How Does Charlie Chaplin Use Of Dehumanization

Chaplin’s Modern Times criticizes the growing of industrialization before the Great Depression. Charlie Chaplin utilizes humor based on exaggeration to highlight negative aspects between man and machine. Work starts inside a steel factory, under the supervision of the top manager, who observes the entire operation on big television screens. The workers work in an assembly line. Charlie Chaplin’s character the Tramp, tightens screws on boards that pass by. His repetitive movements are so machine-like and tense, that when he stops he continues to move like he is still screwing bolts. The slightest distraction would interfere with the process of production. There is no time to waste, because time is money. When a bee starts circling Charlie's face, he gets distracted and lost track of one of the boards passing by. He has to run down the assembly line to catch up and do the required tightening, and in the process he interrupts the assembly process.The pressure of keeping up with the fast pace of the assembly line proves too much for the fragile worker, sending him into a nervous breakdown, which involves squirting oil into the faces of his co workers and the cops as they drag him away to the hospital. The whole picture of working in the steel industry depicts dehumanization of the …show more content…
One of his failures includes his behavior. Trouble seems to pursue the Tramp, like when he accidentally led a protest by picking up a red flag and waved it, the cops showed up and saw him and accused him of being the leader. One of the reasons why Charlie likes jail is because he has a secure bed, food and privileges. When he helps rescue the guards from the delinquents he is given special treatment, the guards treat him with respect, he can have his cell open and can have conversations with the guards. Jail was a secure place, he was guaranteed food and a bed, jail was a dream compared to the real world where he was struggling to eat and find a