Loss Of Faith In Elie Wiesel's Night

When one is faced with the reality of a dire situation, many choose to cling onto faith as a crutch. During a refute of antisemitism, Jews were forced into German concentration camps in which they pondered between life and death. Elie Wiesel’s Night encompasses his experience in the brutal horrors entailed within the camps; and the journey through his loss of faith in religion, humanity, and all good in the world. Wiesel captures the corruption of faith in mankind to exemplify the endurance of the darkness he endures through conflict, irony, and symbolism. Conflict is a dominant struggle for Wiesel’s faith in a higher power. His faith in the good of the world is shaken from the events he witnessed throughout the Holocaust. An internal conflict
Wiesel faced the internal and external conflicts in his battle between believing and not believing the life of prayer he had grown accustomed to. These conflicts resulted in a final outcome of his lose of faith, and belief that there was no God in existence. The irony witnessed throughout Night was that of wickedness and evil inflicted upon by the Nazi’s and those who believed in the absolute elimination of Semitists. Symbolism contributed to Wiesel’s lost faith in presenting the metaphorical estinguishment of God. Wiesel presents how his past faith has taken a turn for complete and utter darkness to express that there was no light in the world, and therefore; no God. The gruesome series of tragic events that Wiesel was subject to witness due to his culture and ethnicity have led Elizer to the denouement that he cannot and will not be able to accept or forgive the monstrosity that he feels was done under the name of God. Faith conveys the theme that the Jews had lived in a world with no merciful God, and that it was up to the strength and faith within oneself, rather than a higher power, to withstand the treatment and executions to ultimately