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Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech For The Nobel Peace Prize

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Oppression- Through this strong word, many leaders throughout history have taken complete power of their subordinates. No matter who the leader is or how he uses it, oppression is not at all ethical or just. Adolf Hitler’s Nazis committed many dreadful crimes against people of Europe: killing millions of people and oppressing even more. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace prize, Elie Wiesel argues that people must unite against the constant oppression around the world. To begin his gradual persuasion of the audience, Wiesel makes the audience sympathetic to the oppressed. When he states that he “[Belongs] to a traumatized generation,” Wiesel gains compassion by showing that he experienced extreme cruelty first-hand. When the audience hears that he experienced these things instead of just knowing of them, they are much more sympathetic to his cause. Also, he names other famous people and places around the world that are currently being oppressed. This depicts to the audience that although they may think oppression is absent in the world, it is not, and it is …show more content…

He first generalizes the oppressors, saying, "Victims of hunger, of racism, and political persecution...prisoners in so many lands governed by the Left and by the Right." This generalization shows the audience that all political parties persecute, thus not angering or offending anybody. He then moves on to give facts about the violation of rights, explaining that it is happening everywhere around the world and in every continent. Doing this helps him reach his goal because every human deserves his or her rights, and the audience knows that. Wiesel follows this fact with another one that is just as surprising, "More people are oppressed than free." This alarming statement shows that no one is safe from oppression, furthering his influence on the

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Wiesel introduces his first claim by asking the audience about their perspective of the word Indifference and gives it definition and his own to then again question his audience about its effects. The reason for this structure was to get to audience to really think about what he is asking to provide their own perspective of Indifference and to see if their answer is like his own. He repeats the first letter of every word to emphasize the contrast between those who are indifferent and those who are not (which is his answer). He therefore backs up his answer by providing another one of his personal experience about what happened behind the gates of Auschwitz and the people. As he grows more towards the topic of indifference, he takes the time

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He also says “ Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. ”(Wiesel 119). In this quote, Wiesel also reminds us that even if it isn't us being oppressed or oppressing others if we don't use a voice for good, we are just as bad as those persecuting them. If we stay silent we are helping them get away with the terrible

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The Central Idea of the Holocaust In the speech, “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech,” Elie shares his messages of never forgetting what happened during the Holocaust and standing up against anti-semitism. The central idea of Elie speech relates to other accounts or testimonies by sharing the same message. There are instances of this central idea in Elie’s book Night, Behind Every Name videos, and Lily Eberts social media article. The book Night by Elie Wiesel, shares the central idea of never forgetting what happened during the Holocaust and standing up against anti-semitism.

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Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel is the author of widely read Nobel Peace Prize novel, Night. The novel is not only a widely read Nobel Peace Prize But also widely taught because of the extensive amount of subtext that helps create the meaning of this novel. There are several types of rhetoric that Elie uses to create this subtext, including tone, organization, and repetition. With these rhetorical devices, repetition is the most effective to create his meaning in two of his speeches called “Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize,” and “A God Who Remembers.” Elie Wiesel gives the audience a certain tone to manipulate the audience emotions.

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Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. " Hope and an optimistic attitude are characteristics of a rational and humane mindset. Documenting how these ideals change throughout a period of time in writing can be done through various means of rhetoric including figurative language. In Elie Wiesel 's personal memoir Night, he incorporates similes and metaphors to effectively convey how the victims ' humanity deteriorated throughout the course of the Holocaust. Wiesel 's figurative language at the beginning of the novel conveys how the Jewish people followed commendable politesse and practiced reasonable behavior early on in the Holocaust.

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During the Holocaust, it was obvious to say the people involved were cruel to each other; they hit, beat, and torture each other without a blink of an eye. Many times Wiesel mentioned the cruelty that went on around him and to him himself. Wiesel said when he was at one of his first camps, the veteran prisoners treated him and all

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In seeing human beings as less than human beings, individuals were able to treat one another with a lack of dignity and voice. Wiesel 's work reminds us that anytime voice is silenced, dehumanization is the result. This becomes its own end that must be stopped at all

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When the young boy asks, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent”, (paragraph 5) again the audience is prompted to emotionally respond. They have to realize that it was all of them, all of us, who remained silent and that this silence must never happen again. Wiesel demonstrates a strong use of pathos throughout his speech to encourage his audience to commit to never sitting silently by while any human beings are being treated

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Wiesel pinpoints the indifference of humans as the real enemy, causing further suffering and lost to those already in peril. Wiesel commenced the speech with an interesting attention getter: a story about a young Jewish from a small town that was at the end of war liberated from Nazi rule by American soldiers. This young boy was in fact himself. The first-hand experience of cruelty gave him credibility in discussing the dangers of indifference; he was a victim himself.

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Memory Blessing or Curse Religious wars fought over beliefs were always fought between two sides and one is thought to have a winner and a loser victor and victim. In Elie Wiesel’s Noble speech “Hope, Despair, and Memory” he describes his experiences during a religious war that were more of an overpowering of people than a war no clash of metal, no hard fought fight, just the rounding up and killing of people with different beliefs that barely put up a fight. Elie Wiesel the author of the Noble lecture “Hope, Despair, and Memory” implores us to respond to the human suffering and injustice that happened in the concentration camps by remembering the past, so that the past cannot taint the future through his point of view, cultural experiences, as well as his use of rhetorical appeals. Wiesel uses his cultural experiences and point of view sot that he could prove he spent time and survived the concentration camps in order to communicate that the past must be remembered that way it cannot destroy the future, he spent time in a concentration camps and he

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“And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive,that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget,we are guilty,we are accomplices[Acceptance Speech for the Nobel peace Prize].”By using this quote by Elie Wiesel this can support that we as humans try to remember things so we can move on and learn from our mistakes. Which then explains that by hearing or reading stories from people can help inform us. Literature can help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by telling us their experience,hardships,and feelings.

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He also questioned if we, as humanity, have learned from the past and became less indifferent. Mr. Wiesel, brought an emotional hook to the audience by giving details regarding his suffering. At the end of the speech

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In Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, he continued to help the audience see the importance of a non-violent approach to fighting against segregation and for equality. Martin shows us this by using allusion and symbolism to further prove his points. When using allusion, King quotes, “And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together…” from the Bible. By using this quote, Luther can be inferencing many things. For example, the lamb is seen to coward down to the lion seeing as the lion at the top of the food chain, he can be comparing the oppressed to the lamb and the oppressor to the lion because it’s all the time that the person being oppressed stays quiet and takes it all in.

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Wiesel brings out syntax for the ending of his speech but also incorporates pathos wrapping it all back together with the sadness and pity on all of us for the harmful silence done to the jews in the holocaust. Syntax was the most obvious rhetorical device used because you can physically see how it is being presented differently than the rest but also sending a message and not being so formal about it. Pathos was a very huge part to Wiesel’s whole entire speech as he was constantly trying to turn everyones thoughts and perspectives to what he was exactly seeing in his own eyes. Elie Wiesel wanted to show the world the horrible act of indifference and how it has personally affected him as a child and for his whole life growing up. Wiesel manages to create many viewpoints and to throw us in his shoes for us to understand the inhumanity of the ones had no sympathy towards the jews during the holocaust.

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Wiesel’s speech shows how he worked to keep the memory of those people alive because he knows that people will continue to be guilty, to be accomplices if they forget. Furthermore, Wiesel knows that keeping the memory of those poor, innocent will avoid the repetition of the atrocity done in the future. The stories and experiences of Wiesel allowed for people to see the true horrors of what occurs when people who keep silence become “accomplices” of those who inflict pain towards humans. To conclude, Wiesel chose to use parallelism in his speech to emphasize the fault people had for keeping silence and allowing the torture of innocent

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