Totalitarianism

Title: Totalitarianism
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1014 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Totalitarianism

Atomized and Alienated Atomized and Alienated: The Place of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in Hannah Arendt’s Totalitarian Model In Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt outlines the fundamental qualities that characterize and allow the rise of a totalitarian regime. From the outset, the atomization of the masses, and their subsequent alienation provide the foundation for the construction of the regime. This atomization and alienation find subtle, but powerful expression in Tadeusz Borowski’s …showed first 75 words of 1014 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1014 total…S.. This eventually results in an alienation so complete that Becker can utter a phrase such as “‘Yes, yes, the dirty dogs! They should be finished off, every last one of them’” (Borowski 60). This phrase encapsulates the hatred of the captives and the loyalty to the captors created in the terror of the camps. Borowski illustrates what Arendt argues: the concentration camps run smoothly because of the organization of the atomized masses provided by terror.

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