Gallows

concentration camps they weren’t just going to give up. One example that she experienced was the uprising in Auschwitz in September 1943. Seven inmates had escaped and destroyed four crematoriums. The Nazi’s caught four of them and hung them on the gallows for twelve hours, while all of the other inmates watch them hang there for all twelve hours. Blumie remained in Auschwitz until the Nazis one day gave them a choice to either leave or stay. The majority of the inmates decided to leave because…

Elie Wiesel published Night in 1955. This book is his testimony to the awful situations he and millions others had to encounter. Eliezer is a devout Jew at a young age. His conviction is flipped upside down when the Nazis enter his life, and he believes God walked out. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer to depict how his once unconditional faith is shaken down to nonexistence during the Holocaust. Before Eliezer’s living nightmare reigns down, he is dedicated to his religion. At twelve years old, he…

Betty lies unconscious and appears very ill. She has fainted from fear after her father found out what she did last night. Reverend Parris, Betty’s father, had discovered Betty, his niece Abigail, and his black slave, Tituba, dancing in the woods. The girls were observed to be talking to the dead and performing satanic rituals. The local physician was unable to determine the cause of Bettys illness, this caused rumours of witchcraft and unnatural cause to take root in the village of Salem. Nurse…

1692 was a wicked prejudicial year for those in the United States. Anybody who feels like they are in harm's way will try their best to feel a sense of safety. The more people who feel threatened about the same thing the more chaos occurs due to mass hysteria. This not only refers to modern day crime but events throughout history as well. A good example of mass hysteria and the need to feel secure happened during the time of the Salem witch hunts that led to the trials of Salem. Many…

In “The Lottery” there are many different literary devices we can figure out in the specific storyline of the lottery and in its themes. “The Lottery” focuses on an extremely heavy amount of suspicion between different social classes in the story. This suspense is a literary device that can be heavily seen through the story. There are many subtle hints that lead to a shocking conclusion that what these villagers do to each other every year is seen as a very old ritualistic tradition. Old man…

Night: The transgressional dehumanization of the soul “In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die” (Elie Wiesel). This alternate universe is nothing but one of destruction: the death of the soul. When one is constantly being beaten down, one no longer desires to live. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the Jewish people lose their desire to live as a consequence of enduring extreme dehumanization at the…

In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne experiences social out-casting from her community due to a sin she has committed. The novel begins with Hester being publically humiliated by her town because she has committed adultery with an unknown man. Many are affected by Hester’s sin and are either changed for the better or for the worst. Of these people who are affected, one major character faces his own personal sin, caused by the anger he feels for Hester’s initial…

looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticizing all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church" (171). No longer is she a part of the community, as she tried to be when she was released from prison and she worked for the Bostonians -- now she is truly separate, and she realizes that no matter how long she wears…

Even though Arthur Miller’s The Crucible involves a majority of the population of Salem, at its core, the play is about a single man, John Proctor, and his quest to redeem his soul amidst personal and public turmoil. The city of salem during the sixteenth century was ran by the hierarchy of The Church and the court and had been going threw a lot of turmoil. This left little rights for the rest of the townspeople. During this time period being apart of the Church would open many doors for you…

progressed, his feelings changed, developing a strong terror at the thought of becoming Hyde, whom he could no longer control. His thoughts become set in stone at a point in the last chapter where the author writes, “It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of becoming Hyde that racked me,” (Stevenson 75). A strong conclusion that can be drawn from…