WriteMyEssay.com

...survived the Holocaust and wrote some of the most memorable literature of the period. This paper discusses some of the similarities and differences between two of their books, Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning and Wiesel's Night.
Discussion
Frankl's book ends on a note of what he calls "tragic optimism," a sense that even though awful things happen, men can survive and thrive. The tragedy comes in because they will keep going through the same things again and again—if not precisely another Holocaust, then a war or other tragedy in which man will once again prove how beastly he can be. But even in the midst of the worst conditions imaginable, Frankl finds that men have a choice. He is working in the concentration camp hospital, and describes the degrading and inhuman conditions there; he tells of waiting for an inspection, which was really a form of torture, and of constantly picking up the straw that delirious prisoners kicked onto the floor. He finds himself "shouting at the poor devils...