Confinement In Night

The thematic development of the theme, freedom and confinement was highly predominant in the novel, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel. It was portrayed through the conflict of character vs. character; also, through inner battles like character vs. self. Elie was either trapped mentally or physically, and abused by the people he thought were good in the world. Elie tells us that he was confined in very claustrophobic areas with no way out (physically), that he had all his rights taken away from him and treated like property (physically), and his lost of liberty to think and feel what he wished too; unless thy wanted death to be executed.

Hitler and his followers purloined everyone’s freedom and just the simple one that was given to us by some spectacular force, to live in human peace. “Lying down was not an option, nor could we all sit down. We decided to take turns sitting. There was little air.” (23) Confined they were; Jews and others, who qualified to be one, were all rushed into a cattle car with no way out or say so to venture. Not only was it claustrophobic but it is all they could see, not the outside world. “The doors clanked shut. We had fallen into the trap, up to our

“How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real.” (32) Confinement consumed all that was not free. NO freedom to contact others for help and possibly a way out of this ghastly sector of Germany. People on death row even wished for freedom from this tragic, cruel world. “Long live liberty! My curse! My-The executioner had completed his work.” (62) Smells and mental illnesses filled Germany at the time; the smell of death and confinement and the mental illness at losing your own self due to lost of