The Great Dictator By Charlie Chaplin

The performance I encountered was a film released in 1946 called “It’s a Wonderful Life” directed by Frank Capra. The film’s setting is post-war and tells a story of a savings loan manager who doubts himself and struggles against bigger, greedier, bankers. The original version of the film is in black and white due to the time period. Regardless of the lack of color, the film is still popular today due to its content and uses of the contrast between light and shadow discussed on page 242 of the text. I was able to critique this film based on the first fake real-life snow of its time, historical context of the bank, and the architecture and dress of the time period.

The world is cruel and harsh; what does it take to prove that you and your experiences are capable of persuasion. In this world, you’d want as many allies as possible, and building emotional bridges with others is a definite way of proving that you matter to others. It’s a matter of philosophy; human nature emphasizes on individual existence; therefore rhetoric is effective to measure one’s importance. Elie Wiesel, a man of age, is a jewish holocaust survivor who has a story to tell and a story to be heard. Does the man have what it takes to prove himself worthy of a rhetoric leader? Elie Wiesel’s speech, The Perils of Indifference, Mr. Wiesel takes advantage of rhetorical questions and the appeals of pathos and logos to persuade and inform the audience about their inner indifference towards the havoc happening around the world.

If a person of authority ordered you inflict a 15 to 400 volt electrical shock on another innocent human being, would you follow your direct orders? That is the question that Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University tested in the 1960’s. Most people would answer “no,” to imposing pain on innocent human beings but Milgram wanted to go further with his study. Writing and Reading across the Curriculum holds a shortened edition of Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience,” where he displays an eye-opening experiment that tests the true obedience of people under authority figures. He observes that most people go against their natural instinct to never harm innocent humans and obey the extreme and dangerous instructions of authority

Harold Ickes was successful in presenting his speech by using great rhetorical devices appealing to his audience logically, emotionally, and ethics. As I read Harold Ickes’s speech the words summed up the emotion of the time so perfectly. The time was when Hitler and the Nazi army was headed for world domination. His intents were to influence American citizen to unite as a country.

Hitler, A Tyrannical dictator, A murderer, But also an outlandish Military Leader. An Austrian Man who ruled the Weimar Republic from 1933 to 1945. But to wonder, How well did Adolf Hitler dictate The Weimar Republic to the extent where the German people supported his motives and Ideas. Though he was convincing he was a brutal man when it came to threatening other Nations, And that’s how Adolf Hitler used Appeasement to his advantage. But yet, Adolf Hitler was a well spoken man, He himself was able to convince multiple Germans In ether beer halls to Entire crowds of people watching and being converted to Hitler’s Vocabulary of Loathlyness.

Hitler was an excellent speaker, promising his people results and getting them. Elie realized this in the novel, by telling a fellow prisoner that "I 've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He 's the only one who 's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." (Wiesel 47).

Growing up my family has always thought me to be obedient, but also know the difference between what is right and wrong. I am not saying that my family or I am perfect, but I have always strived to do the right thing. I understand, in society today that we have jobs and responsibility, that sometimes it can compromise our principles, but like every person, we have certain boundaries that we just cannot let ourselves pass. In “The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram, a study was conducted on several subjects to test their obedience and how far they would go to as the “teacher” to administer a shock to a “student “that the authority figure “experimenter” ordered them to give. Among the test subject was Gretchen Brandt, a thirty-one –year –old

Throughout the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the main theme was reputation. Reputation is the general estimation in which a person is held by the public. Reputation is very important in Salem town because the town’s people care what they think of them. Witchcraft plays a huge role throughout the book and if someone is being named a witch then their reputation will be greatly affected. Focused on maintaining good public reputation, the people in the town of Salem feared that the sins of their friends and associates will taint or ruin their names. Mandy characters for example John Proctor and Reverend Parris, base their actions on the desire to protect their personal reputation.

Hitler uses his words to strike fear into people's hearts. It really is remarkable that he doesn’t need the use of any type of weapon , such as, a gun or sword to strike fear into people, instead, he utilizes the power of his own words. One particular character that is affected by the words of Hitler is Max Vandenberg. He is a 23-year-old Jew who hides from the Nazis in the Hubermanns' basement. Max was a fist-fighter growing up, and as a teenager he resolves not to die without a fight. Even when the Hubermanns hid him in the basement, Max was at constant fear that the Nazis were out to get him. “Sometimes, close to the end of the marathon of sleep, he spoke. There was a recital of murmured names. A checklist. Isaac.Aunt Ruth. Sarah.Mama.Walter.Hitler.Family, friend, enemy.” (Zusak,205) This is a perfect example of the power of words. Hitler even remains in the thoughts of many even through dream and in this case

There are several connections that can be made from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies to real-life events and people. One undeniable connection is between Jack Merridew, a fictional character in the novel, and Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. These two people not only share similar characteristics, but also performed the same tactics to convince people to follow them. One thing is certain; Jack and Hitler were natural born leaders. When first hearing Jack speak in the novel, Ralph is “intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew’s voice” (21). Just by his way of speaking, Jack demonstrates to the other characters that he is fully capable of being a great leader and that he is very authoritative. Hitler also was very talented at speaking in front of others, even though he did not know it at first. In one biography of Hitler, it was said that “almost from the moment Adolf Hitler stepped behind the crude lectern placed atop the head table the audience was ‘electrified’” (John Toland, Adolf Hitler). It was

The Great Dictator is a satirical comedy about the dictator of Tomainia, Adenoid Hynkel, and what happens when he attempts to expand his empire, and ultimately conquer the world. Hynkel’s story parallels the story of a poor Jewish barber as he tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime. The plot of this movie was meant to satirically mirror the events that were happening in the real world after WWI. When Charlie Chaplin began production on The Great Dictator, the war had yet to begin. In fact, he had already finished the bulk of the filming before Hitler had begun his blitzkrieg of Europe. Charlie has stated that if he knew of Hitler’s appalling actions, he would have never produced the film in the first place.

Although both A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone and “Clint Eastwood” by Carty Sewill relate to the dangers of living in the west and what troubles come with it, Sergio Leone depicts that there is nothing but a cold killer in the eyes of a western man whereas Carty Sewill emphasizes that the Western man does, in fact, have feelings due to the bright and vibrant colors used in his painting.

Advising the female lead to disregard the onslaught of male harassment, Jason Robards quote covers many facets dealing with the overarching theme of the mythical West throughout Sergio Leone’s film, Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969. Through in depth analysis of our course materials, I attempt to highlight the films usage and portrayal of sound and music, gender roles, and incompatible desires of the main characters in order to demonstrate the importance of these themes and how they relate the stereotypical confines of the Hollywood Western genre.

The novel Animal Farm is about a group of animals who rebel against the ranch owner and take over the ranch. However, once the animals were at last all equal, the pigs started to gradually make the farm a dictatorship by deceiving the other animals. The point where the "free" farm became just as atrocious as the original was when the pigs begun to walk on two legs, which was incredibly allegorical of the pigs becoming the evil humans that they swore never to become. Overall, the whole story was a metaphor of the Russian Revolution. Much like it occurred in Animal Farm, the visions of a better future dreamed about by Vladimir Lenin do not transpire. The philosophical goals and outcomes of communist societies are drastically incongruent because humankind is avaricious. Once absolute power is given to a person that does not genuinely believe in the purpose, that person often becomes corrupt. In the case of Animal Farm, the pigs started to relish the luxuries of humans and kept wanting more. To entirely understand why the philosophical goals and outcomes of communist societies are drastically different, one must first understand the reasons for the original development of socialist and communist philosophy in Europe, the events that were impetus behind fundamental change in Russia, and the social, political, economic, and cultural factors which cause the practices of newly formed political systems to deviate from purist philosophy. The reasons for the original development of

Oppressive leaders like Hitler have used public speaking in order to bring destruction to the world like war. In the scene when the royal family is watching him on the projector, Hitler is controlling a mass army while speaking with a powerful tone in a fast and concise pace. Hitler’s body language also represents the intensity of his message to his country by pointing his fingers vigorously. The