Eva Kluge Analysis
Enno Kluge’s wife Eva Kluge experiences a similar situation to that of Anna and Otto Quangle. Initially she is an active member in the Nazi system, a post worker in the Party until she receives new of her son from her husband Enno. Enno tells her “On his last furlough he showed me a photograph that a comrade took of him. He was proud of it. There’s your Karlemann, and he’s holding a little Jewish boy of about three, holding him by the leg, and he’s about to smash his head against the bumper of a car” (p. 43). This quotation provides very violent imagery, however it also triggers a response and awakening within Eva. She realizes what she has been supporting as a member of the Party and the effects that it has had on her sons, and consequently
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Following his enforcing of the death of Enno Kluge, and his arrest of Otto Quangel, the guilt begins to weigh on him. The turning point for the inspector is when he witnesses his comrades smashing bottles of Armagnac over Otto’s head and he could not help but feel like Otto was staring at him and saying “So that’s the just cause in which you do murder! These are your henchmen! This is how you are, you know very well what you’re about. But I will die for committing acts that are were not crimes, and you will live – so much for the justice of your cause” (p.379). The violent turn of events opens Escherich’s eyes to what he has been participating in working for the Gestapo, he questions his purpose, his morals, he goes on to say “ Quangel is right to call Hitler a murderer and me his henchmen. I never cared who manned the tiller, or why this war is being fought, so long as I was able to go about my usual business, the catching of human beings. Then once I caught them I didn’t care what became of them…” (p. 380) and express his disgust with himself. Before taking his own life He even states that he has a new desire to fight but that he could not be as brave as Otto was. Like the other characters named Escherich was directly impacted by a violent event leading to a new level of awareness. In his case it was much more significant due to Escherich’s ranking. He was aware of the Quangel’s goals the entire investigation, similar to the Quangel’s the violent event triggered sudden insight, not because he had thought the principle through in
Following his enforcing of the death of Enno Kluge, and his arrest of Otto Quangel, the guilt begins to weigh on him. The turning point for the inspector is when he witnesses his comrades smashing bottles of Armagnac over Otto’s head and he could not help but feel like Otto was staring at him and saying “So that’s the just cause in which you do murder! These are your henchmen! This is how you are, you know very well what you’re about. But I will die for committing acts that are were not crimes, and you will live – so much for the justice of your cause” (p.379). The violent turn of events opens Escherich’s eyes to what he has been participating in working for the Gestapo, he questions his purpose, his morals, he goes on to say “ Quangel is right to call Hitler a murderer and me his henchmen. I never cared who manned the tiller, or why this war is being fought, so long as I was able to go about my usual business, the catching of human beings. Then once I caught them I didn’t care what became of them…” (p. 380) and express his disgust with himself. Before taking his own life He even states that he has a new desire to fight but that he could not be as brave as Otto was. Like the other characters named Escherich was directly impacted by a violent event leading to a new level of awareness. In his case it was much more significant due to Escherich’s ranking. He was aware of the Quangel’s goals the entire investigation, similar to the Quangel’s the violent event triggered sudden insight, not because he had thought the principle through in