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Examination of Human Behavior in Schindler's List

Examination of Human Behavior in "Schindler's List"

Throughout history the human race has witnessed many humans committing inhuman acts. Concentration and extermination camps are just one of the many awful inhuman acts. The essay “Behavior in Extermination camps” by Bruno Bettelheim reports on the actions and reactions of humans in these merciless camps. The movie “Schindler’s List” focuses on Nazi treatment of Jews and shows the conditions and treatment of other humans in extermination camps. By comparing “Behavior in Extermination camps” and “Schindler’s List” the behaviors that Bruno Bettelheim wrote about can be witnessed in the characters viewed in “Schindler’s List”. The characters in “Schindler’s List” responded to their ruthless treatment with behaviors that were all written about by Bruno such as denial, defeat, primitive childishness, and heroism.

The Most predominant response written about in the essay “Behavior in Extermination camps” to the sickening treatment of the Jews was denial. The Jewish women in their bunks, no matter how evident, straight out denied the fact that gas chambers in Auschwitz existed even though a fellow Jew reports it to them. Bruno reported this behavior in his essay, it states “They can no longer accept reality for what it is; having grown infantile, they see it only in the infantile perspective of a wishful belief in their personal immortality.” I also make reference to the female supervisor of construction. Although she was facing certain death, she was concerned that the construction of the building should be redone or it would collapse. In the essay Bruno Bettelheim makes it clear that this is a denial of the situation and follows his business as usual observations. To further clarify, Dr. Mengele although also facing certain death preformed his surgery's with all medical safety measures even though the mother and child would be murdered shortly after. So both Dr. Mengele and The Female construction supervisor both “had, after all, to delude themselves at times to be able to live with themselves and their experience.” The response of denial to certain death is one of the many responses that Bruno spoke about that could be viewed in the characters of “Schindler’s List”.

Another behavior that Bruno Bettelheim spoke of, and the characters of “Schindler’s List” both shared is the feeling of defeat. At the beginning of the movie A crowd of Jewish people was getting yelled at by one little German girl....

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