He was a very religious person and at a young age, his faith in God is extremely strong. Elie was sent to the camp with his family and was separated from his mother and sisters, only to have his father as family, who never portrayed any emotions. He believe that at this point he seen his God die completely, and has had his faith shattered, he no longer feels as if God is acting on absolute justice. Throughout the novel Night people were treated as a whole, moved along in mass, forced to dress, act and be the same in the camps, as though the individual no longer existed and the whole herd of people had blended into one unheard mass. If only all of these people had listened to Moshe the Beadle when they had the chance, before their lives were forever changed for the worse.
Judgment. Control. All that, the whole spectrum. “ * “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.” * “The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.” * “You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.” * “This fact suddenly redefined Chris and me as bastard children.” * “Their fraudulent marriage and our father's denial of his other son was, for Chris, a murder of every day's truth. He felt his whole life turn, like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow, suddenly running uphill.
Although Towards the end of the book he lost his faith in god the only reason he kept pushing and worked harder to survive was because of his father. He did not want to die and leave him alone because he thought the only reason his father wanted to stay alive was because of him. They helped each other and watched each other’s backs while the Nazi inhumanly tortured and beat them. It was during World War II where the Germans mass murdered The Jewish people. Even though it was everyone for them self’s in the concentration camps some managed to successfully help and work with each other to survive, sharing food and other things.
Reb Molinsky is shown to be almost a slave of his own religion, to the point that he is willing to sacrifice the integrity of his household just to serve his God. Like Sara, his will and faith in his goals are so strong that he completely turn his head away from his family’s needs and chooses to lock himself in a room filled with his books while everyone else starves. This is perceived as an inhumane action, but we need to consider that Sara’s actions are no better than her father’s. Once she is an accomplished woman she goes back to her parents, just to find her mother laying on her deathbed. In other words, she turned her head away her family in order to study and fulfill her goals.
Sadly Nathan’s inability to provide his family with more right then wrong began when he was a soldier during World War II. There, Nathan escaped the Battaan Death March, and almost faced the death it brought. Because he escaped the fate of death the rest of his battalion, he views himself as a coward who is despised by God. He vows never to be a coward again and he devotes his life to saving as many souls as he can, through his missionary work. It becomes increasingly clear as the novel progresses, that Nathan is not brave but cowardly, and not a man selflessly devoted to a cause but a man devoted to nothing and no one but himself.
The final separation is Tom being separated from himself, having everyone else run his life, telling him what to do and how, not giving him his own freedom. Both Odysseus and Tom have their fair share of separations from, loss of loyalty, to deaths of loved ones, but they both get passed these road blocks and life and have to face new problems so they can achieve what they are
Upon his release from prison Nick’s first priority would be to prove that he had redeemed himself and became a changed man. A very tough task because most of his family had written him off. It would be a struggle for them to believe that Nick made a complete turn around in his life after doing such terrifying
The Cask of Amontillado I believe that no individual is ever justified to take justice into his or her own hands. Even though many people do take justice into their own hands, I believe that they are not actually aware of what they are doing. So in that case I believe that they are justified. In the short story "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor takes justice into his own hands. He actually buried one of his best friends alive because he embarrassed Montresor in public.
He stopped thinking about the feelings and opinions of people that respect him and instead began selfishly thinking about only himself. Without any morals to guide him he soon began to think of only the immediate problems. His lack of planning eventually leads to his frantic behavior and loss of self-control. He eventually just begins to kill anyone who opposes him to solve problems that he could have easily avoided if he would stop and think. Macbeth’s actions traveled along a line going from honor and respect to the killing of women, children, and his best friends.
He had a voluntarily had a castration on himself. Texasmontly.com also states, "I talked to the one guy here who's had it done… "He said it took the edge away. I hear you're hardly motivated to follow through. That's what I want: If I get in the world and I have this urge, I want it gone." It was a remorse choice and felt it was his way of apologizing to those children he