In Night by Elie Weisel, you will hear unimaginable stories of the Holocaust. The story shines light onto the darkness and stories of the horrific events that occur. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust victim and survivor. The novel tells the story of a teenage boy from Transylvania who becomes a victim of a tragedy known as the Holocaust. He faces unimaginable cruelty and loses close to everything along the way. The archetypes that will be talked about will elaborate on Eliezer’s survival, how his mentor helps him along the way, and the evil he is exposed to. In the novel Night, Wiesel utilizes archetypes to show the injustice of the Holocaust through the archetypes, the hero, mentors and, good versus evil.
Firstly, I will be talking about how the archetype of the hero is used in the novel to…show more content… Even though Eliezer has made it out alive, he is still dead in his own eyes. Eliezer looks at himself for the first time and hardly recognizes himself. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me." Wiesel 115 The literary device in this quote is a metaphor. The author compares himself to a corpse due to his poor physical appearance. This quote shows that the things he endured during his journey heavily affected him. Along the way, he has gone from innocent to experienced. This also shows how the injustice in the Holocaust changes the victim’s appearance drastically. This is the first time Eliezer realizes what is happening is not good and will only get worse. This quote is taken from the novel when Eliezer was first introduced to concentration camps. "From that moment on, I began to hate the oppressors. And yet, I also hated myself, guilty for not hating them more.” (Wiesel 118) The literary device in this quote is an oxymoron because “hate” and “guilty” are used in the same sentence. This quote demonstrates when Eliezer was first
