Rhetorical Analysis On Bruno Bettelheim

Child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim was a survivor of the concentration who asserts his audience which is victims of persecutors during times of war. Bettelheim observes stereotypes of the persecutor and the Victim. He allows the reader to see this by using the experience of a prisoner in a German concentration camp during World War II. Bettelheim’s purpose is to reveal the truth of human beings ways and actions in other areas of life, rather than just victims and persecutors, also proving at the same time that stereotyping is not always right. Sometimes the persecutor and the persecuted both suffer from stereotype and must rise above it this shows that people project their stereotypes on to people without actually knowing them. His audience is toward people that have been persecuted. To stop persecuting you have to stop stereotyping.

Bettelheim introduces a point to the audience that the victim acts in ways that are just as annoying as the aggressor. There is no focus …show more content…
In the passage it is shocking to the guard that he is not acting like a victim, and this affects how the guard treats him. The guard isn’t able to treat him as one. The prisoner is acting abnormal, unlike the normal prisoners. He didn’t complain or ask for further treatment after the surgery. The doctor knew all along that he was a prisoner that only had interest in worker rather than having interest in getting well. There is irony here. At the end of the passage the doctor gave the patient the treatment that was need and he also was generous enough to give him the ability to receive further treatment that would be needed in the future. The author of this passage, Bettelheim, proves to the readers that you must behave in ways that make people believe that you are not a victim, even if deep down inside you really are. This is only if you want to get out of