After The Bomb Upheaval Through The Collision Between Limitation And Freedom

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“The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.”
This statement by Carl Jung highlights the upheaval prevalent within the time After the Bomb both personally and collectively. The time After the Bomb was a collision between limitation and freedom, reflected through ways of thinking at the time that led to textual rebellions such as Sylvia Plath’s poetry, George Clooney’s film Goodnight and Good Luck and Harry Bluestein’s novel Cold War Games.

The poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath describes her feelings of oppression and her battle to come to grips with the issues of this power imbalance …show more content…

The differing representations of women within the text demonstrates the limitation of American women and the freedom of Soviet women in comparison. This is represented through the collision of communism and capitalism at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The capitalist women are seen to lack autonomy and value as represented through the degrading tone within, “To the post war American pubic, a woman’s place was in the home.” The line demonstrates the limited and restricted lives and ways of thinking forced upon women by the patriarchal world. However, in comparison communist women are seen to have more opportunity and independence witnessed through the accumulation within “They ‘work side by side with men as miners, ditch diggers, stevedores, and in similar occupations.” The line demonstrates the freedom held by Soviet women to withhold the same occupation as men, demonstrating an upheaval against the patriarchy found within the capitalist …show more content…

This role of dissent is represented by the magazine Sports illustrated, a company that was “not surprisingly…anti-communist”. Sports Illustrated presented a view that opposed that of Murrow’s See It Now, using the actions of Soviets at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics to provide reason against communism and communist sympathisers, supporting McCarthy. This is evident within “sports illustrated used the defectors to provide ‘a source of very cheap propaganda, which the American’s exploited at every opportunity.” This inference made by Bluestein demonstrates the power of influence media had over beliefs through demonstrating dissent within the capitalist world. As a result, media such as Sports Illustrated and See It Now are an upheaval against the beliefs of each other. Hence, through the freedom of media, Sports Illustrated was able to support McCarthy’s upheaval against communists through oppressing the capitalist world through fear of being associated with

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