In the start of the film, Oskar Schindler is a selfish, uncaring man whose only concern is his business. He ends up developing into a someone who understands what the Jews are going through and wants to help them. A Jewish family was taken from their home, which now belonged to Schindler. He says, “It could not be better,” while he doesn’t realize the family who lost their home is now put in an awful situation. He became rich for using Jews as his workers, instead of paying civilian workers. At this time, Schindler only views his Jews as workers and their purpose is to make him money. He starts to change when he experiences the harsh murders of the Jews at the Krakow ghetto. When Schindler watches the little girl in the red coat, it opens his …show more content…
He would try to acquire Jews, claiming they were essential to his business, and put the Jews ahead of himself. Some of his actions could have gotten him in serious trouble, but he didn’t care because he knew it was the right thing to do. When the Jews were packed up on the boxcars, Schindler asked for them to be sprayed with water. The commandant, Amon Goeth, thinks doing this will build up the Jews hope, even though there’s no hope for them. Schindler really does this because he knows they have not gotten water in weeks and they need it to survive. He reveals his full character development at the end when he realizes he could have done more than he did. He finally understands that if he hadn’t wasted his money on things he didn’t need, he could have saved more Jews. This causes him to breakdown in front of everyone he saved because he knows the Jews were innocent and should have been saved. Schindler goes from a self-centered, money-hungry man to a sympathetic, thoughtful person who saved 1,200 Jews’ lives. He goes from not even worrying about Jews to caring deeply about them and understanding what they have gone
The novel ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel and the film ‘Schindlers List’ directed by Steven Spielberg, are both based in World War 2 and more specifically the holocaust and the attempted cleanse of the Jewish race. These two texts both heavily demonstrate the horrors and brutalities that the Jewish people had faced during the holocaust. The two depictions of these events have many similarities although one being word and the other being film, however they differ in perspective, Schindlers List showing an outside look at the events where Night is a first person experience. The two representations of the holocaust, although are opposites of perspective both do not shy away from showing the brutalities and the wickedness that took
Even though he thought about being selfish and to no longer help his dad survive, he still loved his dad and wanted him to get through the holocaust together. But you could really see the emotion change when he said toward to end, “ From the depths of the mirror a corpse gazed back at me. The lookin in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left “, meaning he couldn’t see the same person after the holocaust and it presents an idea that it had “killed”
In Schindler's List it goes from owning lots of money, to helping Jews survive. Elie and Schindler made changes in their values with a step of faith. Even though Elie was struggling with faith throughout the book some part of him still had faith that he was going to make it to the end.
He lived in this garbage dump with his wife and three-year-old child in someone’s backyard, trying to survive in the cold. They were living in conditions that compared to animals, were definitely worse, and shows to what extent the hand of the Germans went. The Jews were degraded terribly, and forced to live in such dire conditions, which show the effects of dehumanization. Since people had to live in such dreadful circumstances, they would do anything to increase their chances of survival, which could go as far as to betraying your own
Innocent people like Elie turned into objects and suddenly, upon arrival at the concentration camps, became no more than a number. Attempting to ameliorate the human race, Hitler diminishes the prisoners of
Schindler’s List is a movie where a German industrialist saved more than a thousand Jewish refugees from the Holocaust. Sadly, there were still over 6 million Jews that died. Similar to Schindler’s List, Elie Wiesel was one of the few Jewish people who survived the concentration camps. He was starved, beaten, and stripped of his dignity like many others. In his story, he talks about things we would rather forget because we are ashamed of the things we have done in the past.
Elie’s dramatic change and the fear of standing up for his father makes him realize how selfish he had become. With the passing days in the concentration camp, Elie also notices how much his life changed him into a monster. He explains, “What is more, any anger
Schindler did some very bad things in the beginning, he used slave labor for his profit and he schmoozed many people for his benefit. Though near the end he still schmoozed to get what he wanted, now it was for the benefit of the Jews that he was saving. Schindler change of character and attitude saved 1200 Jews. Schindler changed a lot and because of that many generations of the jews he saved lived
Because of how he behaves in the narrative, particularly how he was kidnapped from his home and imprisoned in death camps, he establishes his orphan status. He also endured all the sufferings brought on by the Holocaust. Sadness overwhelms him, and all he wants is to get back home. “ Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned
The cruelty of the German officers at the concentration camps change Elie’s personality throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Elie is deeply religious and spends most of his time studying Judaism. However, by the end of the novel, Elie believes that God has been unjust to him and all the other Jews, and has lost most of his faith. The cruelty of the German officers also changed the other Jews as well. The events of the Holocaust forces the prisoners to fend for themselves, and not help others.
Throughout Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg, Oskar Schindler’s character has changed drastically. At the beginning of World War II, Schindler was a womanizing, selfish and manipulative man. After seeing the process that he watched the Jews go through, he realizes the way the Nazis have treated them is unacceptable. Towards the end of the war Schindler has grown due to the experiences he has been through. These experiences have made him a decent, unselfish, and manipulative man.
The Holocaust was a horrible event in history that will scar humanity forever. With the events of the Holocaust being experienced by millions there are many different perspectives of said events. One such perspective is presented in Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about his experiences as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. Another perspective is presented in Schindler’s List, a film directed by Steven Spielberg (based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally) about Oskar Schindler, a gentile who saves over one thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Both pieces show heart wrenching stories of the abuse of a group of people in different ways, each using different mediums to convey their points.
The Jews in Cracow begin to move into the ghetto in 1939, by which time a man called Oskar Schindler moves to the town in order to become a businessman, a tycoon. He cares above all about the money he are going to make, but woman, liquor and good food are temptations he consider too big to be without. In spite of his bizarre view of how to behave as a gentleman, he is polite and everyone is fond of him. This relaxed lifestyle is clearly shown in the text, as Keneally often point out his hedonistic temperament:
At this point, Schindler utilized his status in the Nazi government to negotiate allowing his workers to work at his factory while still having them stay in the concentration camps. This began a trend of Schindler becoming more concerned about his workers rather than the amount of money he was earning from the factory. This is shown further in a scene with people who are soon to be sent to a concentration camp where Schindler's sympathy towards the Jews is shown. In this scene, many people are crammed into train cars about to be sent on a hot day. While sitting outside, Schindler suggests to hose down the cars.
His motive is never completely clear—and indeed, the real Schindler never revealed his motivations. However, the film does suggest that at least one of his incentives was obvious: Schindler simply could not sit by and watch people he knew be sent to death. His metamorphosis from a man of indifference to one of compassion takes place gradually over a number of scenes. His respect for his Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, probably has a great deal to do with his transformation, as does his witnessing of the Kraków ghetto evacuation, when he sees the little girl in the red coat. However, Schindler’s motivations may also be less altruistic: it is possible that his own ego and narcissism led him to be a saviour.