Stasi

In America, free speech has been a privilege that has been used to its extent but that has also been criticized and censored. In the current state of our country, free speech has been both expressed and censored to a maximum because of different viewpoints that people have. The people who are trying to censor everyone else’s free speech do so because of various reasons that are essentially harming to our country as a whole. The reasons that cause for censorship of certain forms of free speech…

The Fairytale titled The Bremen Town-Musicians was published by the brothers Grimm in their collection of fairy tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812). The tale itself has a long cultural legacy, with adaptations to stage, film, animation, and a series of sculptures depicting the main characters, the donkey, the dog, the cat, and the chicken stacked on top of each other. It being a fairytale, it is rife with imagery and metaphor, basic building blocks for meaning and lessons in allegory. So what is…

process of an interrogation that turned out to be a lecture given by Captain Gerd Wiesler. This scene introduced background of the era that was portrayed in the movie. The movie took place in East Germany during the 1980s where Stasi government was in control. In this Stasi government, there was minimal or no personal liberty. The suspect was not allowed to sleep throughout the integration, which took place for 40 hours because Wiesler believes that the suspect was hiding something. The suspect…

Wiesler was first shown giving a lecture of investigation to a group of college students before being asked to come and join the Stasi for an investigation.…

Gerta about Anna’s bother plans to escape East Germany. The next morning, while walking to school, Gerta spots her father. He was pantomiming a dance, telling her to dig. Later on, they found out Anna’s brother, Peter, did no make it out alive. The Stasi found out that Frtiz knew about Peter’s plan before hand, so they bugged their house with microphones. Anna’s parents asked her to stay away from the Lowe’s. Anna and Gerta were both devested about not being friends but, blamed her brother’s…

as scarecrows. The structure in this section is very unique as the rhyme scheme is ABCACBA in the second half of the first paragraph. This is carefully structured to show that the trapped hollow men are going round in circles and are in a sense of stasis. This is a very subtle gesture by Eliot but still again adds to the connotations of purgatory. The form of the second section…

break away from the status quo of a male dominant society and elope with her lover, frank, to a world where happiness awaits her. In Eveline Joyce employs signature craft elements to show the minds’ ability to imprison/entrap people into a state of stasis and isolation Eveline is narrated in third person point of view to show ultimately Eveline’s choice lies within herself. The change that she seeks lies within her. She can be the master of her own destiny if she chooses. The only obstacle…

The film, The Lives of Others, portrays an example of how human beings are in conflict with other human beings simply because they have no understanding of the lives of others. The main character of the movie, Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, seemed to change his views throughout the film constantly simply because he became aware of the lives of others. There are many scenes in the movie in which Wiesler’s actions would be considered moral on Kantian grounds. For instance, Wiesler’s character starts…

Give some examples of how the Stasi and KGB used double agents during the cold war. One example on how the Stasi used double agents is the story of Kim Philly. He was one of Stasi’s best double agents. He got into Britain's heart and was getting information for them for 3 decades. The way he was able to get so close and get so much information is that he was a very important part of Britain's secret services. He was able to climb his way up the ladder of importance very quickly. He was…

forms and permission from the government which was extremely hard to get. People in the West were free to move within the two sides of Berlin as they pleased whereas people in the East were stuck on their side with the strict laws and close eye of the Stasi. Appendix 2, shows a man waiting at the wall for his daughter to return after not seeing her for twenty-six years. This photo shows how hard the wall was on families and loved ones on the other side to what you were. It shows the effect on…