Analyse how important techniques are used to engage your emotions in a text you have studied. The Film “Schindlers List” directed by Steven Spielberg is a story of a German profiteer, a slave merchant, in Nazi Germany saving 1200 Jews from being murdered in concentration camps. Different techniques such as lighting, shot types, colour and performance are used to effectively engage the audience and make them feel sadness and sorrow at the horrors of the holocaust and maintain these emotions throughout the film. The technique of “lighting” is used throughout the film to highlight the importance of objects or people. A key example of this technique is the opening scene where we, the audience, are first introduced to Schindler.
The picture of innocence, walking among the worst evil in the world. It is after he saw this and the conditions that the Jews were living in that he began to take in more and more Jews that weren’t necessarily making him money, but because he was trying to save them. I believe that half the reason for Shindler’s change of heart is because of his accountant Itzhak Stern. He convinced Shindler that saving even those who weren’t “essential” to his business or to him making a profit was the right thing to do. At the end of the movie, all of his Jewish workers make Shindler a ring as a thank you for everything he has done for them.
Originally in Schindler’s List, Oscar Schindler was very materialistic and was very self-centered but after witnessing, understanding and accepting the struggle of the Hewish people he is able to gain a sense of belonging within the Jewish community. During the Jewish massacre scene, Spielberg utilizes a close-up shot of Schindler’s face to emphasise the feelings of resentment and sadness that Schindler experienced. Towards the end of the film, Itzhak Stern his associate hands him a ring on behalf of the Jewish community and emotively states, ‘From the Talmud, whoever saves one saves the world’ and Schindler wishes he did more to save the Jewish people. This mutual and newfound sense of belonging would not have been attained without Schindler’s choice to provide for the Jewish workers. Spielberg in this textual medium demonstrates how choice sometimes outweighs and is of greater importance than the restrictive circumstances.
In Elie Wiesel's book Night, he is an innocent teenager, a child, whose innocence was taken from him as a result of the awful things that Hitler did in World War Two. In children and young adults who survived the holocaust in concentration camps, their innocence was lost as soon as they walked through the gates into captivity. This will be proven by discussing the loss of faith, family, and the cruelty of the Nazis toward the Jewish people during WWII in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Before Elie was forced into a concentration camp, he was a young and innocent child focused on his faith from birth. He was a strong believer in Judaism, and even studied mysticism and the texts of their sacred scriptures.
In Buchenwald, Mr. Wiesel dies and Elie was too pained to weep. April 11, 1945, the Jews had finally been freed. “Night” was a very tragic and interesting book. What I enjoyed about this novel was that I learned real facts. For example, how the Jews were treated unfairly.
| Albert Speer | Events Shape People More Than People Shape Events. | | Louis Funnell | | | "To this day I still consider my main guilt to be my tacit acceptance of the persecution and the murder of millions of Jews," -Albert Speer, South African Affidavit, c.1978 The statement, events shape people more than people shape events, is significantly accurate when describing Albert Speer, despite some events being shaped by him. These events include his emotionally sterile childhood, his presence at Hitler’s Munich University speech, (this event playing a pivotal role in his Nazification). His place in Hitler’s circle was secured through his chance to design the Nuremburg rallies of 1933 (as a result of Templehof rally designs), which would become known as, his most recognized and successful work, The Cathedral of Light. Despite these events playing a significant role in his life, Speer also shaped some events, which caused him to become the man he was, specifically his success as the armaments minister and his similar success as Reich Architect.
His feelings about his surroundings were always made apparent and I enjoyed reading about his times in the boarding house. One day Sophie and Nathan have a horrible fight and Stingo is there to witness it. The next day, surprisingly, they invite him to join them at Coney Island. Stingo finds it odd that this man who was once literally a monster to his girlfriend could transform so quickly from an abuser to a gentleman, but he disliked Nathan’s views of Southerners because Stingo himself was from the South. He actually compared the lynching of a man named Bobby Weed to the acts performed by the Nazi’s.
This scene is very ironic, because the whole purpose of the event is to bring everyone together, but a tragedy happens that tears everyone apart. Malik learns the most from the event, because he finally realizes he was stereotyping and holding things against races because of one persons actions. There is a scene in which he runs into the professor and there is pure silence, but it is and understood notion confirming he understand he cannot be angry and get far in life. Higher Learning is a great film that depicts stereotypes within every race and gender. While I only covered a few, the film really delves into the importance of “unlearning” the stigma's that society places in everyone's mind.
In every chapter prior to Chapter 16, Levi depicts everyday life in the Lager, and he describes in great detail how he managed to survive through means like the safety acquired from his work assignment, friendships with Lorenzo and Alberto, etc. The Nazis’ primary goal was to destroy and exterminate the Jews. From Levi’s descriptive account, one gains a better understanding of the Nazi policy of Jewish dehumanization. The excruciating circumstances required the prisoners to adapt to life in Auschwitz, in order for survival. But like I said earlier, Levi was more ashamed over the fact that he was too focused on survival and realized that they lost his humanity along the way.
He gives examples like: "Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes. Yet there's no place for, my dear..." This line creates a sense of difference or contrast between the houses of the rich and the poor; Yet, the German Jews had no mansion nor hole to reside in. Auden uses many other literary techniques through out the poem for making the readers feel sympathetic towards the German Jews. Correspondingly, the poem consists of stanzas that evidently explain the dilemma of the German Jews. Few of the many examples are: being unable to get accepted into the society; feeling as if they were getting chased and hunted down; being constricted and controlled by governments and losing their identity and freedom.