Essay On Oskar Schindler's List

What were Oskar Schindler’s subconscious reasons for actually saving the many Jews he did? This is one question that a viewer of Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg may ask. The answers may be that he wanted to please other people watching him, or he could have saved Jews to please himself. Many viewers may argue that he saved them for both of those reasons.

Oskar Schindler may have saved all the Jews he saved to please other people. Viewers can see this more in the beginning of the film when Schindler takes them into his factory so they will make him money and he can show other important men how successful he is (Schindler’s List). Surely he knows that they will get no money and almost no benefits, so why would this please early Oskar subconsciously? All he wants is to be known and respected, and hiring the Jews gave him that. Also, the way some people knew him early on in the movie and the way he gives people blackmarket kickbacks prove that he did strive to be popular with higher class Nazis, proving his reputation mattered to him. In another way though, the argument can be made that he saved them to please the Jews (Schindler’s List). As said before he had to know that they would really get nothing from this job, except life. Allowing these Jews to work in his factory with slightly better working conditions and the almost guarantee of life must have pleased the Jewish workers. In a few words, one can determine that a reason for Oskar Schindler saving Jews was that he liked pleasing whoever approved of his actions. It is obvious at the end of the

In a short answer he was a people pleasing person but also deep down very caring. These facts were needed to be known about Schindler so viewers watching this film could know the real Oskar Schindler and see that he didn’t just save the Jews but that he cared enough to risk everything he had to keep them away form their