Zweig's hero before a bifurcation: compromise or conflict

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) is a writer and a convinced humanist who joined trying to fight the vices of society, without resorting to violence. He acknowledges fanaticism and racism as sources of creating hostility among men and the world wars as the signs of the man's return to barbarism. Through his works he tries to divulge his ideas, but it seems that the apathy of his characters in front of the social events pushes them in the margins and they are faced with a bifurcation: shrink from cruel enemy to refrain from violence and enter the war to safeguard their moral ethics at all costs. Zweig's hero chooses the first, a decision that drove him to seclusion and endangering its human values.To realize his ideal, Zweig publishes Brazil, Land of the future in which it represents a utopian society who owes his happiness to altruism and a people with a large width of spirit. But, gradually, Zweig discovered that achieving his dreams, despite the worsening international situation, is almost impossible. Resigned before the brute force of destiny, Zweig decided to leave this world that has turned all his dreams to a persistent nightmare.