Uniting as a society is the first step that must be taken in order to create a better world. Working together for a common cause is essential to getting the desired result. In his speech, “The Great Dictator,” Charlie Chaplin supports a society where people cooperate with one another to spread happiness and harmony by empowering his audience to aspire to do greater not only for others, but also for themselves. Anyone and everyone who listens to his speech will feel the responsibility that they have to make life better than it is in its current condition. Although Chaplin simply states that he does not want to be an emperor, he still shows that he is a person for the people, a person who cares deeply for liberty and love, a person who wants
He describes how the world has lost sight of what is in the best interests of the people and the qualities he assigns to the world are full of negative connotations. The personification of greed provides imagery for the audience to picture what has caused a deviation in the path that the world should have taken without the negative qualities that it currently has. He personifies greed as having “goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed” to demonstrate the great impact that greed has caused. Greed comes to life as an evil force that needs to be stopped to prevent further damage to society. After discussing the qualities that must be eradicated in order bring happiness, Chaplin stresses the importance of unity. His tone of urgency reaches out to all as he repeats the need for people to unify, but in different words. The asyndeton dramatizes his message that in order for him to proceed, the people must first agree to cooperate together. Additionally, the absence of conjunctions magnifies his point that people invent objects for convenience of unity, yet humans destroy the purpose of these inventions through their inherently negative characteristics. The asyndeton engages the audience because it is easy to understand and amplifies his argument that unity is absolutely necessary. Chaplin continues his speech by acknowledging that his words are affecting
He commands the soldiers to show love towards others, and this appeal to emotions strongly supports his message. He enrages the soldiers by illustrating a life in which they are treated as less than human beings, and the soldiers become angry because they do not wish to be portrayed as “brutes.” By ordering them to act as human beings should act, Chaplin stirs them up so that they will take action. He is able to evoke feelings of anger from the soldiers because he addresses them directly and uses the second person point of view, “you.” The repetitive use of “you” pulls the audience into action because of the aggressive, serious tone that it creates. Moreover, Chaplin’s directness towards the soldiers further strengthens their personal connections. The anaphora essentially tells the soldiers what they are and what they are not. Chaplin’s specificity about what he expects from the soldiers highlights his message and clearly defines what a united society is made up of. He extends his objectives toward the soldiers by alluding to the Bible. His mentioning of a verse from the Bible provides power to his speech that it is based on a reliable source. In addition, the allusion creates a visualization of liberty. Chaplin’s many uses of imagery throughout his speech are effective because not only do they serve the purpose of stimulating the
Many soldiers who come back from the war need to express how they feel. Many do it in the way of writing. Many soldiers die in war, but the ones who come back are just as “dead.” Many cadets come back with shell shock, amputated arms and legs, and sometimes even their friends aren’t there with them. So during World War I, there was a burst of new art and writings come from the soldiers. Many express in the way of books, poems, short stories and art itself. Most soldiers are just trying to escape. A lot of these soldiers are trying to show what war is really like, and people respond. They finally might think war might not be the answer. This is why writers use imagery, irony and structure to protest war.
In the book “The Things They Carried”, O’Brien uses imagery, figurative language and repetition to convey his message. O’Brien’s purpose for story telling, is to clear his conscience of war and to tell the stories of soldiers who were forgotten by society. Many young men were sent to war, despite opposing it. They believed it was “wrong” to be sent to their deaths. Sadly, no one realizes a person’s significance until they die. Only remembering how they lived rather than acknowledging their existence when they were alive.
In the novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien demonstrates how exposure to the atrocities of nations at war leads to the soldiers having skewed perspectives on what is right and wrong, predominantly at times when the purpose of the war itself appears elusive. The ambiguity that consumes the stories of “The Things They Carried” and “How to Tell a True War Story” is displayed with irony, for the ‘moral’ of such war stories is that there is no moral at all. O’Brien portrays the character Mitchell Sanders as an observer who seeks the morals to be found through the war fatalities; however, he depicts these morals in a manner that actually stresses the impiety of the situations above all else. The characters in this novel are at the forefront of the Vietnam War, thus blinded by carnage that soon begins to obscure any prior notions held about what is moralistic and what is not.
Mohandas Gandhi and Mao Zedong were two great leaders who succeeded in many ways through their actions and decisions. Gandhi was an Indian leader and Mao a Chinese leader. However, their approach to success, peace, and ultimately, a revolution, was very different. Mao favored peace through violence, and Gandhi favored peace through non-cooperation and standing up for what is right. He also believed that these changes would be accomplished by “conscious suffering”, which was the way he put it.
Notably, imagery in “Buttons” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” illustrate to the reader the authentic side of battle that soldiers experience first hand. The majority of “Buttons” is spent showing the reader the light and airy version of war that those not in battle practice. The Narrator uses words such as “ laughing” and “sunny” (Sandburg 5) to describe the atmosphere of the newspaper office. However, the narrator then goes on to state the horrific truth of war with phrases such as “twist on their bodies…gasping of wounds…death in their throats” (Sandburg 10-13). The depiction of a massacre like scene is used to reveal to reader the authentic side of war, parallel to the use of imagery in “Dulce et Decorum Est”. The narrator of “Dulce et Decorum Est” expresses the horrendous and disturbing version of war with phrases such as “Froth corrupted lungs…obscene as cancer…white eyes writhing in his face” (Owen 19-23) to portray the real side of war. The narrator shows how awful and unsettling combat actual is through vivid illustrations to convey to the reader that war is not honorable, nor revering. Both “Buttons” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” ...
...t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.”
During the book, the author use words or phrases as a form of mock seriousness that gives way to the absurd. Especially after a person died, there will have “So it goes” (Kurt Vonnegut, 1969). The author wants to use this kind of specific words to emphasize that the war is really oppressive and cruel. The author through the Billy’s perspective to explain his own feelings, and condemn the Fascism’s brutal, and laugh at human start the war stupid because the war causes a lot of unfair, make many people died, and anyone involved the war have bad life. The only thing that the war can give us is unhappiness, and cannot bring anything good. Conversely, the peaceful environment not only can make people fell security, but also promote the social
The soldiers from this novel represent actual feelings about brotherhoods, misperceptions of war and the pointless fighting. They provide clear examples of these with their experiences from war. From sitting on their “boxes” and chatting, to the realization of a friend inside an enemy, these soldiers have been able to see the realities of war and have shared it with the rest of the world. People can now see how horrid it is to be in a war and now they try at all costs to prevent war. War is bad, that’s all there is to it. Not much more you can say about it except that. When viewing the death of innocent people, the question is asked once again, is it really worth it?
Thus, in "Guests of the Nation," Frank O'Connor uses irony to illustrate the conflict that soldiers feel when they recognize the humanity of their enemies and yet they are compelled to kill them. O'Connor suggests the soul destroying impact of the conflict in his final words: "And anything that happened to me afterwards, I never felt the same about again" (598).
Undoubtedly, the thought of living in, or forming a utopian society has flashed through nearly every person’s mind. A few people have even tried to make this ideal dream society a reality. Unfortunately, within the pursuit of these societies the leaders become corrupt and begin to become paranoid with the fear of rebellion. Hundreds of people were murdered during the reigns of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin in what they considered measures to maintain peace and stability within their respective “perfect” society. One must also consider the hardships that the citizens were forced to endure while living under these oppressive governments.
Since the beginning of mankind, it has been the need to attain a specific goal, which has driven humans to work hard. Without any ambition, humans would not be inspired to overcome adversities and challenge themselves to become increasingly adaptable. When one is motivated by certain factors in their environment, the probability of them being satisfied with the results of their deeds depends on the moral value of their inspiration. If the individual is aware of the fact that their deed is immoral, then no matter how dire their circumstances which forced them to perform the actions, they will not be content. The irony establishes itself in the fact that those characters who are motivated by a cause bigger than themselves, tend to be happier,
As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceived notion about the indoctrination, "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and perplexed. The story is not about heroism but about toil and futility and the divide between the idea of war and the real life and its values. The selected passages are full of violence and death and loss and a kind of perpetual suffering and terror that most of us have never and hopefully will never experience. Both authors ability to place the reader right there on the front line with the main character so vividly, not just in terms of what he physically experienced and witnessed All the complicated, intense and often completely numbed emotions that came along...
How can someone fully understand a tragedy such as the Holocaust? Many say the event ineffable to anyone who wasn’t there to begin with, but people are still striving to achieve complete or near complete comprehension. In order to do this people have used multiple media like books and recordings but the one that gives “the greatest illusion of authenticity” is movies. The purpose of Holocaust-filmmaking is to help people get a grasp on what it felt like to be in the middle of such a horrific thing as the Holocaust. If this isn’t done, then the true emotions won’t influence the audience who won’t find a way to preserve the history of the Holocaust and memories that took place in those awful times will be lost forever. Many films of the Holocaust
As evident from “The Great Dictator” in its entirety, Charlie Chaplin was a fantastic writer and speaker. He had successfully convinced his audience that change is possible through his choice of words and charisma. This speech is nothing short of motivational and has many characteristics within it that would help people understand his point of view and also come into agreement with him, those being ethos, organization, and pathos in particular. Although this was given several decades ago, it remains relatable today in terms of how things like money and power have blinded people and caused so much misery and destruction for the benefit of a few.
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