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Night is a profound novel about the experiences of Elie Wiesel, a Jewish man, during the Holocaust. Part of the reason why Wiesel eventually renounced his faith was the deep loneliness he felt from God and from others.
Right off the bat, he and his father are separated from the women in his family. He never sees his sisters or mother again, and he only sees his father briefly before he dies. However, he manages to persist. This shows how Wiesel feels his loneliness acutely, but he continues to survive physically.
In the novel, loneliness is almost always negative and forced. Their Nazi oppressors dictated their living conditions and their state of being. Had Wiesel a choice, I am sure he would not have chosen to be alone, yet ultimately when he was freed by the Russians he lived most of his life in loneliness from the God he had been imprisoned for.
We can see a paradox in the lyrics of "Breakeven" in the line:
"Just praying to a God that I don't believe in."
<h3>What is a paradox?</h3>
- A paradox is a sentence that presents two opposing ideas that complement each other.
- The paradox intends to create a sentence that expresses the complex, confused and contradictory feelings, which has the power to express the emotions of the speaker.
- Despite seeming contradictory, the paradox presents aligned ideas, with opposing meanings that harmonize.
The question above does not show the Spenser poem to which it refers, but it is possible to say that the paradox is developed in the poem to show opposing ideas, confused emotions, doubts, and misaligned thinking.
More information about what a paradox is in the link:
brainly.com/question/16223134
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The hymn itself was composed in the mid- or late-7th century and so is the earliest surviving Old English poem. Bede records that Caedmon was an illiterate farmer working for a monastery who at first avoided singing. ... As always in Anglo-Saxon culture, the Old Testament God works better than the New.
