During its production, The Great Dictator wasn't to be released in Britain for fears that the Nazi party would wage war, but by the time the film was finished, Britain was already deep into war and the movie was released for its propagandist values. Chaplin had similar fears for the safety of the populous. Chaplin, in this speech, addressed Tomainia, a fictional analog of Germany, to bring to attention the horrors of the Nazi party, and what it’s doing to the soldiers and citizens. This is done by addressing the soldiers and citizens who follow him, and telling them the person and ideal that they are following is committing atrocities upon them and his citizens. Starting in line 9 and ending in line 16 Chaplin talks about how the good qualities …show more content…
The fact that he put in the word "despairing" makes the entire population of Tomainia (Germany) seem in dire trouble, and that the Double Cross (Nazi party) is pure evil. The paradox in line 23 even further makes the party sound evil; he states that "men torture and imprison innocent people", this doesn't make any sense because one does not simply torture innocent people, unless you are a wicked …show more content…
Also it again brings attention to the cruel, inhumane nature of the party. This is also meant to convince the soldiers to leave the allegiance of the Double Cross. In the rest of the section (33-35) the repetition of “You” over and over, 9 times to be specific, puts individual stress and guilt on every one of the soldiers the he is, in fact, responsible for the misery of millions of people. At the start of lines 38 to 46, Chaplin uses some clear appeal to authority when he quotes the 17th chapter of St. Luke "The kingdom of god is within man", then goes on to explain; "Not one man nor a group of men, but in all men" this strengthens the audience's power as a community by correlating them with the power of god, furthermore it also brings together the Jewish community and the Nazis as one race that should treat another with respect by stating that the world(Kingdom of God) belongs to everyone. He further draws the entire audience together by repeating the phrase "You, the people" a couple
I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies? … Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. … But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? The pray before You! They praise Your name! … I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man.” (Wiesel
Understating Hitler, denying the media, and not realizing the depth of Hitler’s evil, were all the motifs shown above and is proof on how the Jews of Sighet deny their warning signs of an upcoming holocaust. Heeding these signs may have granted many of them life in a place that manufactured death. And when the race toward death began, it was the village idiot that came out to be the smartest.
(2:17). Instead of “standing on the side lines and doing nothing”, Fred wants his viewer to walk away with a lesson that could change the result of a bad event. The author's purpose of creating this presentation was to inform the viewer that if “good people do nothing”evil will win. So even if we help, without even knowing, it can change the result, after terrible things
So he saw saw how war affected everyone because his job in the was was to carry the injured to get help. He saw what happened to everyone. So when he said “humanity I love you” it is ironic because at the end of the poem he said “humanity I hate you” which is a more accurate description of his feeling towards all of humanity, so what he means with this quote is that the governing leaders or every power are putting people 's lives in their pockets and then not caring so they sent them off to die in the war (WWI) because over 14 million soldiers died. They sat down and forgot that their are people dieing so they can sit down and drink tea. Just like Kat said “Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." (Chapter 3, pg. 41) if everyone got paid the same and everyone did their part then the war would be over a lot faster. Furthermore in Russia (when it was called the Soviet Union) Vladimir Lenin said, “Hundreds of billions of capital have been invested… bringing death, hunger, ruin... to the peoples.” This shows that the world was put into a crisis because of the “criminal war”. which
The fact that the Germans killed thousands of women, children and men, showed him that not everything happens for the best. He sees chance as the deciding factor in many of the prisoners’ fates and that by walking down the wrong side of the convoy, death could be the next step. Death does not occur for the best, and providence does not allow death to be good. Levi states, “It is in this way that one can understand the double sense of the term ‘extermination camp’, and it is now clear what we seek to express with the phrase: ‘to lie on the bottom’.
...tant to recognize this book is not “pro”- war for violence or killing, only “pro”-war in that this Great War had to be rationalized so that Jünger could survive. Jünger took pride in things that were appropriate for his time – the death of an enemy meant the potential survival of his Company and fighting alongside his brothers gave him a sense of fearlessness and purpose toward death. Jünger’s message seems to relate that it is sometimes necessary to fight in the name of family and to protect one’s nation. Jünger witnessed the brutality of the war and it shook him to a point of devastation (particularly after the Battle of Somme and toward the end), but he refused to allow it to overcome him and rejoiced in the short and simple moments of beauty in life.
...in fact, seem insanely chaotic. Our mindless support of self-centred political systems, of abuse of fellow human beings of different nationalities - it may well have appeared quite insane to him. The poem, therefore, delivers a strong message of warning: we must develop a stronger awareness, a care of what is happening, lest we, the collective we - humanity, the 'Idiot', are left in the ruins of our effort, alone, forever.
The next day, Hitler said that the English response meant that the German attack would commenec on Britain in a few days. Looking back at how these events unfolded, everyone should be glad that Hitler made such a mistake. I, for one couldn't believe that Hitler made this mistake. Throughout reading this entire book Hitler usually makes swift, decisive actions that get results and that is why Lukacs stresses this string of events in the book.Overall, this book is wonderfully written on a very interesting topic. The reader is put in the middle of a war of nerves and will between two men, one of which we have grown up to learn to hate. This only makes us even more emotional about the topic at hand. For a history book, it was surprisingly understandable and hard to put down. It enlightened me to the complex problems that existed in the most memorable three months this century.
Furthermore, the speaker gives insight on Mengele’s background information to express the idea on why Mengele was evil. Mengele was scientist that that did inhuman experiments on the Jews during the Holocaust for the research of his interest. Mengele was living in the environment of the Nazis and he was continuously influenced by Nazi . To further tell, from living in the Nazi community, his decision was altered because of how society was. Furthermore, he didn’t believe that killing Jews for his experiments was a bad or an evil thing because he was exposed to the massacre of Jew by the Nazi’s hands.
It might be easy to think of more miserable people than the unnamed group of people at this point of time in history, but surely their misery is certainly their undesirable kind. Brutality, distrust Horror is dispersed in the air, men breathe it in and die of it. The life of every man hung on a thin thread and the hope of being alive was tainted with convincing uncertainty. Trust and reliance sporadically gave way for mistrust and suspicion. It was certainly a world of no man’s life.
Along with rhetorical appeals, Wiesel also uses many rhetorical devices such as parallelism and anaphora. Wiesel depicts parallelism when he says, “to fight fascism, to fight dictatorship, to fight Hitler” (Wiesel lines 103-104). The parallelism and anaphora, in the quote, provide emphasis on the discrimination and abuse that has taken place around the world. Repeating the same initial phrase shows the significance of the words Wiesel is speaking. Wiesel mentions the victims of this extreme tragedy when he states,” for the children in the world, for the homeless for the victims of injustice, the victims of destiny and society.” (Wiesel lines 17-19). This use of anaphora and parallelism emphasize the amount of people the Holocaust has affected and impacted. The parallelism being used adds value to his opinions and balances the list of people Wiesel is making in his speech.
This declaration was as surprising as the justification behind it, for on page 81, that neighbor explains, “‘I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.’” This moment was something I could only describe as shocking, as it was the truth, or a crooked version of it. Hitler promised to exterminate the Jewish people
One must understand the effects of the war on the morality of humans - everyone is fighting for survival. With these extenuating factors and wartime conditions, the narrator must forgive the dying Nazi. Karl is honest in his desperate plea for forgiveness. Therefore, the narrator should allow Karl his temporary forgiveness until God and the ones sinned upon can make their personal decision of whether his sins are indeed justifiable.
I chose this quote because as I said before, it was one that stuck with me throughout the book. Not the direct text of the quote, but what the quote means to me. I see it as, Liesel does not agree with the Nazi party and how they view and treat Jews, however, to ensure her safety she says a 'hail Hitler'. Actions like these, ones that the Germans do so that they don't angry the Nazi party and ensure they are safe. In the case of the Hubbermans, they are people that do these actions out of an obligation to fulfill their duties as Germans, the leaders of the Nazi party. They are not doing things like saying, "hail Hitler" to every German they see because they believe in Hitlers actions, but they were doing it to keep themselves and their family safe from the cruel acts of punishment. In the quote and many times in the book we can see examples of the hesitation of acting towards the German
... of “strangeness”. He eventually finds himself regretting his visit home because it only increases the pain. Knowing this, Hitler does not wish for his civilians to see or experience the feelings of destroyed home lives that war causes. He realizes that this would prevent support for another world war.