Stereotypes In The Pianist

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Wladek Szpilman was an amazing pianist who suffered great pain. He was hated by the nazis who took over poland, his home country, he losted his loved ones all at once by a cruel fate, he went years without knowing where or if he’d get his next meal. The pyramid of hate and the different levels will help show the terrible fate of the Szpilmans in the movie called the pianist Prejudiced attitudes, the first level of the pyramid of hate, were shown in this film as scapegoating and accepting stereotypes. The Nazis blamed Jews and other small groups of people such as homosexuals, the mentally retarded etc., for the drain on society blaming them for their own problems and the crises in Germany at this time. Szpilman and his family, jews, were apart of these cruel thoughts. The acceptance of stereotypes helped the Nazis belittle the jews claiming jews had large noses and they were greedy with money, these stereotypes were usually untrue used to hate on the jews. Acts of …show more content…
The Nazis killed so many people. We didn’t see it in the film but the evidence was clear where szplimans family had gone on that train. Szpliman was the lucky to suffer starvation homelessness and near death, rather than his family who we were made to think were sent to a extermination camp to be burned alive. The reason why Szpilman survived was his generosity towards people, his respect and his connections through his job as a pianist along with his amazing piano skills. One memorial moment towards Szpilman survival was when a Nazi officer asked what Szpilman did, he replied with he was a pianist. The officer showed him to a room with a piano then told him to play, szpilman played a beautiful song showing all the pain he’s been through during this terrible 4