Dehumanization In Night

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Regarding Our Rights
People think having power is everything. When someone is taking the life out of everyone, having that power is not all that great. Night by Elie Wiesel is about jews who are captured by the Nazis and are being tortured in such ways like beaten, starved, and put to hard work. They were not being treated as humans and plus, to the Nazis, they were not human. The jewish got constrained from their faith which led them to be nothing but hopeless. Wiesel’s novel, Night was written to express the ways people were dehumanized in the holocaust. After this event, group of nations came together and wrote the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and some of the malignant articles that declared torture, and equal rights, interference with privacy, were written because of the events involved and compared with the Holocaust.
“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” (UDHR 15). Since the UDHR was created after the holocaust, this article that basically shows no …show more content…

They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another with the spirit of brotherhood” (UDHR 1). According to this article, all humans are free and equal to everybody else in the society when they are born. Everyone should act towards each other with love. This is not how it was in Auschwitz. The people who came up with the death camp, discriminated against Russians, Jews, Gypsies, and handicapped. The people who were forced into the terrible concentration camps were definitely not treated good at all. The guards and police had the right to beat and kill the disobedient. At one point in the novel, Elie’s father had an attack, and he was in need of water. His father asked the general if he could be excused, but instead the general slapped him off of his feet. (p.45) Elie had hate towards the police and guards after this and the camps grew

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