Character Analysis Of Mr Lapidoth In Nest By Elie Wiesel

Mr. Lapidoth is a Christian character that has kidnapped his daughter, Mirah, from his Jewish wife. Mirah tells Mrs. Meyricks that her Christian father has often mocked the Jewish people. ’’I said, Father, you ought not to mimic our own people before Christians mock them: would it not be bad if I mimicked you, that they might mock you? But he only shrugged his shoulders and pinched my chin and said, you couldn’t do it my dear’’ (Eliot, 2003, 117). As discussed above, because of the Jews’ religion and race, they had been turned into the minority group in the society. Therefore, the example of the novel displays the people’s power on the Jews. Mordecai said his father, Mr. Lapidoth:
We will not cast you out to the mercy of your vices. For you are our father, and though you have broken your bond, we acknowledge ours. But I will never trust you. You absconded with money, leaving your debts unpaid; you forsook my mother; you robbed her of her little child and broke her heart; you have become a gambler, and where shame and conscience were there sits an insatiable desire; you were ready to sell my sister, you had sold her, but the …show more content…
Lapidoth prove his nature. In another part of the novel, misrepresenting Christian characters are demonstrated by George Eliot. One of Daniel’s friend namely, Hans loved Mirah. Hans said Daniel: ’’ you think I must be over head and ears in love with Mirah. Quite right; so I am’’ (Ibid., 253). Daniel convinced him not to propose Mirah because of his religion, Christianity. He said Hans: ’’My dear fellow, you are only preparing misery for yourself, decisively. She would not marry a Christian, even if she loved him’’ (Ibid., 253). Misrepresenting the Christian characters against the Jews shows George Eliot’s support from the Jews’ race and religion in the novel. Her support and defense are traced in Mordecai’s views on their race and religion according to Foucault’s theory of power and