Benito Cereno

Prior to 1938 Fascism had already asserted their power over the citizens of Italy. Just 13 years after Benito Mussolini, Duce of the Fascist regime, announced his intent to rule without Parliament; the Fascist regime had announced their Manifesto on Race which was published in Il Giornale d’Italia on July 14, 1938. Until this point, anti-Semitism was not a staple of the Fascist ideals and very little of a racial inferiority was mentioned towards the Jewish and other foreign nationals located in…

Themes of the doll’s house A Doll’s House is written by Henrik Ibsen in the year 1898 when he was traveling from Italy, Rome and Amalfi. Ibsen used A Doll’s House as one vehicle for questioning the importance—and the tyranny—of wealth. This play comes from Ibsen’s peak of radical ideasand when they were presented. Was written originally in Ibsen’s mother tongue Norwegian . The play was highly controversial when it was first published and since then it played am important role in Victorian…

In this essay I will go on a quest to try to identify and analyse the certain approach of “Bicycle Thieves” and the direction it had taken. I will be discussing about the overall impact that the film had on its audience and the importance of the subject of ‘realism’ displayed within the film. Ladri Di Biciclette which is the Italian Translation for Bicycle Thieves was filmed and then released in 1948, firstly in its native Italy and then again in the US as “The Bicycle Thief” just over a year…

During the 1930’s the Soviet Union was going through economical and military changes. Civilians were living through some hardships both physically, emotionally and mentally. Many of this could be looked at by how the leadership was dealing with the economy. World War I started before the murder of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 but this is what perpetuated it to start. How did the poor leadership from the government officials weaken the country econom-ically and militarily? The Soviet…

the people inside its large territory Hideki Tojyo,which was the prime minister of Japan at the time,introduced a system of government called “Militarism”.Adolf Hitler at the time period was one of the representative figure of Militarism as well as Benito Mussolini,Militarism not only support the idea of being an totalitarian country,but…

The two counties, Germany and Italy, are very different from each other. Both were affected by the French Revolution, which additionally allowed Napoleon to alter the minds of different politics so political movements changed in Europe as well. Throughout the nineteenth century, both Germany and Italy had various similarities and differences that were shown throughout Europe. Starting with Italy’s history, early in the 1800s after all that happened, the people wanted to start again, which was…

Hitler and Mussolini are known for their involvement in causing the Second World War as the Axis Alliance. But if we look into the alliance of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany we see two leaders who were really not the best of friends. In fact the two leaders had times when they were ready to go to war with one another. Their alliance was full of intentional secrets like Italy’s invasion of Albania which was a response to Germany’s unannounced takeover of Prague. Nevertheless, the two nations…

Mussolini and the Downfall of the Relish Regime By: Andrew Newbill, Noah Wallace, Hannah Simmons, Chloe Scott Mussolini cleans the mandibles of his moustache with a hot dog comb.He looks down upon the very pasta he has oppressed with mustardy reflection.The streets are covered in the gore of the pasta he has decimated.One standing in the street could easily smell the boiling noodles, if their senses weren’t overwhelmed with the vilified smell of evil: relish.…

From the end of the First World War, Italy was in a state of political and economic upheaval. The “mutilated victory” gave way to the beginnings of major political instability, and allowed the Fascist party to come to power. Fascism can be described as a “revolutionary form of nationalism” (Griffin, 1991). Mussolini himself said that Fascism is “everything in the state, nothing against the State, nothing outside the state.” Though the ideas associated with Fascism were new and seen as more of a…

In September 1937, Mussolini visited Germany. Hitler put on a major display of military power for Mussolini and by the end of the visit, Mussolini became convinced that Germany was the power he should ally with. He was sure that an alliance with Germany would lead to Italy becoming more powerful throughout Europe. As Germany had left the League of Nations in 1933, so Mussolini left the League in 1937 after the League had imposed economic sanctions on Italy for the invasion of Abyssinia. In…