Genesis Corvera
English 102
Professor Tamayo
July 2, 2017
The Conflict Between Power and Morality The mindset of holding power over another living individual can create this superiority complex above someone who is considered abnormal or hold no significant importance. In the stories “Silence” by Tadeusz Borowski and “Home Soil” by Irene Zabytko both authors depict the psychological impact on how power can shape an innocent personality to become corrupt. Through these stories the audience is allowed to view the psychological effects, personality changes, and how morality can be molded to become something dangerous when that time period calls for a change whether it being good or bad. War and morality go against one another meaning that …show more content…
The people in the entire block claimed their justice and they did not want to let their rights of releasing the negativity to be taken from them. They took matters into their own hands having a sense of duty to the fallen lives whether strangers or family. These prisoners suffered the same fate and those that were taken into the gas chambers were given the chance for justice even if they only killed one S.S soldier in custody. In Flares of Memory : Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust by Chamovitz, Sheila and Anita Brostoff they depict what the American soldiers saw after they were able to release the prisoners:
His tour, conducted by a camp internee, relates details of the prisoners’ lives and shows us the physical plant: torture weapons, crematorium and other death houses, barracks, the laboratory where human beings were used for medical experiments, the sports arena where prisoners “played” games with SS troops who were armed with clubs. (Chamovitz …show more content…
Although the form of reacting to the war is different he still feels sympathy for his son. He knows the consequences to the war and he understands how someone could be manipulated into becoming a complete monster. After coming down from his form of superior high his morality slowly returns but it is already too late for him to consider his faults.The narrator speaks to this sudden realization:
I should have shot her. I should have spared her from whatever she had to go through. I doubt she survived. I should have tried to find out what her name was, so I could track down her relatives and confess to them. At least in that way, they could have spat at me injustice and I would have finally received the absolution I will probably never find in this life.
English 102
Professor Tamayo
July 2, 2017
The Conflict Between Power and Morality The mindset of holding power over another living individual can create this superiority complex above someone who is considered abnormal or hold no significant importance. In the stories “Silence” by Tadeusz Borowski and “Home Soil” by Irene Zabytko both authors depict the psychological impact on how power can shape an innocent personality to become corrupt. Through these stories the audience is allowed to view the psychological effects, personality changes, and how morality can be molded to become something dangerous when that time period calls for a change whether it being good or bad. War and morality go against one another meaning that …show more content…
The people in the entire block claimed their justice and they did not want to let their rights of releasing the negativity to be taken from them. They took matters into their own hands having a sense of duty to the fallen lives whether strangers or family. These prisoners suffered the same fate and those that were taken into the gas chambers were given the chance for justice even if they only killed one S.S soldier in custody. In Flares of Memory : Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust by Chamovitz, Sheila and Anita Brostoff they depict what the American soldiers saw after they were able to release the prisoners:
His tour, conducted by a camp internee, relates details of the prisoners’ lives and shows us the physical plant: torture weapons, crematorium and other death houses, barracks, the laboratory where human beings were used for medical experiments, the sports arena where prisoners “played” games with SS troops who were armed with clubs. (Chamovitz …show more content…
Although the form of reacting to the war is different he still feels sympathy for his son. He knows the consequences to the war and he understands how someone could be manipulated into becoming a complete monster. After coming down from his form of superior high his morality slowly returns but it is already too late for him to consider his faults.The narrator speaks to this sudden realization:
I should have shot her. I should have spared her from whatever she had to go through. I doubt she survived. I should have tried to find out what her name was, so I could track down her relatives and confess to them. At least in that way, they could have spat at me injustice and I would have finally received the absolution I will probably never find in this life.