Schindler's List Theme
Schindler’s List: Research Essay
Schindler’s List is a film that shows being generous can change history. Oskar Schindler is a man who broke the mold of a Nazi and shows what can happen when you do what you believe in. Throughout the classical film, Schindler displays how having power can either hurt you or help with the assistance of his accountant Stern. Also, how the setting has helped make this story come to life. In the 1993 film, Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg portrays the theme of the power of one through characterization and setting.
Schindler’s List was released in 1993, but the era the movie took place was in the 1940s so understandably the movie was done in black and white. During that time in the 1940s, color television and …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie Schindler used his power to use the Jews and work for him. Schindler was a greedy man until he meets Stern who shows his a different way to use his power. Stern shows Schindler good morals which in the end Schindler used his power for good and saved 1,200 Jews by bringing them to his new factory in Czechoslovakia. “Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He was loved until his death on 1974 by those he saved and their families” (Wundheiler 333). Schindler showed great strength till the end of the movie by keeping is word and by doing what was right. Spielberg showed the lasting power Schindler had when the Jews made a ring that was given to him at the end of the film once the war ended. The ring represents a gracious thank you by making Schindler something from only possessions they had left because he saved them. Schindler was so moved by the ring that he wished he could only do more. Another example of how powerful Schindler was when they put stones on his grave site when they came to visit him many years later. The Jews and the families that Schindler helped, went back to his grave site in Jerusalem. This confirms how powerful Schindler truly
Schindler’s List is a film that shows being generous can change history. Oskar Schindler is a man who broke the mold of a Nazi and shows what can happen when you do what you believe in. Throughout the classical film, Schindler displays how having power can either hurt you or help with the assistance of his accountant Stern. Also, how the setting has helped make this story come to life. In the 1993 film, Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg portrays the theme of the power of one through characterization and setting.
Schindler’s List was released in 1993, but the era the movie took place was in the 1940s so understandably the movie was done in black and white. During that time in the 1940s, color television and …show more content…
In the beginning of the movie Schindler used his power to use the Jews and work for him. Schindler was a greedy man until he meets Stern who shows his a different way to use his power. Stern shows Schindler good morals which in the end Schindler used his power for good and saved 1,200 Jews by bringing them to his new factory in Czechoslovakia. “Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He was loved until his death on 1974 by those he saved and their families” (Wundheiler 333). Schindler showed great strength till the end of the movie by keeping is word and by doing what was right. Spielberg showed the lasting power Schindler had when the Jews made a ring that was given to him at the end of the film once the war ended. The ring represents a gracious thank you by making Schindler something from only possessions they had left because he saved them. Schindler was so moved by the ring that he wished he could only do more. Another example of how powerful Schindler was when they put stones on his grave site when they came to visit him many years later. The Jews and the families that Schindler helped, went back to his grave site in Jerusalem. This confirms how powerful Schindler truly