Sunday, March 4, 2018
How can someone turn a blind eye during war ?
How can someone decide to become a bystander and not do anything when something horrible is happening in front of them? Or maybe its easy for us to judge these kinds of people like Ruth (Goeth's girlfriend), since we aren't going through the same situation that is happing to Ruth. But how much can someone see before they change from a bystander to an up stander. We see that Schindler saw the same things that Ruth saw but he was able to change to a up stander maybe because he made money off the Jews or because he was a rich man, and Ruth depended on Goeth , Financially and any other way possible, so if she was more scared because if she tried something she could be killed or treated like one of the many Jews she saw everyday. But even after she was in no danger she continued to reject the idea that Goeth was a bad person and that he was no worse than anyone else, why would she do this? Was she trying to protect herself in a way showing that she wasn't a bystander because Goeth wasn't a bad man ?
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I think Ruth simply couldn't stomach the fact that she hadn't helped the Jews. When she had the opportunity to act, she didn't possibly because she was afraid of the consequences she would face or maybe because she rejected the idea it was happening. After the fact, because she felt so guilty, she probably had to reimagine the situation in her head.
ReplyDeleteRuth was in an area where she could always see the Jews being killed, but she still didn't do anything. This all because her beloved Goeth was the one who was in charge of these killings, and she couldn't bear to betray him.
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