The Lives Of Others ( 2006 ) And Barbara ( 2012 )

“To what extent is Adolf Eichmann just a bureaucratic businessman doing his job, or were his motivations composed of pure evil and murderous intent?”

Although, at the same time German SS guards still treat the workers poorly having physically and mentally worked to death. It is to show how the Germans atrociously plan their ideas to exterminate the Jews simply because they are viewed as animals. By using light and dark atmospheres, Wiesel could successfully let the reader understand his overall message.

Though fulfilling love, happiness and trust in a relationship can be comforting, couples often are unsuccessful in finding or keeping the love that their relationship need; even if issues may interfere within the relationship, couples should find a way in working through their problems. Once a couple's happiness, trust and love have been fulfilled, they can experience unconditional love. Although they would need to make every possible step to heal their relationship, if and when their relationship breaks down, there is still much they can learn. With this stated this idea holds opposing views among the two females in A Secret Sorrow and "A Sorrowful Woman."

In the beginning of the book, Wiesel tells the story of his mentor, Moshie the Beadle. Because he is a foreign Jew, the Germans chose him and others like him to be deported before the rest of the Jews. When he is deported, he witnesses the terrible slaughter of his people; moreover, his escape was entirely due to him making himself irrelevant, completely unnoticeable. “He had mastered the art of rendering himself insignificant, invisible” (3). After his escape, he attempts to warn the Jews about the nightmare that would soon become a reality.

Unchallenged authority leads to unnecessary aggression and violence. Power is extremely hard to control through one being in our human nature, so a balance of power is often the only way to rule effectively without going over the line. Power will take over and turn to aggression even toward the innocent inferiors of this world. In the novel Night, author Wiesel speaks of the extremes that unlimited power will lead to using imagery, details, and diction to outline his first-hand experiences under an overkill authority. Wiesel demonstrates his harsh days under unjust rulers through touching diction.

He shows us how the two can become very similar in bad situations such as his. One example of when this happens is when Wiesel is in the hospital. He meets a man who seems to have no will to live. He speaks very bluntly about an oncoming death and it seems like he feels he is already dead. He says, “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve… Hitler alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” (Wiesel 80-81). The man speaking so bluntly and without emotion about his own extermination really shows that he already feels dead, especially because he is in the hospital and knows that he will likely be the first to die. Wiesel’s ability to express the man’s bleak tone and readiness to die shows that he was able to teach people that sometimes the line between life and death can become blurred, and that one can feel dead even though their body is still

In comparison with the two stories and being under the government and the “World Society,” having to understand of them two and how they relate of how the society not having the freedom, being controlled by their own future. The people or the society, are afraid to prevail fear to take action and willing to do it without exception.

When we think about society there is often a stark contrast between the controversy projected in our media about the issues that our society faces and the mellow, safe view we have of our own smaller, more tangible ‘local’ society. This leads us to believe that our way of life is protected and our rights secured by that concept of society that has been fabricated and built upon during the course of our short lives. However, what if society were not what we perceive it to be, and the government chose to exercise its power in an oppressive manner? As a society we would like to think that we ourselves are above such cruelty, yet as The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera recounts the state of Cuba in the 1990’s so must we remember that all societies and governments view the individual differently as opposed to the whole. Each group has unique expectations that are enforced upon the individual goes beyond those expectations. The individual can very quickly find their rose glasses view of their society cracking before their very eyes as the reality of taking such a rise comes into view.

Jonathan Kozol, in the chapter entitled “Other People’s Children, discusses and justifies the kinds of limitations placed on children who must attend poorly funded, educationally inferior school. Kozol argues that children in the inner-city schools are not fit to go to college and that they should be trained in schools for the jobs they will eventually hold, even though these jobs are less prestigious, lowest-level jobs in society. Kozol’s argument is based on the fact that students from the inner-city or rather from the societies that do not have enough job opportunities are not supposed to learn much because their society cannot accommodate most of the courses that are often found in the urban settings. For example, there is a point where Kozol cites one of the businessman’s statement which says, ‘It doesn’t make sense to offer something that most of these urban kids will never use.’ The businessman continues to argue, ‘no one expects these ghetto kids to go to college. Most of them are lucky if they are literate. If we can teach some useful skills, get them to stay in school and graduate, and maybe into jobs, we’re giving them the most that they can hope for’ (Kozol 376). This statement clearly indicate that the society should accept the inequalities and exercise the same inequalities even in education.

The perpetrators in the book are all view differently by Funder as they all vary in levels of dedication to the GDR, Stasi and communism ideology. Despite in different levels of devotion, they all establish themselves as self-important officers who are unremorseful with their past actions. The interview with Herr Winz highlights that he was a strong believer in the system as he still lives within the past. Funder describes him as a man who still plays spy games even 7 years after the fall of the wall underlined by him hiding his identity as a westerner before the meeting Funder. A very strong believer in the GDR, Herr Von Schnitzler, was descried as “a grumpy old puppet, throwing scorn on proceedings from on high,’ as despises the current system of Germany, and still supports communism. However, both Herr Kock and Bohnsack portrayed a different character compared to the other Stasi officials. Koch was used for propaganda as a child and was described as a “poster boy for the new regime.” Despite being a part of the system since a child, Koch still became a victim, due to his resignation from the stasi, and battle in keeping his marriage intact. Bohnsack was “a man with nothing to prove,” as he was

Informers were rewarded by the construction of the wall. Their lifestyle within East Germany was advantageous, as they were secured a state of superiority and their loved ones protected. They had nothing to fear, as they were given importance and a role in the sheltered social construct that was Stasiland. Proponents of Communism like the heavily supported and respected public figure Herr von Schnitzler were proud and protective of the Iron Curtain, and believed that its construction was beneficial for the population of East Germany. This biased view of Funder that The Wall benefitted Informers as they did not have to struggle or fear the manipulation and scrutiny of the Stasi themselves is also exemplified through the character of Herr Winz. Funder senses he misses his past life as he accuses the West of propaganda, obviously implying that Funder won’t provide an objective view of GDR history: ‘I am here to tell you about the excellent work—the masterful work—of the Stasi in counter espionage. That is where I spent my life’. These men’s views, professions, purposes and very existence were defined by the wall.

Wiesel is effective with his speech by connecting exaggeration within his revelation. He questions the guilt and responsibility for past massacres, pointing specifically at the Nazi’s while using historical facts, such as bloodbaths in Cambodia, Algeria, India, and Pakistan to include incidents on a larger level such as Auschwitz to provide people with a better idea (Engelhardt, 2002). He is effective in putting together the law and society’s need for future actions against indifference by stating, “In the place I come from, society was composed of three simple categories: the killer, the victims, and the bystanders” 7.(Wiesel 223).

The bewildering and anti-human experience of a person living in a totalitarian state is likely to bring about the kind of alienation apparent in 1984. Winston, the most obvious example, is severely cut off from the outside world. Alone and lonely, he feels alienated from his family, his neighbors, and the rest of society. Even with Julia, Winston does not find someone who shares the same thoughts and opinions that he does. He hates women and children. The Party’s war against love and sex for purposes other than reproduction has succeeded in cutting off Winston from half of the human race. As a result of the Party’s oppression, Winston’s psychological and sexual life has been crippled. Winston is able to perform his duties for the Party without thought or question, but inwardly he represses every contrary or unorthodox thought in the

The short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin have many similarities, despite their different societal settings. Both of the stories contain a false display of utopia, the following of traditions, and foul treatment. For example, in “The Lottery” every year a person’s name is drawn from a box and the “winner” is stoned to death, and the townsfolk are fine with it and keep coming back. And in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Omelas is described as being a perfect society where everyone is happy, but in order for the utopia to thrive a young child is being detained and tortured and the people of Omelas just let it happen because they think that is all they can do. Therefore, in both of the stories the authors are saying that harm can be done from people blindly following tradition and that perfect does not exist because there will always be some type of evil activity being conducted.

The Communist Party is considered as a bad government. The Party which Big Brother, a head figure, leader is even worse than Communism. One of the huge differences between the two parties is the idea of torturing the people. A kind of brutal torture, not physical torture, but psychological torture and causing people live in crisis. Through psychological manipulation, the Party is able to make everything it lies become the truth that it desires. When psychological is instability, thinking about a regime overthrown is almost not possible. In 1984 by George Orwell, the Inner Party manipulates the population through torture since birth. The lives of the people are being deprived of freedoms, became a docile slave, serving an anonymous inhuman