What Is Evil Elie Wiesel Analysis

Elie Wiesel strongly answered “What is Evil?” in detail within his experienced text as he addresses about the memories of the death of his family. My whole life I have heard it said that evil is Man itself: the cruelest animal. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, he illustrates the true definition of “What is Evil” by explaining the horrors his eyes witnessed, the death of his own innocence, and the horrific memories that scorch in the back of his mind still to this day. Truly, Wiesel cannot get these lingering evil thoughts out of his mind, even after all these years. This being said, you have to consider why he cannot get these appalling images out of his head. While reading this memoir, you start to develop the evil of mankind that lays within.

Evil comes from within someone’s mind, actions, and words. Wiesel states, “They told us there was a labor camp on the site. The conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields.” (27). Wiesel is insisting that they lied to them, having them believe that the jews were going somewhere that they’d be well taken care of. For example, the germans had took the jews and threw them in a crematory like they were worthless. These actions surely emphasizes the true corrupt evilness that lies within themselves. So they took these innocent jews off to their deaths, but, now are telling them they are taking them somewhere superior, making it seem more exceptional than what it actually is? The germans utterly lied about where they were taking these poor people. Telling them the conditions were fair, when they were as nasty as they could get with the smell of gas and burning flesh. Saying families weren’t ever separated, yet that was the first thing they do when they get there. Saying they only work certain jobs making it sound like it’s not all that bad yet they are marching them into their deathbeds. These actions matter because lying is also a part of