Night And Schindler's List: A Brief Literary Analysis

War, war changes everything. War changes power and changes people along with it. Some say power is everything, that power changes everything and everyone it touches. Does power actually change everything, what is power? “Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.” With power comes responsibility. How you choose to use that power could be abusing, or preserving it can make the biggest difference. Within the two stories of Night and Schindler's list are the two main characters Elie Wiesel (In Night) and Oskar Schindler (In Schindlers List). Both of these people have a role in power. Between them both they have some comparisons which include; The way they live, Their personalities, and their struggles. There is one thing …show more content…
In life everyone has some sort of struggle, although some may be bigger than others. When comparing Elie and Schindler’s struggles they differentiate quite a bit from one another. Elie has internal and external conflicts. Elie’s struggles include losing his family, always on life or death, loses his faith and regains it over time, Elie is also debating if he should maintain his father or let him pass. Schindler's struggles include; not getting caught saving jews, Schindler has internal conflicts on if jews are people or not. To compare you can see Elie has many more struggles. Although Elie’s struggles are more personal like food and water for the most part Elies struggles will only affect him. Schindler's struggles will affect more people though, If Schindler gets caught then all the Jews he has saved also get taken and killed. An example of one of Elies struggles are how he debates if he should keep his dad alive or not. As you can see this affects him and his dad not 1000 people. If he keeps his dad or lets him go it won't affect much. Where as if Schindler gets caught then he can affect hundreds of people. The most noticeable comparison is how large of a scale their struggles