Fear And Darkness In The Holocaust

I chose fear and darkness as my concept for this writing. It may be obvious that fear and darkness play a huge role in the holocaust. Many people feared of being murdered or having one of their loved ones killed. In the first chapter (beadle guy), he was a happy man, but when he saw the atrocities being committed by the Nazi’s his minded was filled with fear and later on, this fear turned to a darkness that took away his sanity. Some examples of fear and darkness in the book are “His very presence in the procession was enough to make the scene seem surreal. It was a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in the Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition (p. 17).” This metaphor describes how hope is leaving the Jews …show more content…
Jewish people were so used to being persecuted throughout history that in a way they showed no fear toward the Nazi’s (at the beginning). A couple of pages before this passage, Wiesel writes, “Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward, everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion (p.12). This helps my case on Jewish people, during Nazi Germany, grew immune to persecution. Another example is on page 25, “It was as though she was possessed by some evil spirit.” This is another metaphor describes the strange behavior of the (woman) and how it’s similar to someone who’s possessed by an evil spirit. I can see how the author describes her action to something so strange. I can understand that the woman was filled with darkness after her family was taken away from her. Usually, when you think about someone whose body or soul is filled with darkness it may come to your mind this person is bad and probably wants to hurt you. However, in (woman’s) case she is filled with darkness that causes her to lose her