Morality In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Morality: A Construct Subjective and Idealistic to All In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, there is such a thing as ethics in survival mode, and humans are truly capable of discerning and acting upon “right and wrong” when abiding great suffering as seen through Akiba Drumer. Akiba forces other prisoners and Eli to understand that “God is testing [them]”; based on this, one must conclude that Akiba, just another prisoner, has ethics to guide his behavior and reinforce spirit and faith in himself and others in such unnerving times of distress (Wiesel 45). Secondly, Akiba ensures himself and the prisoners that God wants to see whether they are capable of overcoming natural instincts and “killing the satan within [themselves]”; this is significant …show more content…
Similarly, Elie’s see’s a poor, thin, angelic looking pipels life put to an end, which makes that night’s “soup taste of corpses”; this is significant because it surmises, in the form of a simile, Elie’s revulsion and reveals his sense of morality, for he is still capable of recognizing the improperness of the SS’ actions (Wiesel 65). At this point, it is astonishing to see Elie’s great sense of morality when he tells himself that “he [has] no right to let [himself] die”; all of this goes to show that Elie, a young boy, is capable of retaining morality where morality typically is nonexistent or lost (Wiesel 87). On the whole, Elie communicates his beliefs through all of these events to prove that it indeed is achievable for a person in in such transfixing times where it is either, fight, flight, or endure, to keep their morality

Morality In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

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