Examples Of Manipulation In Night By Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Wiesel’s Holocaust experience in the Nazi German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In the book, includes theme slike

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, the theme of manipulation and control is shown by the Nazi’s manipulating the prisoners by dehumanizing them through routine and false hope.
The Nazi’s used trickery and deception to manipulate the Jews. At this point in the novel, two ghettos are created in Sighet, Elie’s hometown. “The atmosphere was oddly peaceful and reassuring. Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward, everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled

Elie has now been in the camps for eight to nine months and is already used to all the strict routines. From the beginning of the book like the ghettos to the camps now, rules and restrictions are enforced to manipulate the Jews while making them seem less. "The bell. It was already time to part, to go to bed. The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell .Whenever I dreamed of a better world, I could only imagine a universe with no bells." (73) The bell in the camps is a form of manipulation; Elie mindlessly follows the bell’s order and his subconsciousness knows that if he does not cooperate, he will face consequences. The bell in the camps strips the Jew of their own freedom and choice which leads to the Nazi's complete control over the prisoners. This complete control instills fear in the prisoners, manipulating them into

Wiesel’s family is moving to the smaller ghetto as they are waiting for the last transports for the camps to arrive. “The few days we spent here went by pleasant enough, in relative calm. People rather got along…we were all people condemned to the same fate — still unknown.” (21) The Nazi’s plan is similar to the strategy of “the carrot and the stick”; For example, the Germans placed restrictions on the valuables Jews could own and enforced a decree that Jews had to wear the yellow star. But, after a while, they would not add any rules or would ease the rules, guiding false hope to the Jews, a form of manipulation. Humans are naturally optimistic which is why when the Jews feel something threatening enough, then feel relief, it creates false hope. Even when the Jews are able to leave, they do not choose to as the situation is not harmful “enough” as expected to leave. The Nazi Germans continue this strategy until the very end. In this instance, Elie’s family is being sent to the transport for the camps, which leads them to be fearful of what is going to happen next. They then learn that they will move to the other Sighet ghetto but along the way, they face Hungarian police wielding clubs, harsh orders and physical challenges. When they arrive, the Jews feel relieved and rather calm as they begin to open up to hope and optimism. “People’s morale was not so