Human In Darkness: Article Analysis

“The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world” (Arendt pg 80). Violence is contagious, like a disease, which will destroy nations and our morals as human beings. Each individual has his or her own definition of violence and when it is acceptable or ethical to use it. Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt are among the many that wrote about the different facets of violence, in what cases it is ethical, the role we as individuals play in this violent society and the political aspects behind our violence.

Elie Wiesel was a young boy strongly devoted to his faith, but it quickly dwindled as he experienced dehumanization. Throughout the novel Night, The Nazis conducted many acts of dehumanization upon the Jewish citizens. The Nazis harshly targeted the Jews’ humanity, and gradually softened their perception of being human. The inhumane treatment began in their very own town of Sighet and continued into various concentration camps they were forced into. Jews were brutalized in these camps and experienced many forms of mental and physical abuse. They were given tattoos in the camps, which was quite demeaning. They physically mistreated them, starved them and separated them from their loved ones.

The Night Drive Mr. Tabor is guilty of committing the crime of killing Bob from the filling station on that beautiful summer night. In the passage it states “Just drive on, said John Tabor in a gentle voice. Thats all. Just drive on. He killed my wife.

“Night” by Elie Wiesel explains how dehumanization occurred during a weak point in human history.

With the passing of decades, humanity has been mentioning more and more the presence of violence in our daily lives. We see it online, news, social media, it is absolutely taking over a great fragment of our lives. But is this violence aspect of humanity a recent thing? If we take a look back to earlier human civilization, there has always been a violent essence in the way we think and act. The main focus of this essay is to discuss, and compare 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup to The Things They carried by Tim O’Brien.

Cruelty: A Human Instinct? In his final novel, inspired by his own personal encounters with the cruelty of the human race, Peter Matthiessen exemplifies to us that, “All nations, he continues, and all religions, cultures, and societies throughout history have perpetrated massacres, large and small: man has been a murder forever” (203). Such experiences have led him to write this novel based on the cruelty of some races or ethnic groups, solely on the premise that history has a way of repeating itself in the most derogatory ways. Peter Matthiessen, a strong environmentalist, a frequent practicer of Zen Buddhism, and a former CIA agent is widely known for his deep interpretations of his views in works of both fiction and nonfiction.

Human nature can be analyzed through feelings, characteristics, and behavior. Humans are capable of expressing different emotions such as hate, frustration, remorse, happiness and other emotions depending on the situation they are encountering.Various aspects of human nature can be observed through many forms of media. Often times humans are portrayed in a negative way, however there are certain cases where they are portrayed positively, like in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. Evil acts, discrimination towards others, and perseverance for survival, are all apart of human nature.

In his Wall Street Journal essay, “Violence Vanquished,” Steven Pinker claims that contrary to perceived notions of increasing violence and turbulence in the world, "brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise.” Pinker establishes this argument through numeric comparisons of death tolls, genocides and other aggressive perpetrations in modern society with those in prehistoric times. He credits the fall in these quantifications of “violence” to the processes of pacification, civilization, humanitarian revolution, Long Peace, New Peace and the rights revolution that have together created an environment conducive to “our better angels.”

In the night one is frightened to try to determine whether one should undergo the perception of being fearful and unattended. To be hopeful and wanting to get through the position one is in during war and the separation of loved and dear ones. This is the darkness and negativity affecting people who may have been in the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, portrays such graphic and traumatizing experiences one may have gone through in the holocaust. Which establishes night and darkness as a key subject to focus on throughout the book, it may be used metaphorically or literally in such context. A theme that may be used is, to lose one's consciousness and ones self worth may also lose their humanity and feelings when going through traumatic

As most people would agree, the 20th century contained some of the bloodiest and most gruesome events ever recorded in history. Why do words such as Hiroshima, Rwanda, The Final Solution, A Great Leap Forward, The Great Purge and so many more spark such vivid images of blood, torture and murder in our minds? And despite those horrific images, what is it that causes us humans time and time again to commit such crimes against humanity? Those are the kinds of questions Jonathan Glover, a critically acclaimed ethics philosopher, tries to answer in the book he had spent over ten years writing, Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century. Through Humanity Glover tries to answer those questions in a way which will give a solution as how we can

On Saturday October 22 I headed with a group of friends to Stanley Park, to join ‘Light The Night Vancouver’. It’s a fundraising event that helps to make a difference in the lives of Canadians affected by blood cancer. This paper will be based on my experience as a target of influence.

The history of human nature has been bloody, painful, and even destructive. Nonetheless, before understanding their environments humans used to kill each other based on their own mindset on the ideal of violence, and what it actually meant. Pinker describes narratives of violent acts from the past, that today are foreign to us. He gives us a tour of the historical human violence and how the violence in human nature has changed throughout time. The main idea from Pinker’s book,“The Better Angels of Our Nature ', is “for all the dangers we face today, the dangers of yesterday were even worse.” He provides its readers with explicit violent stories beginning from 8000 BCE to now, and describes how violence has evolved from a blood lost to more of a peaceful existence.

Some matters do not exist by its own but there are always some factors which give them existence. Human beings are born with rights, passions, interests, feelings, incredible characters and the most intelligent creature on the earth. But, unfortunately, these human beings have become diffident and victims of their own huge development and inventions. The new discoveries are happening constantly somewhere around the globe but the history never forget the past histories. One such example is Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. This thesis reveals that United States military police serving as protectors at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq abused, tortured, raped, and murdered prisoners. This behavior can be understood sociologically as a consequence of the socially constructed reality manufactured by U.S. government officials. This experiment was supposed to schedule for two weeks but was stopped after only six days due to unnecessary and extreme mental and physical exploitation and the effects on the prisoners by the protectors.

In the article titled, “The spirit of Terrorism”, by Jean Baudrillard, 2001, He captures the notion that “evil is everywhere and is an incomprehensible object of desire” (pp.1). He further went on to explain that war is horrific and demeaning to humanity but it has its contribution. Furthermore, war ended, European supremacy and the colonial era, Nazism and Communism. I support this argument, there is evil all around us, lurking in wait. Many would argue that with war comes great suffering and pain, lost of lives, years of civilization has been wiped out with just a bomb and individuals who survive war are often emotionally, physically, and psychological damage. For example, when the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. To rebuild a country to its original state after a war takes years but there is just cause for war. Hence, in the context of war done to achieve what is deemed as the greater good, we can draw on the example of eliminating Nazism, European reined and the fall of Sadam Hussian. Indeed, many innocent people lost their lives but the consequences of war are bloodshed and suffering.

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