Examples Of Dehumanization

The holocaust took the lives of six million persons, Jews, Catholics, and homosexuals. Night a memoir by Elie Wiesel was a book about the life as a Jew in the 1940’s. He explains how he suffered during the year that he was there, the camps he was at. The pain that he went thru getting separated from his mother, finding out that her and his sister Tzipora got sent to the crematorium. Life for a Jew in the 1940’s suck. Elie went thru dehumanization because of the way he gets treated in the concentration camps, from getting called dogs to being choosen like cattle.

In Night a memoir by Elie Wiesel, he uses imagery, simile, and connotation to demonstrate the effects of dehumanization and what affect it has on people.

Bullying in modern society has massively grown into one of the most atrocious crimes, as people of all ages are discriminated against their schools and neighborhoods. As Steve Maraboli once quoted, “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” His message is simple and its that you shouldn’t be quick to judge someone based on rumors or impressions. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne, a beautiful woman was publicly punished to benefit the deterring of those in her community symbolizes a “villain” in

The psychology of dehumanization is an important concept to understand before getting into specific examples of the act. Such an action goes hand in hand with war, cruelty, and genocide.

Night- Dehumanization In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel the reader will learn more about the Holocaust. A young boy named Elie Wiesel you Wiesel got separated from his mother and sister. Ellie and his dad almost survived together. Unfortunately his dad died, but elie survived.

Eliezer in Night discusses life and experiences during the Holocaust to show human desensitization and dehumanization which leads me to the conclusion that events like this should not be repeated. By desensitization Eliezer means the change of people from good to bad. Also by dehumanization he means the change of classification of people to objects or animals.

Imagine this, you are living a normal life and one day all your pride is stripped away from you and your family causing you to become dehumanized. Dehumanization is a psychological process or demonizing the enemy, making them less than human. It’s a horrible process that only a few people in the world can truly understand. For example the humans involved in the Holocaust can fully understand the true meaning because they went through it. They were everyday normal people just living their lives and in a blink of an eye, they were stripped away of all their pride everything they believed in.

What is dehumanization? Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. This can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide. How does this happen? Ever been  called selfish?

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Nazi's not only dehumanized the Jews but strip them of everything that defines them in order to control them effortlessly. Dehumanization meaning the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities. The Nazi’s enforced this by taking away all of the Jews belongings, separating them from their families, and giving them a tattoo to identify them. Every single day, over 12,000 Jews were killed in concentration camps. At the end of the World War, about 80 million people were killed in total.

The innocent Jewish children and babies are “thrown into flames.” They were also “tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns. (6)” The memoir Night retells the experience of a 15-year old Jewish boy, Elie, who spends many months in WWII concentration camps with his father Shlomo. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and many others are dehumanized both mentally and physically.

Night, by Elie Wiesel demonstrates several incidents where the Jewish people are treated like animals simply because of their religion. They were striped of their identities and reduced to little more "things". The first edict that was that was set to diminish them was the decree that "every Jew had to wear the yellow star" (Wiesel, 11). This symbol took away their uniqueness and placed them into a category in which everyone had only one characteristic, Judaism. Another incident of dehumanization against the Jews that is shown in this novel is how they are referred to by numbers. When Elie Wiesel first arrives at Auschwitz he, along with all of the other Jews in the camp are forced to get tattoos of numbers on their arms. "We were told to

In his memoir Night ,Elie Wiesel metaphor to demonstrate that dehumanization ultimately causes severe mental and physical changes in the victim.

In the Declaration of Human Rights, Article One states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,”(UN General Assembly). Elie Wiesel’s Night is a detailed memoir of the terrible crimes of the Nazis, the horrors of the Holocaust, and how this equality and dignity was stolen from Holocaust victims. Throughout this novel, Wiesel depicts the dehumanization, or the refusal to follow basic human rights, of himself and the Jewish people. By analyzing the Declaration of Human Rights as well as Night, we can better understand Holocaust victims, as well as characters in Night, and the human rights that were violated during the Holocaust, specifically: the right to an adequate

In the book Night, the author, Elie Wiesel, writes about his memories of the Holocaust. The theme dehumanization is expressed throughout the book by Wiesel’s accounts of the concentration camp. Early in the book, just after his arrival at the concentration camp, Wiesel writes, “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel, 42). Wiesel explains that as soon as they gave him that number he was no longer a person but a number. From that moment on in the concentration camp, Wiesel experienced many instances of dehumanization. While being transported from Auschwitz in cargo containers, they stopped at a train station. There were people surrounding the train watching the horrors of the spectacle, “Soon, pieces of bread were falling

Factory workers are being produced today, although the age of factories has long passed. Students are dehumanized from their first graded assignment, their first report card, the first time they step into school until they graduate. At that point, they are completely stripped of critical thinking and creativity and see learning only as memorization for a test. There seems to be no meaning beyond the face value of what teachers say and possibly less. All that is needed is to memorize word for word what the teacher says. They don’t perceive “what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance of “capital” in the affirmation “the capital of Pará is Belem,” that is, what Belem means for Pará and what Pará means for Brazil” (240). Freire introduces the banking system as the cause of dehumanization, but it is not the system in general that causes it. It is the use of grading. They are used to measure the value and intelligence of students, so this is all students focus on. They only do what they need to receive the highest marks. However, this means the students don’t have time to truly understand their material or realize that they don’t have to spend that much time with the material. After all, the purpose of the banking system is to just fill students with information.