Arendt Meets Malamud on the Bridge Called the Banality of Thoughtlessness
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This paper attempts to extend the philosophy of Eichmann (Young, 2007) to the themes of The Assistant based on Hannah Arendt’s theories. So far, many films have derived from the works of literature and not vice versa. However, if a film is metaphysical and introspective, it will help students learn literature more efficiently by throwing a lot of questions rather than establishing answers beforehand. For example, in Eichmann, the character Arendt argues that Eichmann’s guilt of Jewish massacre is attributed to the banality of evil, which denies the human plurality. And also, she insists an average man committed war crimes without any sense of guilt by using the power of evil totalitarianism. Nevertheless, this concept has been misinterpreted in the way that evildoing is just ordinary and political. Thus, the researcher aims to observe her intention in Eichmann based on its original text, Eichmann in Jerusalem and then extend and rediscover it in the name of the banality of thoughtlessness caused by modern civilization in The Assistant, which the other scholars have not covered much. As a result, it is found that thoughtlessness is characteristic in superficiality meaning no roots in its foundation, lacking in the inner dialogue between one and oneself.
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This paper attempts to extend the philosophy of Eichmann (Young, 2007) to the themes of The Assistant based on Hannah Arendt’s theories. So far, many films have derived from the works of literature and not vice versa. However, if a film is metaphysical and introspective, it will help students learn literature more efficiently by throwing a lot of questions rather than establishing answers beforehand. For example, in Eichmann, the character Arendt argues that Eichmann’s guilt of Jewish massacre is attributed to the banality of evil, which denies the human plurality. And also, she insists an average man committed war crimes without any sense of guilt by using the power of evil totalitarianism. Nevertheless, this concept has been misinterpreted in the way that evildoing is just ordinary and political. Thus, the researcher aims to observe her intention in Eichmann based on its original text, Eichmann in Jerusalem and then extend and rediscover it in the name of the banality of thoughtlessness caused by modern civilization in The Assistant, which the other scholars have not covered much. As a result, it is found that thoughtlessness is characteristic in superficiality meaning no roots in its foundation, lacking in the inner dialogue between one and oneself.
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