'Inhumanity Breeds Inhumanity\r'

'In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the protagonist Eliezer enters a spiritual oppose to maintain faith, not only in theology but in hu mankindseity. Turned upside d stimulate, his man no longer makes sense. He turn overs disillusioned through with(predicate) his experience of Nazi barbarousty, but even more(prenominal) so by the inexplicable cruelty that fellow pri word of honorers inflict upon for each one other. Eliezer is app wholeed by the human depth of depravity and capacity for evil, his own included. inwardly the story there seems to be an emphasis on how inhumanity begets inhumanity.\r\nSeeing the Jews as inhuman, the Nazis cruelly care them as animals, in turn producing cruel and animalistic demeanor among the prisoners. The first example of inhuman conduct by prisoners in the story is when Eliezer and his family board the train. At first, Eliezer didn’t think the Germans seemed all that monstrous. He describes them as distant but polite. However the incr emental removal of human identity and community had already begun. They seemed human like both other group of people. everywhere a few months time however, they became more monstrous.\r\nThe Jews were unsh givehed of their homes, possessions and dignity and forced into cows cars bound for quenching camps. Eliezer comments on the overtly inappropriate sexual behavior displayed by some of the prisoners during the ride in the cattle cars. Such behavior presumably stems from being denied canonic human repute, prompting lower self respect in the prisoners. Although hardly as violent as the Nazi’s lay outions, this behavior foreshadows the downward coil in human depravity that will payoff from the tortuous experiences of the concentration camps.\r\nAs the prisoners endure more and more horrific and monstrous Nazi crime, they themselves become abusers. Forced into a â€Å"kill or be killed” survival situation, the prisoners often turn on each other in similar fashi on to the ways in which they have been mistempered. The Kapos provide an example. As prisoners themselves, they necessarily endure the same horrendous conditions of the camps, granted mildly less horrendous than the average prisoners.\r\nYet sooner than encouraging or aiding fellow prisoners under their charge, the Kapos in truth further the Nazi cause with their unnecessarily cruel and dehumanizing behavior, and destruction of hope. One Kapo remarked to Eliezer, that in the camps, it was every man for himself…There were no fathers, brothers, sons or friends, just survival alone without thought of anyone else. The position of Kapo symbolizes how the holocaust’s cruelty breeds more cruelty for its victims, turning skillful people violently against each other in a race for self preservation.\r\nEliezer’s floor further details how inhuman behavior is spawned by inhuman treatment. Beaten, starving and pitted against one some other for survival, sons beat or aba ndon their fathers. Eliezer witnesses a son beat his father for an improperly made bed, another(prenominal) abandon his father on the blizzard run, and in so far another beat his father to death for a crust of bread. Although appalled by such behavior, Eliezer finds himself resenting his own father, feeling him to be a burden preferably than the support he actually is.\r\nEven as his father lies dying, Eliezer asks himself why he shouldn’t eat his father’s rations. As the Nazi dehumanization reaches its climax, Eliezer finds that self preservation becomes the highest virtue and struggles to maintain any semblance of human dignity. Night demonstrates how cruelty breeds cruelty, and abuse creates abusers, spreading like an infection. If human beings are treated as animals, they will often begin to act like animals. There is no doubt that all humanity is capable of depravity, and under the right circumstances, incompetent of controlling its manifestation!\r\n'