New studies show that father-son relationships affect grown men, and how they deal with stressful situations on a day-to-day basis. (Tobin 1) Father and Son relationships are a crucial part of a person’s life and it shapes who the person will become; however, it is in the most strenuous circumstances that, in order to survive, a strong father-son relationship is vital. In Hamlet, a play by William Shakespeare and in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Hamlet and Elie are pushed in different ways in trying to help their fathers.Night by Elie Wiesel and Hamlet by William Shakespeare emphasizes how necessary a father-son relationship is in a boy’s life.
At the beginning of Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s bond with his father is weak but as the story
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Children who do not have a father figure present are more likely to act out in stressful situations and get into trouble. “The experts at the National Fatherhood initiative note that research on children born to and living with single mothers and who do not have a father figure have higher levels of aggressive behaviors than those with an adult make at home” (Loop 1). Boys who don’t have a father figure are acting out because they don’t have a male figure to look up to, so they act our because they do not know any better. These children have never been taught how to act because they don’t have a father present in their life so they act out in aggressive behavior. “To a nunnery go, and quickly too. Farewell.” (III.i.139). Hamlet is taking out his aggression on his “love” Ophelia. In the lines before he is insulting her and screaming. Hamlet does not know how to handle his aggression because his father is gone and he has no one to vent to. Most children who do not have father are greatly affected in their childhood on the contrary boys who have a father tend to be well behaved and …show more content…
When a boy has a father present in his life he is able to look up to his father. Since he has a role model he is able to know what to do and what not to do in certain situations. Sons who have been nurtured by their fathers are able to stay strong in troubling situations, and are able to help their father out. “Everything I do in this house is to keep my father well. At the same time, I quail before the idea that he could rebound into solid physical health. What keeps me sane is that his body’s decline has matched his mind’s. My hope is to stay with him until he dies, right here in his house” (Thorndike 170). In John Thorndike’s book The Last of his Mind: A year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s John is taking care of his father for a year he will not leave his father’s. John has a very strong relationship with his father. This relates to Night because Elie is starting to take care of his father when he is getting older and John has starting taking care of his father and growing closer to him in this time of wondering. “I tightened my grip on my father’s hand. The old, familiar fear: not to lose him” (Wiesel 104). Elie is protecting his father and
In Night, Elie Wiesel talks about how a son wants to be separated from his father and how he wants his father dead because he felt that it will be a burden lifted from his shoulders. The son runs off into the crowd of imprisoned Jews, while his sick father falls behind in the line.
“Everything will seem better in the light of day”, a phrase commonly told to those suffering from the crippling anxiety and over thinking that often accompanies the fall of night. Night by Elie Wiesel gives numerous examples of the complexities and range of emotions that can occur simply by the setting of the sun. The night is a heavily used theme in the book, inasmuch as it was even deemed important enough to be set as the title of the work. The reader is given such a detailed account of the many long and difficult nights that Elie endured, that it is as though one can feel the passage of years in only 115 pages. Throughout the novel, there are many instances where the length, amount of sleep, and feelings associated with night are inconsistent due to the psychological distress these men and women were under. Perhaps the only consistent thing about the night in Elie’s life is how inconsistent it is.
In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie was more loyal to his father than himself. First, Elie continuously kept his father’s spirits up. To illustrate, Elie’s father thought he would die and Elie said this: “We’ll see each other tonight, after work” (Wiesel 75). This detail suggests Elie is trying to cheer up his father which shows his reliability. Second, Elie always tried his best to stay alongside his father.
Elie Wiesel communicates the theme ¨Parent-Child¨ to the reader by sharing a relation or many relations with his Mother and Father. Elie Wiesel stays communicating this theme, survival, by being around his parent which is his father the whole time. He is not around his mother very much in most of the book because during the war the men and women were separated. At the beginning of Night Elie Wiesel shows that he and his father barely had a father son relation.
In Night, the most important relationship is the one between Wiesel and his dad. They took care of each other. Wiesel exposes his fear of being separated from his father, by saying, “I tightened my
A son feels a responsibility to care for his father when he is ailing, because the father does the same for him. These themes resound in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night which was written about Wiesel’s experiences in Nazi concentration camps. This novel revolves around the father/son relationship in which Eliezer experiences first-hand and witnesses from afar. When Elie’s
In the memoir novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, the theme of father-son relationships when survival is the only imperative is depicted through imagery,
In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes in many profound ways. He had taken in things he witnessed, heard, emotions and perspectives which all shaped him into the person he became after the Holocaust. Eliezer Wiesel is a fourteen-year-old boy living in Sighet, Transylvania during the beginning of World War II. He is a pious boy and wants to study deeper into his religion and read the Talmud. His father, who is an unsentimental man and leader of the Jewish community, believes that he is too young. Out of the many ways that Elie changes, when he survived this historic event, by then he had become a completely different person. He withdrew himself from being pious and hopeful to unfaithful, considerate to selfish and grudgeful and significantly
Throughout Night Elie undergoes hardships like many today. “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” His family was
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a book describing events during the Holocaust that happened in a concentration camp. He has many different conflicts throughout the book. Dealing with his dad is a big part in the book.
In a Concentration Camp survival was next to impossible. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is a survivor of the holocaust who doesn’t have much of a relationship with his father. He has always felt that he was never important to his father and that his father cared more about the community than his own family. When Eliezer and his father are forced to count on each other, it’s a slow process for them to finally have a father-son relationship. Without each other they wouldn’t have survived for as long as they did and Eliezer would have lost all hope. A major theme in this story is how Eliezer and his father come together and build a relationship amidst their circumstances.
Strong bonds built upon trust and dependability can last a lifetime, especially through strenuous moments when the integrity of a bond is the only thing that can be counted on to get through those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. Although, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. At the time when Wiesel first arrived at the camps, the fear instilled in Wiesel and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on living. In turn, his
The role parents play in a child’s development is critical. They are the people who have the most influence on them, effecting most aspects of even their adult life. When too controlling, the role of a parent can have lasting negative consequences for the child. In the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the author shows that loss of an authoritative parent leaves people trying to replace the loss of that control in unhealthy ways that destroy the person. This can be seen in the lives of Ophelia, Hamlet and Laertes, who all loose a controlling father.
Elie Wiesel was the protagonist of the memoir Night who overcomes many obstacles while in the Holocaust. Elie was fifteen when he was put in concentration camps. He was separated from his mother and sisters forever; they were immediately sent to the crematoriums. All Elie had was his father who never showed much emotion or affection. Elie lied about his age and said he was older so he could stay with his father as he was advised to by a stranger who was also in the Holocaust. Elie was worked, almost to death, for one year. He also maintained to keep with his father and keep him motivated and hopeful till the very end. Throughout the year he watched his father be beaten, stripped down, and nearly dead. Elie had also been beaten; he had been especially victimized by a “Kapo” named
Adam Driver once stated, “it’s hard to kill a father-son bond.” Night is about a young kid named Elie Wiesel. Elie is a jew who got sent to the camps. Him and his father got separated from his mom and and 3 sisters. When reading Night, it is evident that the father and son is a very powerful theme.