Social Change In Night By Elie Wiesel

There were social changes in both stories Night by Elie Wiesel and Macbeth, Shakspheare. Social change is the “alterations of mechanisms within the social structure characterized by changes in cultural symbols, rules of behavior, social organizations, or value systems.”Although in both stories the social change surrounds death they both alter and occur in different circumstances. The Death of Elie Wiesel's father and Macduff's Family being killed showed social change. Social change was shown in Macbeth through the murder of Macduff's family. “Your castle was attacked. Your wife and children were savagely slaughtered.” This shows how his family dies in horrible circumstances. In response to that he continues with “I could go on weeping like a woman and bragging about how I will avenge them! But gentle heavens, don't keep me waiting. Bring me face to face with Macbeth, that devil of scotland.” Although he feels great pain and guilt for the loss of his family, he can't help

An example from the text that shows this is “He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears.” From this we are able to infer that when his father died, he had a very emotionless reaction, and didn't do much. Later said in the next chapter “Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore.” He was in a hopeless situation, he was unable to fight back against the one who basically caused his father to die, because of this hopelessness and the trauma he had endured he had nothing left to react to other than continue to move on and fight to stay alive. This social change and the society he was living in at the time people became accustomed to the constant death that they felt guilty but they had to keep on moving, it was everyone for themselves. They had little to no power to fight back. He couldn't get