How has the world responded to human suffering over the century?
People have shown varying degrees of both compassion
and indifference.
People have intervened when it would clearly benefit them.
People have primarily shown disinterest towards human
suffering.
People have always shown concern towards others'
suffering.

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."

yes this is an analog in my view