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Cassandra Effect In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Cassandra the woman who prophesied doom and was ignored is personified all through history and that includes the holocaust. The book Night takes place in the holocaust and there are multiple times that the “cassandra effect is displayed. There was this man, Moshe the Beadle, he was taken captive earlier than the rest of the people, but he manages to escape not only with his life but horrific details of what the german soldiers were doing to the jews. He tries to alert them of what will come if they stay but the jews would not listen and they refused to believe him. In chapter one Moshe is persistently warning people but time after time they would not listen, Elie stated, “ but people only refused to believe his tales “ (7). His so

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