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Holocaust Perspectives of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel

Levi and Wiesel came from backgrounds which were completely different. Wiesels background was Eastern European. He, therefore, had...

Comparative Literature on the Holocaust

In four pages this paper contrasts and compares the presentation of the Holocaust in Night by Elie Wiesel and Survival in Auschwit...

Holocaust and Its Lessons

In eleven pages this paper discusses the Holocaust and its lessons as they are reflected in the literary works of Elie Wiesel and ...

Language and the Impact of Violence in Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved

In five pages this paper references Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved in a consideration of how language is affected by viole...

4 Essays on the Holocaust

ignored, lest genocide should reoccur. 2. Response to Eliezers first hours in Auschwitz : It is difficult to imagine the horror t...

“Night” by Elie Wiesel

little in the way of any form of enlightenment. In the case of this book we are looking at the dense forest being an intriguing on...

Theological Analysis of Night by Elie Wiesel

the figure of Christ. It must be remembered, also, in this context, that one of the most important principles of Judaism is the co...

Human Spirit, the Holocaust, and Racism

In ten pages the Holocaust is examined in a discussion of racism and the human spirit's perseverance as depicted in Elie Wiesel's ...

Finding Meaning in Terror

in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most ...

Holocaust's 'Voice' Elie Wiesel

In ten pages Elie Wiesel's life and contributions are examined in this informative overview of his writings and humanitarian achie...

Borowski and Wiesel/Surviving Auschwitz

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

Dorothy Day and Elie Wiesel on Compassion and Spirituality

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the spirituality and compassion views of Jewish survivor of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel...

Literature Considerations of Global Issues

the dream-sensation, the co-mingling of absurdity, surprise and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt". Conrad urges hi...

Comparing World Wars in Two Works

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

Metaphors and Themes in Works of Louis De Bernieres and Primo Levi

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

'Perspectives on the Individual' and Human Nature

among four children in his family. The father was an intelligent, religious man, a hard-working storekeeper and an important leade...

Elie Wiesel's Character as a Hero Analyzed

personal codes (much like Hemingways did) which serve them in good stead when faced with insurmountable dangers. Along their journ...

Brutus and Elisha

who engages in the plan to kill through jealousy and hatred. Brutus replies: "I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well. But where...

Reactions to Night by Eli Wiesel

In three pages the reaction to Wiesel's powerful book is considered....

Evil and Philosophy II

In six pages this paper discusses evil in the world in a consideration of philosophical perspectives offered in the Bible, Night b...

Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King Jr., and Albert Camus on Human Nature

is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, doing business" (Camus 4). More and more cases of ill people a...

Primo Levi's 'Survival in Auschwitz'

Germans had inspected the camp with care and had publicly and loudly upbraided the Italian commissar for the defective organizatio...

Chemist, Novelist, and Poet Primo Levi's Death Blamed on the Nazi Death Camp in Auschwitz

In five pages this paper discusses the impact of his incarceration in Auschwitz on Primo Levi which led to his 1987 suicide. Four...

Elie Wiesel's Night

relationship between the protagonist and his father as well as issues of religious faith (Danks 101). Again, these are coming of a...

The Holocaust and Creative Writing

of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...

Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus' The Plague

In seven pages these stories are compared in terms of their similar messages regarding the Second World War's harsh realities. Th...

Comparison of Elie Wiesel's Night and Albert Camus's The Plague

is not specifically referred to as a chronicle, the narration has a similar "feel" to that of Camus. The narrator is never overtly...

Jewish Holocaust Factors

whole (Dawson, 1998). Consequently they have devised an extensive terminology to describe the changes which they observe. Postmo...

Literature Portrayal of Extreme Experience

and to bear up under the influence of extended stress. This aspect of extreme experience can be seen in many ways in the three sel...