Theme Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, shows many parallels between the topics we have been covering in class. The largest of these themes is that of John Stuart Mill, although this is not the only theme it will be my focus.
John Stuart Mill suggests that individuals should question their own beliefs in an attempt to find the upmost truth. Mill used the term reasoned discourse to farther explain his belief, it suggests that each individual should constantly be looking for truth in their own options, goals, and beliefs. This principle suggests that each individual should always assessing their situations and surroundings to best build their moral compass and character. This can be clearly seen through Night, Elie discusses his trials with his own faith. Before the holocaust Elie discussed involved in the Jewish

He begins to believe that his father has become more of a burden than a comfort of home. As Elie father grows weaker in the internment camp Elie begins to question whether he should save food for himself or share with his father, whether he should stay and help his father while they are running or leave him behind as many of the other sons did. Form the reading you can see that these questions caused Elie to face quite a lot of inter turmoil. This is first revealed to the reader through his father’s beatings. On multiple occasions Wiesel, Elie’s father, received horrible beatings of then for things that Elie had done or failed to do (for example the Elie refusing to give the Forman his gold crown) even so Elie failed to do anything to help/protect his father, this seemed to be as much as a surprise to Elie as it was to the reader, as he states “my father had been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed so much? so fast?” (pg