and loathe the monster at the same time we envy its freedom, and perhaps its sublime despair.” They are both terrifying and the heart of fantasies. This accounts for the monster’s popularity.
In Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Culture (Seven Thesis), Cohen analyzes the psychology behind monsters and how, rather than being a monstrous beast for the protagonist of the story to play against, “the monster signifies something other than itself”. Cohen makes the claim that by analyzing monsters in mythology and stories, you can learn much about the culture that gave rise to them. In Thesis 1 of Monster Culture, Cohen proposes that “the monster’s body literally incorporates fear, desire, anxiety, and fantasy”, specifically the fear, desire and anxiety of the cultures that gave rise to it;; fFor example, vVampires, undead, represent a fear of death. Monsters are born of an intense fear, desire, or internal conflict, “at this metaphorical
These creatures can have their origin in the supernatural realm or come about through ominous scientific experiments, often times the two are very hard to differentiate(cf. Hurley 192). A popular reading of this trope is the notion of repressed anxieties and desires manifesting themselves in the form of monsters (cf. Dryden 20, cf. Halberstam 9).