In my opinion, when Madame Schachter saw visions of flames and death, she was a victim of physiological madness. Madame Schachter was a Jewish woman from Sighet who was deported in the same cattle car or train, as Eliezer. During the train ride, she loses her mind in the middle of the long journey and screams hysterically and repeatedly about a flaming furnace that she apparently sees in the long distance. She makes the other people on the dark train terrified, and horrified. She is repeatedly beaten by young men trying to shut her up. In my opinion, she has gone totally crazy, making her a victim of physiological madness. Elie Wiesel states in the book Night, “Yet again we had believed her, even if only for a moment. But there was nothing
