Emotions are a truly fascinating thing. They can affect basically everything you do, from writing an essay to commiting a crime or even to making a sandwich. The concept of emotions affecting the way people act is especially prominent in literature, or more specifically the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and the Novels Night by Elie Wiesel and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream the group of lovers is subject to many emotions that affect the actions they pursue. Next, in Night the protagonist, Elie, is subject to many atrocities that cause him to develop a sort of anger that affects his actions an judgement. And last but not least, in Lord of the Flies Ralph and Jack, especially Jack, …show more content…
In all three texts, extreme emotions cause the characters to act in impulsive and immature ways. In particular anger tends to be the most prominent emotion that seems to cause these immature and impulsive acts. In these pieces of literature the Protagonists usually allow emotions to take control of their actions. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was forced to be relocated in a concentration camp from his home. As you can probably tell he was not very happy, but above all else he was angry at the god he had put all his faith in. Throughout the novel Elie gets into an internal battle with himself over his god which arguably made it easier for his life in the camp. Rather than feel empathy for the ones around him and trust in god to set him free, he did what he needed to to help him and his father survive and those actions were fueled by the anger he had for his god and how they treated the people of their religion. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, the characters Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, and Helena get caught in a sort of love square that creates conflict. Lysander and Demetrius both end up getting poisoned by a potion both causing them to love the same lady, Helena. The conflict arises because …show more content…
First, Ellie. Elie’s decision to give up on his faith was influenced by all of the anger he had built up over the years he spent in the camps. For anyone with a sound mind, you would expect them to choose their own faith, especially if you are as invested in it as Elie was. As you can deduce, this was an immature and impulsive decision that Elie made out of anger at his own god and will have lasting effects on his life. Next, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In the play, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, and Hermia all let anger overtake them after Lysander and Demetrius are both pt under the spell of the flower juice. In the circumstances of Demetrius and Lysander, they battle over Helena’s love due to their blind anger causing the conflict of who should have her as their lover. In the circumstances of Helena and Hermia, Hermia lets her anger take control after Helena insults her by saying “Fine, i' faith! Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear impatient answers from my gentle tongue?Fie, fie! You counterfeit, you puppet, you!”(3.2.292) which insults Hermia greatly. From there the supposed “best friends” begin to viciously attack each other, letting anger fuel their fight. Finally, Lord of the Flies. In the conclusion of the novel Ralph, the protagonist, is hunted through the forest while Jack,
As he was being forced to march towards the flames, his mind wandered to places it had never been before. Elie stated that “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?
He loses his faith in many ways, one way was how he lost his faith in the Jewish community. Keep her quiet! Make that mad woman shut up. She’s not the only one here…”. ()Elie realized that people will kill one another in order to save their lives. He also realized that the sense of community is lost and it is every man for themselves. When the Jews were on the train they passed by a town. “In the Wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurling themselves at each other, trampling, tearing, at and mauling each other. (101). The Jewish community is supposed to be a very supportive community. Seeing Jews fight and kill each other and being selfish at times where the community needs to stick together makes his faith in the Jewish community was completely
At the beginning of the novel , Elie's relationship with his father is fairly close. Slowly but surely, through out the novel their relationship changes. The reason for their father-son relationship tobe fairly close and not extremely close as it should be is because his father, Chlomo’s commitments to the community, affects his life at home. Which includes not having time plenty of time for his family. But this didn’t change Elie’s love and respect for his father. He loved him and respected him just as everyone in the community did. When entering the camp , that’s the type of relationship that they portrayed. In a normal father-son relationship, the father protects the son, and the son...
...his acceptance. The last few final acts of acceptance, rebellion and thoughts that drive Elie as he makes his own path not knowing where it leads him while leaving behind his religion and fills it with hope of living to the next night.
During their journey, Elie loses his father due to illness however does not feel much emotion. After witnessing his own die, Elie “did not weep” and “deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...” (Wiesel 112). While going through the camp Buna, Elie and his father had develops a strong relationship with one another. However, after his father’s death, Elie “did not weep” and displays very little towards the event. Elie had felt that his father was a liability for his own survival and did not feel the need to weep over his death. Elie also states that he was “Free at last” showing that throughout the course of the novel Elie had thought as his father as pulling him back from survival. The reason for Elie feels this way is because Elie is still on his journey and his primary goal is to survive through the camps. Elie has become quite desperate through his journey of survival and searches the “recesses of my feeble conscience” for his most inner thoughts. Throughout the novel, Elie had been storing these thoughts in the back of mind. These thoughts include him thinking of his father as liability and him being free from him. At their first arrival at the camps, Elie and his father had been very close to one another going through their journey of survival. However, after
In the book Night, there were multiple themes that were focused on. One of the themes was the belief of ones god or any god- it was being questioned by Elie himself. He struggles believing in his faith. He is conflicted because he wonders how a God is capable of allowing this type of pain to be inflicted upon anyone. He wonders why or how a God could allow such misery to those who did nothing but be his
Elie starts to become spiritually dead whenever his father blesses their god's name because after he hears that he says internally “For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should i bless his name?... What had I to thank him for?”. He starts to no longer rely on religion to keep him going, his god is slowly fading away from
One of the relationships he has that changes through the novel is with his father. “He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin.” (Wiesel 4). Elie’s relationship with his father,
Elie was a very religious young boy. He was very young when he took an immense interest in his religious belief. He
Elie’s most profound loss was the loss of his faith. As a child, he and his family’s morals and philosophies were strongly rooted in the Jewish faith. Faith gave them identity and purpose. Elie himself was very religious, even studying a separate branch of Judaism at night after going to school. “During the day I studied the Talmud, and
Elie seems to lose faith in God. “"Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba…May His name be celebrated and sanctified…" whispered my father. For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (33) The God Elie once prayed and cried out to before was allowing his people to die in horrible ways. God, a being who is supposed to be loving and merciful was allowing them to die alongside millions of other
Throughout their time at the concentration camps, Elie continuously shows the frustration he feels regarding his father, “I was angry with him (Elie’s father), for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (52). Elie is seen as not only more physically capable but also more mentally capable than his father, causing Elie to take charge of both his and his father’s lives, “‘Let’s be evacuated with the others,’ I said to him. He (Elie’s father) did not answer” (78). As time went on, Elie’s father continuously grew more and more weak. So weak that Elie even compared him to a “timid, weak, child” (100). Despite his father’s extreme health decline, Elie still attempted to help his father achieve survival, only to do it half-heartedly, “I gave him what was left of my soup… I felt that I was giving it up against my will” (102). Again, Elie was not the only person who dealt with this situation during their time at the camps. One example being while him, his father, and many other prisoners are traveling to … Elie witnesses a man beat his own father to death for a piece of bread (96). Another example being Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandoned his father in order to focus and ensure on his own survival. Elie, upon seeing this, vows to a God he no longer believes in to give him the strength to not betray his father in such a way, “My God, give me strength never to do
The cruel events that unfold in the Holocaust irreversibly damage Elie’s stance on God. What kind of God could let innocent Jews be burned alive, to be starved till they were nothing but skin and bone, to be treated like animals…? how could a benevolent God let such depravities occur? Not only were the Nazis unjustly cruel, but prisoners began to only think and act for themselves. If the world around him were selfish and cruel, Elie began to believe that God must be equally so. Elie eventually ceases to pray, refuses to fast (which was Jewish tradition), and questions the morality of God — the benevolent, peaceful, all-loving figure he once knew was nothing but a memory, and his belief had been severely shaken due to his experiences during
Much of history’s most renown literature have real-world connections hidden in them, although they may be taxing uncover. William Golding’s classic, Lord of the Flies, is no exception. In this work of art, Golding uses the three main characters, Piggy, Jack, and Ralph, to symbolize various aspects of human nature through their behaviors, actions, and responses.
There was no longer a God to him. Part of the reason was to please his father’s wishes because his father never wanted Elie to fast. Elie makes the decision not to do this which changes his character. In the beginning Elie believes in God and wants to learn more. Then now we see he does not even fast because there is no more God to him.