Neo-Nazism

Race is equally destructive and unifying. When two races have opposing views, a conflict emerges leading to the destruction of a community. However, when two or more races learn to live together in harmony, it leads to the grand unification of all. Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees is a novel written to discuss the prevalent issues surrounding the civil rights movement through the narrative of a misguided, white, fourteen year old girl who felt marginalized by society. Kidd’s novel focuses…

Many characters in pieces of literature are characterized as strong, brave, and courageous. The Resistance of Auschwitz in the novel, The Librarian of Auschwitz, by Antonio Iturbe are unique in which they are quietly revolting against the Nazis. They are willing to run schools, read books, and break many of the rules imposed by the villainous Nazis. Most of them are not afraid of death anymore. One man in particular, though, takes resisting the Nazis to an extreme level. In The Librarian of…

It is in human’s nature to judge another at first sight with the help of prejudices. Prejudices, preconceived negative opinions of others based on irrelevant attributes, are life-changing. This reality throws families apart and innocent lives away as society categorizes individuals into subjective stereotypes that cast negative lights on honorable people. Harper Lee embraces this theme in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird, which is set in the 1930’s. Lee marks the growth of the children of a white…

The film Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni illustrates how the worst situation can be made into the best of a situation with humor. The film is centered around the Holocaust in the late 1930s in Arezzo, Italy narrating the life of a Jewish man and poet, Guido Orefice, who is trying to win over an Italian schoolteacher who is set to marry another man, Dora. Guido’s sense of humor gets him out of a lot of trouble, like intentionally giving a speech to a group of children at her…

The Holocaust was a terrible time. Many Jewish people were captured and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp, when they get there the are separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis don't give the Jews enough food to…

In Zitkala Sa’s short story The Soft-Hearted Sioux a Native American boy goes to a mission school that teaches him that killing anything is wrong. His father is sick and unable to hunt, and he did not kill until it is too late. The young man is born and raised Native American but, is taught Christianity in school which made him a social outcast to both his people and their ways of life. Zitkala story The Soft-Hearted Sioux, portrays that the boy is torn between two faiths. The conflict with his…

Quentin Tarantino’s controversial film, Inglourious Basterds, concentrates on a Jewish revenge fantasy through his perspective of a counterfactual history of events of World War II. The film focuses on hypothetical situation in which Jews were able to inflict righteous payback on their oppressors through powerful schemes, threats, and crude violence. Adolf Hitler and other high-ranked members of the Nazi party were gathered at the premiere of a propaganda film in the city of Paris. They were…

Dehumanization is the process by which a person is stripped of the qualities that make them human, such as their identity and sentimental values. The process of dehumanization will commonly result in the loss of determination, hope, and happiness, concluding in a loss of the will to live. The autobiographical work of Elie Wiesel, Night, showcases Wiesel in the era of the Holocaust when Nazis commonly used the process of dehumanization in order to easily kill off Jews and other minority groups in…

Rome, Open City is a film directed by Roberto Rossellini about the plight of the citizens of Rome during Nazi occupation in 1944. The film starts with a leader of an underground Italian communist leader, Giorgio Manfredi (Marcelo Pagliero), escaping from the Nazi Gestapo atop of the rooftops of Rome. After escaping, Giorgio Manfredi meets a woman named Pina (Anna Magnani) who is the fiancé of another communist party member. Through Pina and her son, Giorgio Manfredi gets in contact with Don…

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-69) was a Jewish German who was a neo-Marxist, with the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany and living in the modernised Age of Enlightenment, criticized how humanity has become stagnant and the ideas of his era would rather conform than to think out of the societal box. (The European Graduate School, n.d.) In Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno and Horkheimer, 1944), Adorno, alongside Max Horkheimer mentioned about the culture industry. Adorno’s idea of fetishizing…