Dehumanization in Night and The Metamorphosis Night by Elie Wiesel, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka both discuss the theme of dehumanization one in a World War II setting and the other during the industrial revolution. Both books tell the reader what it is like to be controlled. Night discusses this theme while telling the story of a boy and his father in a Nazi concentration camp and being controlled by the Nazi’s. The …showed first 75 words of 695 total…

…showed last 75 words of 695 total…family. In a way, people were treated like machines: if you can no longer work, you are worthless. Although in two very different settings, these two books show us how inhuman we can be at times, whether this is by letting our jobs control us, or letting other people control us. Can a day go by without letting your job control you, or let other people influence you to do something that isn’t “you”?