The novel ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel and the film ‘Schindlers List’ directed by Steven Spielberg, are both based in World War 2 and more specifically the holocaust and the attempted cleanse of the Jewish race. These two texts both heavily demonstrate the horrors and brutalities that the Jewish people had faced during the holocaust. The two depictions of these events have many similarities although one being word and the other being film, however they differ in perspective, Schindlers List showing an outside look at the events where Night is a first person experience. The two representations of the holocaust, although are opposites of perspective both do not shy away from showing the brutalities and the wickedness that took
When Pony surveys the gang before the rumble, we get some valuable insight into each of the surveyed boys. Their responses allow us to understand each character a little more. Their answers reflect who they are and what they think of the world, However, two members of the gang were not present at this inquiry; Dally and Johnny. Though they weren't there, it’s fairly easy to guess what they could have answered based on how they act and what they say.
Lucille Tenazas: The Cultural Nomad Lucille Tenazas is certainly the kind of person who welcomes all sorts of experiences with open arms and lets them sink into her mind and feelings and purify her personality. All bits of her experiences, particularly those with a cultural and social aspect, have turned her into an exceptional figure, a figure that is respectable to everyone. Lucille was born in 1953 in The Philippines and raised in Manila, where she obtained her BFA. In 1973, she moved to the United States and began her studies in California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA).
The Holocaust was a horrible event in history that will scar humanity forever. With the events of the Holocaust being experienced by millions there are many different perspectives of said events. One such perspective is presented in Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about his experiences as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. Another perspective is presented in Schindler’s List, a film directed by Steven Spielberg (based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally) about Oskar Schindler, a gentile who saves over one thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Both pieces show heart wrenching stories of the abuse of a group of people in different ways, each using different mediums to convey their points.
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At the time over 90% of the German people agreed with Hitler and the Nazis, it was not such a bad thing at the time to be working for Hitler and the films like Olympia and triumph of the will were received well by the general public. Themes of anti-Semitism and racial purity were not uncommon in 1934 Germany. To her last days, Riefenstahl always disputed the significance of her role in promoting Nazi Germany. In memoirs and interviews, she claims she was never interested in politics, never a member of the Nazi Party she said: 'I was not a Communist.
As Elie Wiesel had noted, “It was cold. We got into our bunks. The last night in Buna. Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night night in Buna.
The Holocaust was the mass genocide of mainly Jewish people and the “undesirables”. The jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis. All of the people that were persecuted in the mass genocide were either placed into death camps, work camps, or the ghetto when waiting to get to a death camp or work camp. Though the Nazis were trained to be ruthless killing machines, some were kind at heart and helped some of the jewish people survive. “She pinned a lie to the lips of all those who said they had no choice”, Gerda Weissman went through and saw all of the horrific actions of the nazis.
Books provide a way to tell stories, present information, and like Night, record historical events. Memoirs regarding the Holocaust are published today allowing people to understand such an event through the experience of another living being. However live action films provide visuals creating a stronger understanding. Despite the fact that Night enables readers to experience the Holocaust through the words of Elie Wiesel, “Inside Auschwitz”, a documentary, brings Night to life by displaying the remains of Auschwitz.
Events formalize a perceptive framework in accordance with their context, reactions and opinions are shaped by this basis and vary in motives. Albert Speer was an intrinsic and functional part of the Nazi Regime, in his ascension to power spanning over a decade he served as Chief Architect and Minister Of Armaments. His most notable event was The Nuremberg trials in which Speer was convicted with “War Crimes” and “Crimes Against Humanity” to which he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. As an authoritative as well as artistic figure, it’s arguable whether those charges justify his direct or indirect decisions that lead to the participation in enforcing anti-semitic ideology in a broader context, regardless whether Speer was inclined to.
Nazism significantly impacted the propaganda, terror and repression in a time of the abolition of the Weimar and rising of Hitler. The German civilization was greatly affected German people from 1933-1939 making the ideology of Nazism change most facets of life. The underlying nature of the anti semitic and nationalist theme amongst the media was a supplement to a large portions of society 's initial views. By the 30th of January 1933, Hitler had been appointed Chancellor. The intentions to commit to the ‘Final Solution’ was obvious when he used propaganda, terror and repression in order to influence and persuade his actions, therefore justifying it to himself and others he took authority over.
Imagine Claude Lanzmann’s pathbreaking “Shoah” shot in a hand-held, intimate, in-the-moment shooting style, all squeezed into 107 minutes of abject terror. Well, that’s exactly what László Nemes’s first feature, “Son of Saul” is, or at least, the filmmaker intended it to be. For readers unacquainted with world cinema, think of “Schindler’s List”, expunge the gloss of Spielberg-esque sentimentality, put in a substantial dose of mind-numbing macabre, and voila, you get an unfailing recipe for an Academy Award. Nemes has built his film entirely in Auschwitz-Birkenau, deep into the Second World War.
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.
In his 1978 publication The War That Hitler Won, Robert Herzstein argues that propaganda was ‘the war that Hitler won’ for two reasons: first of all, Herzstein highlights the “orchestra” principle, stating that the totalitarian nature of National Socialist (NS) propaganda meant that it was all-inclusive and mighty in its force and effectiveness; secondly, Herzstein cites German fighting until the final days of war (despite clearly being defeated) in May 1945 as demonstrating the impressive ability of the NS propaganda machinery. Like many historians before him, Herzstein’s analysis is tainted by preconceived discourses of Nazi exceptionalism and absolute totalitarianism that results in a distorting of historical evidence which helps formulate
It’s difficult to imagine the way humans brutally humiliate other humans based on their faith, looks, or mentality but somehow it happens. On the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he gives the reader a tour of World War Two through his own eyes , from the start of the ghettos all the way through the liberation of the prisoners of the concentration camps. This book has several themes that develop throughout its pages. There are three themes that outstand from all the rest, these themes are brutality, humiliation, and faith. They’re the three that give sense to the reading.
