In the modern world, when humans hear “love” or “trust”, they associate positive connotations with those words. Although these emotions can be positive, they can also be lead to severe negative consequences. In Virgil's The Aeneid, the Greeks suffer a downfall as they believe an emotional Sinon, who misleads them into bringing the infamous Trojan horse into their city, which was full of Trojan soldiers, ready to attack. Queen Dido also suffers as she falls head over heels for Aeneas, and as Aeneas leaves Queen Dido, her feelings for Aeneas result in her suicide. Virgil uses the downfall of the Greeks and Queen Dido to show how trust and love can cause a cloud of judgement and negative consequences. These negative consequences are first shown…show more content… In Elie Wiesel's novel, Night, the Jewish community of Sighet is experiencing the beginning of the Holocaust. As the Nazis force Jewish community members into restricted areas, the Jewish citizens believe that they will be fine. They trust that their neighbors and fellow Jewish citizens will not betray them, although they eventually do. In both works of literature, emotions and feelings of trust and compassion get in the way of their logical thinking process, and it eventually leads to a horrendous downfall on their side. When the Jewish citizens of Sighet trust their fellow citizens and Jewish community members to keep them safe and to work together into finding a solution, their downfall is inevitable because their emotions get in the way of the logical idea: running away. When Moché attempts to warn the Jewish community to leave, “People refused not only to believe his stories but even to listen to them”(Wiesel 17). Instead of running away like Moché warns them to, the Jewish citizens believe that no one will hurt them and decide to stay; they trust others to keep them safe, which leads to their downfall. The emotions of trust and compassion block their logical
