Dehumanization

Being Human Merriam-Webster Online defines “dehumanization” as, “to deprive of human qualities, personality, or spirit” (Merriam-Webster) This means that a person is denied their own personal opinions, characteristics, or dreams, in favor of another person overriding them in favor of their own or for none. Deprivation of these things separates an individual from the fact that there is a person that is being dealt with in a given situation. This dehumanization can take place for a variety of reasons,

inflicted upon the prisoners of the concentration camp by the Schutzstaffel, through dehumanization. Levi describes “the denial of humanness” constantly forced upon the prisoners through similes, metaphors, and imagery of animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization (“Dehumanization”). He makes his readers aware of the cruel reality in the concentration camp in order to help them examine the psychological effects dehumanization has not only on those dehumanized, but also on those who dehumanize. He establishes

Begin with a topic and then introduce the text...In Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein, is an example of a thorough exploration of human character, lust and desire for knowledge that is almost allegorical to mankind’s mechanization and technological evolution. Victor, the main character through which we are told a story of his past, is hungry for uncovering the unknown intricacies of human life. Creating and postponing it was his goal; however, it became a decision that destroyed his humanity in the

Dehumanization is the process of taking away all human qualities of the victim and reducing the victim to sub-human levels in the eye of the perpetrator and the victim. Alan Paton, the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, wrote an ardent novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law. Cry, the beloved Country is the heartfelt story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set in a land severed by the racial injustice of the apartheid. Throughout this novel, Stephen Kumalo encounters

experiences of trauma and dehumanization are vividly portrayed. This text explores the idea that dehumanization is (quite often) a result of trauma as it can cause a sense of detachment between the perpetrator and the victim. Perpetrators are led to feel as if they are causing harm towards insignificant or inanimate objects rather than towards other human beings while victims are made to feel as if they are inhuman objects. The memoir “Night” serves to support the idea that dehumanization is a consequence

Dehumanization "Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result and unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed" (Freire). This quote by Paulo Freire encompasses the destructive reality of dehumanization, which can be observed throughout the history of the world. This concept of removing another's humanity and dignity has left scars on the hearts of minorities who were considered to be unworthy of basic

exterminating Jews in large number due to their prominent tactic of death humanization. Dehumanization is by far, the worst technique of executing a human being. I gaped and cringed when analyzing the complications young Eliezer and his father had to endure and sustain. The process of dehumanization is one that unravels a mind and breaks a human being down to a pulp physically,

major theme that occurs throughout Vonnegut’s work is how informal social norms such as dehumanization and apathy towards suffering perpetuate violence. This occurrence is explored in several science fiction stories: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Party Down at the Square" by Ralph Ellison, as well as Vonnegut’s own "Harrison Bergeron” and “Welcome to the Monkey House”. The dehumanization and objectification in these stories is a relevant and accurate critique of informal

trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless." (Lorde, 1984). Dehumanization often makes people think of soldiers fighting enemies in war and having to cope with their actions via dehumanization. While in this particular quote, Lorde (1984) was referencing the dehumanization that comes along side war, but that doesn't change that relevance this quote has on all types of dehumanization. However, dehumanization has occurred quite frequently in world history during

someone’s whim, etc. The victims had everything taken away from them, their dignity, love, and security. There are many incidents in this book that reflects on the Nazis’ process of dehumanization of