Response To Elie Wiesel's The Trial Of God

Decent Essays
On the genesis of hate. Second Opinion, 08901570, Oct94, Vol. 20, Issue 2
In this interview with Elie Wiesel they talk about his experiences in the concentration camps
. This will aid the book because it will give me great insight on what it was like in the camps. I can make a general description on things that were happening in there besides what we all know about the terror camp. Faulstick, DH 2010, 'PROTEST OR PROCESS: THEODICY RESPONSES TO ELIE WIESEL'S THE TRIAL OF GOD', Renascence, vol. 62, no. 4, p. 293. A literary criticism of the play "The Trial of God," by Elie Wiesel is presented. It examines Wiesel's exploration of theodicy and the goodness of God in the play, as well as the power of God and the reality of evil. Additional topics
…show more content…
This article, talks about all the dehumanization its done to the jews. The soldiers from the concentration camp would treat them so poorly, they didn’t care if they ate as long as they had people to work. Elie describes his experience watching his father crumble in the camp of Auschwitz and it upset that his father won’t do anything about it. This source will allow me to deeply understand how dehumanization was portrayed in the story “Night”.
Ephgrave, Nicole. Journal of Women's History, Summer2016, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p12-32, 21p. Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press. In this article, Nicole discusses the variations of dehumanization of women. If the soldiers found them attractive they would have sex with them. Some prisoners were also used for human experimentation, especially twins, were made into other items. They were treated as expendables. This source will allow me to better understand how dehumanization with women was way worse than the way they treated the men. This article will help as critical evidence of how poorly their identities were taken away.
Dossa, Shiraz. Third World Quarterly. Oct2012, Vol. 33 Issue 9, p1575-1593. 19p. DOI:
…show more content…
Wiesel and Wells shared similar shtetl childhoods as sons of successful merchants.
COHLER, BERTRAM J. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Mar2010, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p40-57. 18p.
This paper contrasts the accounts of mourning and the resolution of grief in the aftermath of the Shoah as portrayed in the memoirs of two men Elie Wiesel (1928–) and Leon Weliczker Wells (1925–). Each life writer grew up in an Eastern European shtetl, a traditional community, in which he was immersed in Hasidic culture, and was incarcerated during adolescence in an extermination camp. This paper explores the impact of each life writer’s experienced childhood relationship with his father in coping with his losses over the post-war period. The comparing and contrasting in the story will help me because i want to know why he didn’t care after his fathers death. This will aid my research further more of knowing how close they were in the concentration

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Elie Wiesel’s Night teaches about the Holocaust from the perspective of a Jewish boy named Eliezer. Reading and analyzing Night has conveyed points about the Holocaust that differ from topics that I have studied in the past. The main point of my analyzation of Night is the dehumanization of the Nazis’ victims, mainly in concentration camps. Many past Holocaust books and movies that I have studied focus more on the events that happen before the concentration camps, but Night takes place almost entirely in the camps. It helps me to see the Holocaust from a different perspective than the one that I have been seeing it from every year.…

    • 899 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Within his speech, the audience can discern his passion and drive towards relieving the victims of indifference. By giving a well-balanced speech, Wiesel creates a mood of healthy intensity; he gets into the heart of the audience and convinces them to take action instead of being apathetic and relying on others to do the work for them. “The Perils of Indifference” has become not only a part of Elie Wiesel’s legacy but also a cornerstone of Elie Wiesel’s character; it displays his values and views upon the corruptness of the world. Wiesel’s captivating speech will continue to inspire future generations to open their minds to the situations of others. By standing up for those who live in the shadows, Wiesel has made the world a better and more caring place where all people are treated with kindness and…

    • 1961 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Elie Wiesel on April 12, 1999, gave a speech titled “The Perils of Indifference”, in which he argues that indifference has caused our society to become mute of ones own opinions thus making them indifferent to societal problem, such as the ones Wiesel faced as a child. He supports his claim by first showing his gratitude towards President Clinton and his wife for the honoring of speaking for them that day. Suddenly there is a shift in tone as the author brings into account the definition of Indifference and how it is affecting society today. Through that he is able build his argument on how their indifference toward his situation as a child affected others. He then closes by urging the audience to change their ways for the future they want…

    • 135 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Society was composed of three simple categories: the killers, the victims, and the bystanders,” Elie Wiesel stated in his “The Perils of Indifference” speech given on April 12, 1999, at the White House. In his speech, Wiesel discusses the indifference that the Jewish people experienced during the Holocaust. Weisel was taken by the Nazis in 1944 at the age of 15 and spent about a year in various concentration camps, including Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Throughout his time in concentration camps, Elie witnessed the cruelty between strangers, and even sometimes between friends and family. Elie explains to the audience the dangers of being indifferent in “The Perils of Indifference”.…

    • 815 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Wiesel’s exploration of inhumanity is portrayed through his protagonist Elie, himself. We are given an insight to inhumane effects the concentration camps have on the Jews, especially Elie when he is witnessing his father being abused. When one of the guards beats his father, although knowing that he could possibly help his father, Elie simply chooses to watch. Wiesel expresses the strength of his inhumanity when he mentions that he “thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows”. Here, Elie puts himself before his own father, whom is getting beaten.…

    • 120 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Despite the immense amounts of pressure and frustration, Wiesel’s faith is tested but never extinguished and that small spark of faith manages to keep him alive.…

    • 1008 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A holocaust is defined as a destruction or slaughter on a mass scale; however, simply defining the term doesn’t begin to help us understand the absolute terror that was experienced by approximately 6 million Jewish victims. From 1933 to 1945, innocent Jews were forced into concentration camps in which they had to endure back-breaking labor for even the slimmest chance at life. One of the few survivors, Elie Wiesel, lived to tell the unimaginably horrific story of his life in the concentration camps. In order to survive the horrendous conditions in the camps Wiesel was forced to change in many ways. He became skeptical on the perspective of religion causing him to no longer trust others, therefore he became self-sufficient, entering the camps at a young age he was forced into maturity, and most importantly his loyalty to his father kept him going even in the times when death seemed like the best and only answer.…

    • 743 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father?” (Wiesel, 91), Wiesel was worried that Eliahou’s son may have finally left his father for good because it diminished his own chances of survival. Also, Wiesel prays to find the strength to not do the same thing Eliahou’s son did, as Wiesel remains one of the few characters to care for his family. Another instance of self-preservation is shown in Wiesel after his father died. The only person Wiesel really cared about was his father, and when he died, he felt empty because his father was all he had left.…

    • 651 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    On the 30 of January in 1933, the shocking Holocaust starts. The unimaginable vindictiveness was unleashed on the Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. German troopers rash the pure homes of Jews, compelling them to bow underneath. The Jews carrying on with an ordinary typical life were now presently a target for an inhuman evil man, Adolf Hitler. We read and learn about the terrifying demonstrations in the concentration camps by unique and individual stories from the surviving Jews.…

    • 1094 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In the book Night, Elie Wiesel describes his life in the concentrations camps of the Holocaust, and his experiences that pushed him into dehumanization. Dehumanization is what the soldiers in the camps tried to do to the prisoners. Make them feel like animals, like they were below even the lowliest of human beings. Leaving them so that their only care in the world is not their family, nor their friends, but their life, and their life alone.…

    • 1053 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Towards the beginning of his journey, wiesel started out his day and ended his day with a prayer, and he questioned religion and took great interest in it. “Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don 't understand His replies.…

    • 1096 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Jessica R. During the Holocaust, over six million individuals died, many deaths occurred from living in the concentration camps. Within the camps, inhumane acts were performed on the Jewish people. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s identity is changing from being religious and a follower of God to not having any faith in God, by staying true to himself and his faith, by dealing with tortious acts and by feeling that God was behind all of the danger. Elie Wiesel 's Identity was always based on a connection with God, during the prison camps Wiesel always stayed true to his identity and kept God within his soul.…

    • 1106 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In the memoir, “Night”, Elie Wiesel is faced with the struggles of going into concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Buna, and others in late World War II. During the holocaust, because of the lack of modern technology, no other countries knew about what was happening to the Jewish prisoners in these camps. However, Elie Wiesel was not the only one who was struck with devastation in these times of unknown crisis. Other Holocaust victims lost faith in not just their surroundings, but in themselves as well. Due to the abominable conditions of the concentration camps, Jews were both physically and psychologically damaged.…

    • 1106 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This reveals to the readers that Wiesel is losing his faith and it gives the audience insight as to how he will develop throughout the…

    • 777 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Father and Son Relationship In Night By the time Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel was sixteen, he had witnessed the worst evils that humanity has ever had to offer, the Nazi Regime and The Holocaust. A dark time in history that had killed God in the eyes of over six million Jewish men, women, and children.…

    • 1782 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays