Oskar Schindler Narcissist

In the film Schindler’s List, we met an interesting but greedy business man by the name of Oskar Schindler who wanted to make a fortune from WWII. He began to protect his Jewish factory workers so it would stay in operation, however along the way he realized he was saving the innocent lives of men, women, and children. Arguments about Schilder’s intentions about rescuing the Jews are; he was a rescuer, he was impulsive, and was a narcissistic man. At the beginning, I had my mind set that Oskar Schindler was a Narcissist. This is because of the huge, annoying ego he carried. For one example, his need to always have relations with women and to be liked by them was ridiculous. A variety of his actions were quite self-serving for his satisfaction. Many argue that Schindler loved to be the center of attention. In this case, he very much enjoyed the role he was playing during the horrific drama of the Holocaust. …show more content…
I believe he did it because he genuinely had pity on the Jews. This is because Schindler employed over a thousand of them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories. He spent around 10 million marks from buying the Jews that were suppose to go to camps, and paying for all of them for being in his factory and eventually went bankrupt because of it. That 10 million marks translates to a greatly significant amount of money in American dollars. The point is, why would he go bankrupt and risk his reputation and life if it was really all about his ego? Furthermore, one holocaust survivor wrote that “goodness, like evil, often begins in small steps. Heroes evolve, they are not born”. This quote can be similar to Schindler's