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Loss Of Humanity In Night By Elie Wiesel

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One of the themes in Elie Wiesel’s Night was to preserve one’s physical well being while also keeping their humanity during the struggles they faced in the Holocaust. The Nazis went to great lengths to ensure the Jews felt less of a human. The Jewish were all placed into one category during the holocaust. It did not matter their social rank, what they owned, etc. They were a “problem” that was soon going to be handled, in ways that were ungovernable. The Nazis acts involved the theft of possession and identity, beatings, starvation, forced labor, and many others. Wiesel tells how the Nazis used these cruelty breed cruelty acts, to dehumanize them. The idea that if they treated the Jewish less like humans then they’d act less of one. The Nazis did this to dehumanize them, but it was also attempting to make them give up on their faith in God. But their religion was what pushed them to preserve their humanity for the afterlife, it gave them hope.
Wiesel showed how the Nazis went about the robbing of their individuality and personal possessions before and during the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, the Hungarians experienced a downfall of their government, …show more content…

Animals fight each other in the wild for their food, they’ll even kill. The value of life doesn’t matter to them the way it should for a human. The cruelty breeds cruelty philosophy the Nazis instilled made them cruel, made them not value the life of one another. Almost like an animal, they didn’t care for one another after being hungry for, so long. Wiesel talks of an instance where a German worker threw bread into a wagon, and the three men began to fight each other for it. He explained how they threw themselves at one another, basically attacking one another for this single piece of bread. He uses imagery to explain how they had been dehumanized into animals, monster

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