Examples Of Dehumanization

Dehumanization Makes You Show no Emotion Millions of Jews had no emotion when they were getting dehumanized in the concentration camps. Night is a book about Elie Wiesel, a 15 year old Jewish boy who gets taken to Auschwitz. The memoir goes over all of the terrible things Elie experienced at his time in the camp. In Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates that when being dehumanized, there is zero emotion involved. He shows this when his father is beaten, when he watches other Jews get hung, and when his father dies.

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.

After reading Night by Elie Wiesel, I have a better understanding and empathy for Holocaust victims. The book shares the events of the main character, Elie’s experiences. Moishe witnessed crimes against Jews. Moishe and Elie both had traumatizing experiences during the Holocaust. Treatment, Dehumanization, and Witnessing are three examples of dehumanization Elie Wiesel faces at night, which changed his outlook on life.

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.

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.

Dehumanization in the novel Night, is shown through the actions observed by Elie Wiesel. One example is when he first arrives to Auschwitz and gets a number tattooed on himself, in which it robs the humanity and identification of him. Another example is when the selection process of prisoners is shown either between being healthy or not. So, if the person was deemed sick or unhealthy they would be sent to the gas chambers because the S.S. officers had no use for them anymore.

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.

In Night, written by Elie Wiesel, he illustrates the effects of dehumanization throughout this novel. This is the theme I have chosen to represent in my 3d art project. In the book, they were treated horribly as if they were not humans. This is why I decided that the best way to illustrate this theme is by depicting the prisoners as animals. Dehumanization is developed throughout the text in different circumstances and ways.

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

Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human, and therefore, unworthy of human treatment. The Nazis used this tactic to portray Jews as animalistic so that people would willingly persecute them. The Holocaust was a result of persecution. It led to around 12,000,000 innocent people being killed. Dehumanization is evident in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night.

Sentenced to a life of persecution and cruel treatment for his beliefs, a young Jewish boy witnessed his fellow prisoners terrorized and their humanity stripped away by Nazis. Elie Wiesel watched as the Nazis starved, beat, and killed the Jews, and with that slowly deprived the Jews of any empathy or compassion to the point of Jews turning on one another for the means of survival. Elie Wiesel’s Night demonstrates that violence leads to dehumanization as shown by man vs. society conflict, flashbacks, and imagery describing acts of brutality. Due to the man vs. society conflict in Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jews were persecuted for their beliefs and sentenced to a life of violence that led to dehumanization of the Jews.

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?

My chosen theme, dehumanization, has affected my thoughts about our responsibility to one another by making me realize that we are not different at all, in fact, we’re all the same. No matter what race, gender, religion, or sexual preference. We should be responsible for one another because we are all human, not wild animals. We should not have to fight over trivial things, we are all livings beings but my evidence could almost prove otherwise, these starved, beaten, and tortured men have become

It’s difficult to envision a world where idealized female imagery is not plastered everywhere, but our present circumstance is a relatively new occurrence. Before the mass media existed, our ideas of beauty were restricted to our own communities. Until the introduction of photography in 1839, people were not exposed to real-life images of faces and bodies. Most people did not even own mirrors. Today, however, we are more obsessed with our appearance than ever before. But the concern about appearance is quite normal and understandable given society’s standards. According to Jane Kilborne, “Every period of history has had its own standards of what is and is not beautiful, and every contemporary society has its own distinctive concept of the