Tadeusz Borowski has no choice in a choiceless place and time. He needs to survive because it is in our human core, the urge to live. He tries to portray to us the crazy and brutal reality. In addition, he and his character witness and become part of this cycle of death, cruelty, the Germans' indifferent to humanity and they constantly tortured by the sights and the lack of morality. Even the language that is being used to tell the stories seems unfit and out of depth to their experiences of the Holocaust.
The title "This way for the gas Ladies and Gentlemen" has a hidden moral complicity of the life in the camps, for victims and for prosecutors all together. It is written in an inviting and realistic tone to show the intricacy of being a prosecutor; it is a way of showing the cynical way they were expected to act. Such as, becoming somehow part of the killing machine (evacuating) and at the same time accepts it as a normal way to treat people. As Borowski (1992) said "I like to think that one day we shall have the courage to tell the world the whole truth and call it by its proper name." …show more content…
They didn't have a real choice, their choice wasn't between life and death they wanted to save themselves at any cost, which meant, at times, to do as you told without trying to be brave and think about others. The tragedy lies not in the necessity of choosing, but in the impossibility of choice.” (Wirth quoted in Langer, 104). In my opinion, Borowski's suicide can be considered as a choice or choiceless act. It was his own choice to end his life or choiceless act because in his head, he never got out of the camps. In Auschwitz, Our Home (Borowski, 1992) he said "I suspect, though, that I will be marked for
The title "This way for the gas Ladies and Gentlemen" has a hidden moral complicity of the life in the camps, for victims and for prosecutors all together. It is written in an inviting and realistic tone to show the intricacy of being a prosecutor; it is a way of showing the cynical way they were expected to act. Such as, becoming somehow part of the killing machine (evacuating) and at the same time accepts it as a normal way to treat people. As Borowski (1992) said "I like to think that one day we shall have the courage to tell the world the whole truth and call it by its proper name." …show more content…
They didn't have a real choice, their choice wasn't between life and death they wanted to save themselves at any cost, which meant, at times, to do as you told without trying to be brave and think about others. The tragedy lies not in the necessity of choosing, but in the impossibility of choice.” (Wirth quoted in Langer, 104). In my opinion, Borowski's suicide can be considered as a choice or choiceless act. It was his own choice to end his life or choiceless act because in his head, he never got out of the camps. In Auschwitz, Our Home (Borowski, 1992) he said "I suspect, though, that I will be marked for