Frank’s Criticism toward Nazism as Seen from the Lives of the Characters in The Diary of a Young Girl

Adria Vitalya Gemilang

doi:10.36841/pioneer.v12i1.485

Abstract

This research is analyzing a diary by Anne Frank. It tells the readers about the lives of the Jews during the Nazi occupation. The diary describes the experiences of the Jews in order to survive during Nazism. It tells how the Jews are discriminated and suffered by Nazism. Anne Frank describes their everyday life vividly and in honest way which brings the readers to understand their experiences without experience it. The objective of this research is to identify Frank’s criticism toward Nazism as seen from the lives of the characters. In order to accomplish the objectives, the library research is used since many data and theories are collected from some books. In order to analyze the problem, the writer employs the sociocultural-historical approach. It is used to identify criticism toward Nazism. The result of the analysis shows that there is Frank’s criticism toward Nazism in the description of the lives of the characters under the Nazis occupation. Through her diary, Anne Frank criticizes the discrimination, the lack of education, the hunger, the chaos and the mass killing during the reign of Nazism in the Netherlands.

Highlights

History has a function to awaken human about the process of revolution and society development in time dimension, which is to build perspective and historical consciousness in discovering the past, the present, and the future
AND DISCUSSION Frank’s Criticism toward Nazism as Seen from the Lives of the Characters. This part will discuss about the criticism to Nazism
By reading The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank, we can experience the daily life of Anne Frank and the rest of the members of the Secret Annexe

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History has a function to awaken human about the process of revolution and society development in time dimension, which is to build perspective and historical consciousness in discovering the past, the present, and the future. War has been going on somewhere in the world most the time. The German people, who later called themselves as Nazis, believed that they were the super-men. They were destined to rule the world. To exterminate the Jews, they conduct a massive killing for Jews which later people know as Holocaust. They found that Holocaust was more effective and efficient to do rather than to selecting the people which not related to Jews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust#Etymology). After the fall of the Fuehrer, history has recorded many version of the Second World War; one of them is a diary which was written by a girl name Anne Frank

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