Hannah Arendt Total Domination Analysis

Hannah Arendt really expressed in this essay that she felt totalitarianism was total domination. This story really shows the problems and issues that come with total domination compared to Arendt's theory of totalitarianism; comparing Arendt’s point of view on totalitarianism and total domination with the Nazi totalitarian regime and what they did to the Jewish people during the war. To me it shows that Arendt did not have a clear understanding on what totalitarianism actually was and what it meant as in understanding whether or not the Nazi’s actually accomplished totalitarianism. With little to no morals when it came to the concentration camps, Arendt argues that you cannot truly capture correctly the extreme conditions that were taken place during this time of the living conditions and camps. So in this passage we really get to see what Arendt felt about total domination and what her views were on it.

Arendt’s essay about the concentration camps and the extreme living conditions of the Nazi and Jewish people all wraps around the concept of total domination and whether or not she really understood what this concept meant. Told with …show more content…
Next the “moral person” in the individual had to be no more; which basically means that the man had to have lost faith and does not know or care the difference between right and wrong. Lastly, in the steps to create domination amongst someone you would have to force them to lose their sense of identity causing them to no longer have the faith or confidence in themselves. Causing this break down of a person’s identity and confidence, “mans power to bring something new out of his own resources,” is completely taken away from them. This is what causes total domination amongst individuals who once had morals and beliefs but now has no faith or control over what happens to them