The Theme Of Insanity In Elie Wiesel's Novel '

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he was faced with inhumanity. In the story he tells us about it. “Over there. Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them?(Yes, we saw the flames) Over there, that’s where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still don’t understand? Don’t you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!”(Wiesel 30). They were telling them that they were going to throw them in the fire so they could burn but they didn’t know that was going to happen. As the author describes his experience, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book

Over 18.2% of the adult American population has been clinically diagnosed as insane. Insanity Is a large concept to understand. It can make anyone diagnosed do things that their full body is not aware of. It can also get people out of certain situations like a court case. In court if one are diagnosed as insane, one would get sent to a mental asylum instead of a prison. This way the person diagnosed can be taken care of. In the recent case of the slenderman stabbing, that has lasted four years, Anissa Weier was sentenced to an asylum instead of being sentenced to prison, for she was diagnosed insane. If Mary Moloney was in court for the murder of her husband, she would be in a mental institution. In lamb to the slaughter, by Roald Dahl, Mary Moloney over reacts and kills her husband using a frozen leg of lamb. Mary had killed Patrick, her husband, because she had received bad news, but the audience does not know what the news is. In Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney portrays insanity because she overreacted and killed her husband, Talked to herself and laughed at her husband’s death and changed moods in the blink of an eye.

She had also lost faith and from what Wiesel had said, “ she was quiet woman, who worked to support her family.”(Wiesel 22). Since Madame Schachter had been separated from most of her family, except one of her sons, she was slowly driven to insanity. Many of the Jews had thought that she was insane because she would scream that she could see a fire and that it was a terrible one. When everyone was told to get off of the train that brought them to Birkenau, Madame Schachter had stayed on the train with her son and were most likely killed. It was later thought that Madame Schachter was not losing her mind, but having visions of the crematories where many Jews would soon

"Night" by Elie Wiesel is "A slim volume of terrifying power" (The New York Time), the novel is concerning the tragic events that occurred during the Holocaust. The first section of the memoir raises an internal conflict, regarding the Jews of Sighet being ignorant about the terrifying events that are occurring outside their small town. This conflict is created when Moishe the Beadle escaped from the Gestapo and returned to Sighet to warn the Jews of the crisis, which is happening right under their noses. This is shown in the following quote, "he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story" (7), despite warning his community of the dangers that are progressing towards them, the Jews of Sighet ignored him and did not believe Moishe. The ignorance of the Jews is shown when

“Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps. The trees were in bloom. It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births” (8).

The significance of this passage is magnificent in "Night." Specifically, when Idek begins to beat Elie's father, his father dodged the attacks at first but then "seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning" (Wiesel 54, pdf). This quote is significant because it's a simile that explains the situation Elie's father is in; he is compared to an old tree because they share many similarities. Elie's father is withered, too weak to move, and fragile, but can still find the strength to live. Idek represents lightning since he attacked Father swiftly, dangerously, and unpredictably. There is also the change in character in Elie when his father was getting beaten up by the second. Elie could have gone to stop the kapo, but he was, in

His personality is changing. Elie also deals with constant beatings and witnesses terrible actions taken on other human beings that no one should see. This would harden anyone and turn them into a brute. Elie also shows his changed personality in the final chapters of the novel. Elie is looking for his father in the final camp and says “only if I didn’t find him, what a relief it would be”. Even though later Elie feels ashamed for his evil thoughts, he again shoes a brute characteristic. He is portraying that it would be much easier to survive in the camp without his father being a nuisance and burden to him. The events that Elie witnessed shaped him into a brute. Dehumanization is also a constant theme in Night, a prime example of this is when they arrive at the camps, “Men to the left, women to the right”. In this quote they treat them as if they were a heard of animals being lead to a slaughter house, these were women and children and loved ones being split up permanently. Another example in the book is when the Jews in the camps came across the crematoriums. “A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children.

Imagine that a group of people came up to somebody and started treating that person terribly. These group of people do not treat the person as a normal human being,but instead treats the person as a lower individual. While some may claim that oppressors dehumanize their victims for more dominance, but others claim that they dehumanize their victims for satisfaction. Despite the multiple reasons of why oppressors dehumanize their victims, is that dehumanizing people is still a horrible action. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, there are many scenes where the oppressors dehumanize their victims. There were dozen of moments where the oppressors had dehumanize their victims for many despicable reasons. By many horrible

In the preface to the book, Elie Wiesel says, “I do not know, or no longer know, what I wanted to achieve with my words.” Based on the reading experience, what does Wiesel achieve in this book? Use specific evidence from the text to support the answer.

The word insanity means the state of being seriously mentally ill. This theme shows you a vivid description on how many people lose their minds and how the world can be cruel during the Holocaust. In the story Night, the author mentions Elie and Mrs. Schächter which were the two characters that were mostly affected by all of the events.

People all over the world are suffering or in danger and no one is helping. In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel describes what it felt like to be a part of the suffering and devastation of the Holocaust. Similar to Wiesel’s memoir, Martin Niemoller’s poem, “First They Came For The Communists”, expresses the feelings the author possessed in the time of the Nazi invasions. Lastly, Elie Wiesel’s speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” discusses how indifference can be adverse. All of these texts represent how speaking up for one another can be helpful and ignoring what is going on in the world can be detrimental. All people should be obligated to aid and assist others when they are in dangerous situations because bystanding only causes more

Since the beginning of literature itself, many stories have contained decisions that characters make which can completely go against what a society could be considered moral or immoral. For example, when Snow White ate the apple from the Evil Queen after the 7 dwarfs warned her about strangers or when Harry kept making Dumbledore drink the potion even though he it was hurting him because they had to get the Horcrux to defeat Voldemort. i, Robot is another story where many characters are seen making many difficult moral decisions. Some examples include when Powell risked his life to save Speedy and Donovan (Pgs.53-54) and when Dr. Calvin destroyed Herbie out of her own anger and spite. (pgs.133-135)

Dehumanization and brutality first appears when they first leave for the camp on the train. Once they get on the train, they were told that if one person were to go missing, “they will be shot” (24). Not only would they just be shot, but they would be “shot, like dogs’ (24). The SS officers were putting them against each other, choosing their own life was worth more than the lives of the other Jews. Furthermore, they were dehumanized by being separated by gender. “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (29), these words rang in Elie’s ears. For Elie, “that was the moment when [he] left [his] mother” (29). Separating them was separating families as well. The “eight simple, short words” (29), Elie heard struck his whole

Simplistic complications that add up to mere first world problems can seem to be microscopic road bumps, or they can measure up to unconditional acts of evil on mankind. Megalomaniacs, who find pleasure through sadism, can only make most of those issues worse. While there is a difference between breaking a nail and dying, the potential for true malevolence is still existent in both. Although it may seem that corrupt actions cannot bring out righteousness, that is not quite the case. At the same time, closing down a chain restaurant may not sound like a significant moment to someone who has undergone unspeakable suffering, but it could be the equivalent to the apocalypse for another. In Elie Wiesel’s Night and Last Night at the Lobster

Night takes place during the time period of World War II. The story features a boy named Elie and his father. The two men witness horrible crimes against humanity in the concentration camps, living under the bitter rule of the Germans. The Germans treat the Jews with extreme harshness by shaving their heads, forcing them into a poisonous gas room and giving them hardly any food. I chose to discuss the topic of inhumanity because it is the most prominent idea exhibited throughout the novel. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he displays how man’s humanity toward other man can have a cruel affect a person’s life through the usage of characterization, imagery and setting.