In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, both the german SS soldiers and their fellow Jews act in a variety of ways to dehumanize those laced into the concentration camps.…
During the Holocaust, cruelty wasn’t something unfamiliar to the prisoners. As it is shown in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Natzies didn’t use only one form of cruelty to rule the prisoner's life. When someone talks about their experiences in the camps they never say I was never beaten or my family stayed together the whole time, they say how hard life was and how every day they had to fight the odds to live. Cruelty isn’t always a physical thing, someone can be emotionally cruel to someone else. In this book, Elie gives examples of several cruel things not only the Natzies did but also what the prisoners did to one another.…
In the book Night the main character Elie expensed many signs of dehumanization. Throughout the book the dehumanization gets worse. It goes from little things like not having a name to using people's hunger for amusement.…
People faced with cruelty still find a way to be kind. The Nazi’s targeted people who were different. September 15 1935 Jewish people were striped from freedom and from there lives due to the Nuremberg Laws. Hitler thought the Jews were the reason that Germany lost WWII, so he gave orders to build death camps and ghettos. The jews had it worse than any other criminals because only jews were sent to the death camps. The presence of intolerance can inspire people to treat others with kindness as seen in the Diary of Anne Frank.…
The breaking of the human spirit is prevalent in all periods of history dating back to the beginning of time. There is an ongoing civil war of hatred that is prominent in humanity. Despite the obvious fact that all humans should have equal rights, people still deprive each other of these simple liberties. Such as during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a horrific event where Nazis humiliated and tortured people of minorities, especially those that identify as Jewish. These people were belittled to nothing besides worthless animals in the eyes of many. The behavior of the Nazis, and their treatment toward these humans are an extreme violation in relation to the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he describes…
To be human is to have personality, unique characteristics, and freedom. The Nazis stripped Eliezer, his father, and other Jews of all these qualities. These people had families, owned businesses, and had values. Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis turned Jews from people to piles of ashes. The Nazis physically, mentally, and spiritually reduced the Jews to nothing. Two of the things the Nazis did to dehumanize the Jews was cut their hair and take away their names.…
“The yellow star? Oh well what of it, you don’t die of it...” (Wiesel 5). This dialogue from a character in the novel expresses the hardships of the Jewish populations during the early time of the holocaust. Dehumanization is when a human feels like their life is not worth anything to even be alive anymore. They feel deprived of all their human qualities. The Germans threw the Jews into harsh concentration camps. They placed sanctions on their everyday ordinary lives. If the guards felt like a person was not worth anything, they would be sent to the gas chamber or an inferno. The Germans were a harsh army that desensitized the life of the Jewish. In the novel Night, translated by Marion Wiesel he describes how a life can be dehumanized at a split second.…
During world war II, the people known as, Jews, were targeted for deportation to concentration camps and execution. The term, “Inhumanity” was expressed in many different ways during this period of time. Inhumanity can scar people emotionally and mentally. Inhumane people tend to act very cruel towards other people, animals, and the environment. In the story, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there were many merciless examples of how inhumanity was shown during World War II.…
Night is a novel written by Elie Wiesel that not only demonstrates alienation, but also dehumanization. Dehumanization is taking someone's rights away even when it has been given to them freely. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists 30 articles in which humans should obied. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel where you are not judged only by your decisions, but also by the color of your skin.…
“Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?” –Elie Wiesel. One of the most prominent themes in the novel Night is the topic of dehumanization. Throughout the Holocaust the Jews suffered the act of dehumanization, or being deprived humane treatment. From the beginning the Jews were forced to endure the horrible conditions of the Ghettos. They were killed by the thousands in the gas chambers. And some even faced wrath of Dr. Mengele and his torturous experiments.…
In the novel, "In the Heat of the Night", a murder is investigated by a negro detective, Virgil Tibs, and a team of white officers. "In the Heat of the Night" is a detective novel written by John Ball to show racial attitudes that happened in a small town in the southern part of the United States. Discrimination not only affects the main character Virgil Tibs, but also affects everyone involved in the story. Lastly, discrimination, is a negative and degrading action that clouds a person's judgement and affects everyone negatively. The following essay is about how discrimination affects a negro detective and southern whites negatively when they investigate a murder.…
In today's contemporary civilization, there is an unfailing output of dehumanization. This has resulted from the common issue of racism which our world has been dealing with for a myriad of years. Racism is defined as a discriminatory act based upon the intolerance of those from a different race. This act of hatred is often found to be based on false beliefs and is therefore considered to be extremely unjust. This theme of dehumanization is constantly seen throughout Joy Kogawa's novel Obasan in which she uses many images of animals in order to allegorically symbolize the hardships which Naomi's family is put through. These images of spiders, kittens, and especially chickens closely relate to the destitution of human beings during the outbreak of World War II.…
1. Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than "things" which were a nuisance to them. Discuss at least three specific examples of events that occurred which dehumanized Eliezer, his father, or his fellow Jews.…
Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities. When the jews went to the concentration camps they did not know what was happening because they trusted Hitler. The jews were taken from their homes and put in ghettos, then put in cattle cars. After the jews got to the camps and were immediately dehumanized, they were put into groups of guys and women and then it all started. In the memoir night by Elie Wiesel it explains how the Nazis dehumanized the jews in the camps, they took away their name and gave them number, they put them in cattle cars, and they took away their belongings.…
The word dehumanize means that someone treats another human being as less than a human being. One example is that a slavemaster dehumanizes the slave by not telling the slave their birthday. Another way that slavemaster dehumanize the slave is that slavemaster treated the slaves worse than animals. Also slave masters do not give them any freedom and take their clothes away. Frederick Douglass wrote in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass about the dehumanizing of slaves by the slavemaster that he witnessed or experienced.…