The Symbolism In Night Of The Living Dead

A personal experience that I have had with symbolism was when one of my mom’s friends was having a child and were revealing the gender. What they did was they had a cake and inside was the color blue for a boy or pink for a girl. When we sliced open the cake is what pink so that means they were having a girl. This has been the experience that I have had with symbolism in real life. This ties into the many examples of symbolism in the story “Night”.

However, in the end of the novel, the reader can notice a drastic change in Ben’s overall character, especially in his last few days. Ben is suddenly willing to accept his death, which he was unable to do before, even when the effects of his disease were beginning to become more evident in his daily life. Ben begins, as he describes, “...living in a gauzy haze…”(Crutcher 304). He goes on to explain that he is continuing to become weaker and weaker, but he manages to keep his core

Despite all the challenges Ben faced, he and the other partisans should so many acts of courage. One of the acts of courage was when the Jewish people, started fighting back. “ Tens of thousands of people, including many Jews, fought against the Nazis” (8) This is an act of courage because, it was almost certain that they were gonna die, whether it be murdered by the Nazi, or of something else. Another act of courage is when they began sabotaging the German army. “ They Blew up factories, sabotaged trains with supplies for the Nazi, Stole weapon shipments, and upset the flow of supplies to German troops.” This an act of courage because despite the dangers they helped the surviving Jews while risking their own lives. Ben also showed courage when we would sneak out of the ghetto to get food. This an act of courage because despite the dangers they helped the surviving Jews while risking their own

This shows courage because when Ben became a partisan, he was hunted by the police and the Nazis who were trying to kill

Symbolism: the artistic and poetic use of a phrase, object, or relationship to express a deeper idea. Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a retelling of Wiesel’s sacrifices and experiences as a young Jewish boy who had spent many years in concentration camps. Throughout the book, Wiesel uses an overwhelming amount of symbolism to express the deeper thoughts and feelings of the Jewish people as they did all they could to survive. Wiesel’s relationship with his father, Juliek’s violin, and the rations of food the Jews are provided with all symbolize the remnants of humanity that still remain in the Jews, who have been stripped of basically everything.

In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, I believe that fire symbolizes Elie’s loss of faith and hope. Elie is confronted with fire, in many situations, and it is a constant reminder of how close he is to death. An example of this can be when Elie sees, “Not far from [them], flames, huge flames [that] were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there.”(Wiesel 32) He soon realizes that small children were being thrown into the ditch and burned. This was one of the moments that triggered his loss of faith in god. He wonders why god is not helping the innocent and feels as if god has abandoned them. Another example can be when Elie says, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.”(Wiesel 34). This shows us how

Elie Wiesel conveys meaning through the use of symbolism of the word “night” in the book Night. “Night” depicts the darkness of the soul. For example, the scene of the truck full of children consumed in flames. Wiesel states, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed” (Wiesel 34).

There are many types of darkness, but none as dark as when man turns against man. Night by Elie Wiesel is a book which explores life in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. The title, “Night” is significant to the story as it expresses darkness both physically and within the psyche of the Nazis. During the night, people are filled with fear of the unknown. Night also depicts a time when a person has fewer options.

The title “Night” by Elie Wiesel symbolizes death. Death is symbolized throughout the book with the last night Elie is with his father, Elie’s last night in Sighet, and the last night in Buna. When it was Elie’s last night in Sighet so many Jews had already died at night. Also, after Elie’s last night in Buna the patients who stayed in the infirmary were killed by the Russians. Lastly, Elie spent his last moments with his father at night when his father gave up so another death at night. The symbolism of night, deaths, and last nights in shown in the text when the book states, “How much longer would our lives be lived from one “last night” to the next?” The text is saying that when will it become their last night meaning when they die so what

Elie Wiesel titled his book “Night” because it was a dark time in all the Jews lives; the title mirrors the painful feelings of others around him. The Jews were all going through the hardest times of their lives. Fighting for survival and trying to cope with their “new” lives. Elie Wiesel also uses the word night throughout the book numerous times. The word night is used to represent darkness, sadness, and depression.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

In like manner, Romero’s stereotypical portrayal of the protagonist Ben was that of an alpha male. Ben differs in nature and demeanor to Barbra. Ben embodied the alpha male, an aggressive, domineering unpleasantly rough hero who was persistent in finding solutions despite various objections. His aggression allowed him to courageously take on the ghouls, even if it involved him stepping outside to fend them off. When a multitude of the undead surrounded the farmhouse, Ben stepped outside and fought the ghouls and successfully slew a small number of the zombies while the other characters stayed inside the farmhouse. Ben also arrogantly asserted his plans above the other characters. A prime

The character that really caught my attention was Emily. Considering the fact she has been dead for year now Burton did a splendid job creating a mysteriously alluring corpse bride. Relating death to the color blue because blue is the coldest color, Emily is blue from head to toe except for her subtle but sweet pink lips. Corpse Bride had me at the maggot. In multiple scenes the corpse bride’s eye falls out and a maggot comes from inside her head and gives her advice. I feel the eye falling out is to symbolize Emily being half-blind to what’s going on around her. The fact that Burton can use stop-motion and have an eyeball fall from Emily’s face is pure magic. Based on true events dating back to the 19th century about gangs that would snag

In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez uses symbolism as a means of creating a foreboding atmosphere. The entire novel is driven by symbols that show the ominousness in things and events throughout. The augury of these actions can also be seen as the technique of foreshadowing. Apprehensiveness in the atmosphere is created at the very beginning when the murder of Santiago Nasar is revealed to the reader with the phrase, “On the day they were going to kill him…” (Márquez, 3).

The article “It’s Not Like Just the Wind That 's Passing Through” was published by R.H.W. Dillard to the Film Journal in 1973. Dillard is an author and had published 4 books of poetry, two novels and a collection of short fiction stories. Throughout the article, it is best to say that Dillard argues about how George Romero’s movie Night of the Living Dead (1968) has no special meaning nor purpose from the zombies and the movie itself. Also, based on his article, he describes the movie as a whole as “ordinary” followed by examples and his overall reason. As mentioned in the article, he described the movie as “merely ugly and cheap” which I’m assuming he didn’t like the movie. The way he compared the movie to “The Lone Wolf” and “Rosemary’s Baby” made me think he didn’t like Night of the Living Dead in general while he criticized some elements of the movie. Although, I agree with Dillard’s point in the plot for the fact that after struggling for survival, they all lose in the end, and how the characters are who they are and just aren’t as special as they’re seen to be looked as “ordinary” people. However, I wouldn’t agree with Dillard’s point in trying to compare the movie Night of the Living Dead to other films, such as Rosemary’s Baby and The Birds.