Traumatized Jewish Psyche in Elie Wiesel’s Night

Abstract

Presenting the horrendous conditions in the Nazi Concentration Camps, Elie Wiesel, in his semi-autobiographical non-fictional memoir, Night (1960), tries to show the tormented psyche of the Jews during and after the Holocaust. The protagonist of the text Elizer, who is the representative of the author himself in particular, and of the Jews in general, is fictionalizing the traumatic reality. By making a significant theoretical connection between the events of Holocaust and the concept of trauma, this research studies the traumatic feelings and emotions of the Jews. This thesis tries to dig out the pathetic expressions of tears, sympathy, wounds, sorrows, pain, and loss analytically. It carriesout the traumatic feelings and experiences of Jews and it closely makesa way into the psychological as well as physical destruction of Jews due to the violence and brutality after math of the Holocaust. It evaluates the contemporary consequences of Nazi’s brutality upon the Jews and attack on their tradition, culture, religious heritages, and their faith.Further more it explores the destructive and devastative impact upon Jews of the then German ruler’s massacre.