Water is a very pure substance. However, one drop of poison will pollute the water and make it undrinkable. Likewise, the idea of Communism is pure, egalitarian, and brilliant- everyone gets what they need and performs their fair share of work, and no one is superior to another. Unfortunately, the greed of the human race corrupts this dreamer 's utopia when people get paid the same no matter how hard they work. Like a drop of poison, corruption spreads throughout every heart, even to leaders in…
police force of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. When a student asks a question deemed too empathetic, his name is marked on the attendance sheet – clearly nothing good will happen to him (The Lives of Others). The society depicted in The Lives of Others has a separate school for aspiring members of the Stasi. The separation of this from the rest of the education system shows how deeply institutionalized into society they are. This scene also demonstrates the totalitarian ideal for…
There are numerous sorts of financial frameworks utilized all through the world. The frameworks comprise of Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, and Mixed Economy. Capitalism is a business sector based economy that is comprised of purchasers and merchants and/or individuals of private and corporate-claimed organizations. The results of merchandise and administrations are created to make a benefit that is required to be returned to the economy by the spending of the purchasers. The U.S. is thought…
Eagleton is a Marxist that is also a British literary theorist and critic. He was really interested in morality, ethics, and the question of truth. Reading “After Theory” Chapter 5 “ Truth, Virtue, and Objectivity”. In this chapter Eagleton talked about Truth, Virtue, Morality, Objectivity, and Ethics. This is because of the modern capitalistic society that we live in. When I was reading the chapter you can really see how Eagleton dissects how postmodernist see and understand Truth, Virtue,…
Animal Farm is the Orwell’s least personal of all of his writings. It is due to the unknown narrator who is notable for being prejudiceless and eccentricity. It is the only Orwell’s work where the author is not a major character or a narrator himself. The story is set in an unspecified time period and without many historical references but it is a short allegorical, satirical fable on the political situation around Russian Revolution which was, assumably, the time setting of the story, and it…
Leni Riefenstahl’s work in Triumph of the Will offered an idealized image of the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler. Throughout the documentary, Riefenstahl offers a positive representation of the Nazi government during the Sixth National Socialist Party Congress and as they interact with the German citizens. The score is kept consistently upbeat, and positive as Hitler is shown in the film, this reinforces that this is someone that the viewer should like. Riefenstahl used setting and imagery…
possibility of a democratic Socialist revolution, but there is also a considerable body of evidence outside Animal Farm that can be shown to corroborate this interpretation” (Letemendia 127). Letemendia elaborates that “Animal Farm was, according to its author, an attempt to strip away the mythical veil shrouding the Stalinist regime; simultaneously, however, he was trying to renew what had been lost through this deception and to revive the original spirit of the Socialist movement” (132).…
John Locke and Liberalism Martin A. Tornquist John Locke (1632-1704), the English philosopher and figure of the Enlightenment, has had a huge influence on developing political ideas that remain up to our present day. It’s hard to picture what, for example, the political landscape of the United States would look without him. In this text, I will look at some of his most prominent political ideas. John Locke is one of history’s most prominent purveyors of that elusive, desirable and dangerous…
The transgender actions of the stage create a realm where there’s a dualism between reality and fiction. When a character is portrayed in a believable manner, it’s likely because the actor has assumed at least some of the characteristics of the part they are playing. The fault lies in the dichotomy of the stage; the physical aspects take place in the actual sense anchoring them in reality. However the movements, lines and even the emotions are calculated and derived to evoke imagination and the…
Mao Zedong adopted an unindustrialized empire, plagued with famine and high inflation. Therefore, he formulated a Five Year Plan, similar to that of the Soviet Union, in order to adapt socialist ideals to Chinese conditions, and combat the early Republic’s social and economic issues. For example, Mao began to implement the Agrarian Reform Law of 1950, which required members of the Chinese Communist Party to educate and redistribute land to…