The Knight in Swastika Night is a very powerful and important man in the Nazi empire. He is a part of the Knight’s council, which are the most powerful people and the leaders of the empire. Alfred is very different from the knight because he is an English Nazi. The Nazi’s have taken over all of the Eastern world including England, so Alfred is a part of the Nazi Empire but the Nazis still call them Englishman because they are outcasts from the prototypical German man. The German people see Englishman as their inferior. The Germans have been taught that Englishman are only a little above animals in the social hierarchy of the world. The two men have a very difference of opinions regarding some of their beliefs and ideas of the world, but actually …show more content…
The knight has very different beliefs and ideas then the typical German because he actually knows the truth about the Nazi empire and he can sort out the lies that the Nazis have forced upon the population to the point that people really believe everything they are told. The knight is just different because one of his ancestors wrote a book explaining the rise to power of the Nazis and the way the world really was before the Nazis came to power. The Knight then goes and tells Alfred the truth about the Nazis because he knows Alfred already doubts what the Nazi’s say is true and because he knows Alfred is a critical thinker and will hear him out with an open mind. The main topics that the knight and Alfred discuss with their beliefs are gender, race, religion, and …show more content…
He knows the truth about how the females were at one time equal to the males and the males had to try and win over a girl instead of the way things are for them now where the females are treated like animals and are just there to reproduce. The knight knows how females were at one point strong and independent and thrived in the world. Alfred believes that females are completely inferior to the male gender and are only alive to provide male babies to the world. Alfred believes that females have no rights and are only a little above animals. On page 70 Alfred says, “It must be right for women to submit to men. Anything else would be unnatural” (Burdekin). This quote shows the belief that Alfred thought females were inferior to males. The reason that the two have such differing beliefs is because the knight knows the truth about how females at one time were beautiful and strong and could turn down a male and live her own independent life, while Alfred believes only what he has known in his life which is that females are inferior to males and are worthless except for reproduction. At the end of the novel though, the two have the same belief in that women were at once powerful and strong and could actually thrive if giving the