The Systematic Dehumanization in Night Society’s power can be used for good and for evil, society's power during world war II was used for a lot of evil. The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, is about a young boy who is thrown into a concentration camp in 1944. Him and his father stuck together when they went through all the horrors the Nazi officers put them through, like going from one camp to another, being abused, and witnessing how inhumane people were becoming in the camps. Wiesel demonstrates the effects that Systematic Dehumanization can have on inmates. Wiesel shows that society can use Systematic Dehumanization to control people and turn them against each other. Wiesel shows that Systematic Dehumanization can cause people commit betrayal
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After the SS officers had made the prisoners run 42 miles non-stop, to a small abandoned village, Elie and his father found shelter. One of the characters, Rabbi Eliahou walked in and asked if they had seen his son anywhere because they had lost each other when they were running with the crowd (Wiesel 86), After awhile of talking to Elie and his father, he decided to go search for his son some more, Elie realized after he left that his the Rabbi's son was trying to get away from him. This is explained when Wiesel wrote, “A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: he had wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival” (Wiesel 87). In this quote, Wiesel talks about how the son of Rabbi Eliahou tried to get rid of his father. The fact that the Rabbi's son was just willing to leave him behind when he wasn't running fast enough, just to get the burden off of him so he would have more to survive off of shows that selfishness was caused by society. Selfishness in the camps was extreme, like when they would fight over bread so they could survive better, points out how society used Systematic Dehumanization to make the prisoners do selfish acts. Selfishness was a part in …show more content…
The night before Elie's father's death, his father was being beaten up by one of the SS officers, he wasn't crying, he was just scared that he would be hit if he said anything. Sometime in the night his father died, his reaction to his father's death is explained when he wrote, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like---free at last!” (Wiesel 106). In this quote, it talks about Elie's reaction to his father's death. This quote shows that Systematic Dehumanization can cause people to be desensitized to loved ones dying because Elie could not cry about his father dying and felt free. Also, death and suffering was often seen in the prison camps which can cause people to get used to it and not think much about it. Desensitization is a key factor in Systematic Dehumanization to try to control what people
After the SS officers had made the prisoners run 42 miles non-stop, to a small abandoned village, Elie and his father found shelter. One of the characters, Rabbi Eliahou walked in and asked if they had seen his son anywhere because they had lost each other when they were running with the crowd (Wiesel 86), After awhile of talking to Elie and his father, he decided to go search for his son some more, Elie realized after he left that his the Rabbi's son was trying to get away from him. This is explained when Wiesel wrote, “A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: he had wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival” (Wiesel 87). In this quote, Wiesel talks about how the son of Rabbi Eliahou tried to get rid of his father. The fact that the Rabbi's son was just willing to leave him behind when he wasn't running fast enough, just to get the burden off of him so he would have more to survive off of shows that selfishness was caused by society. Selfishness in the camps was extreme, like when they would fight over bread so they could survive better, points out how society used Systematic Dehumanization to make the prisoners do selfish acts. Selfishness was a part in …show more content…
The night before Elie's father's death, his father was being beaten up by one of the SS officers, he wasn't crying, he was just scared that he would be hit if he said anything. Sometime in the night his father died, his reaction to his father's death is explained when he wrote, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like---free at last!” (Wiesel 106). In this quote, it talks about Elie's reaction to his father's death. This quote shows that Systematic Dehumanization can cause people to be desensitized to loved ones dying because Elie could not cry about his father dying and felt free. Also, death and suffering was often seen in the prison camps which can cause people to get used to it and not think much about it. Desensitization is a key factor in Systematic Dehumanization to try to control what people