The Great Dictator Essay

I chose among the list, the speech of the fabulous comic actor Charles Chaplin. When I started the video of him talking, I got surprised, because I know him as the movie without conversation. This speech wasn’t exactly from Charles Chaplin, but from his character of the movie “The Great Dictator”. The Great Dictator was Chaplin’s first film with dialogue. “Charles Chaplin came up with the idea to make this video, when Alexander Korda, his friend, noticed the physical resemblance between Charles Chaplin and Adolf Hitler. Later Chaplin discovered that he and Hitler were born only a week apart, had the same height and weight and were stillborn in poverty and then ascended. Chaplin decided to use this similarity to attack Hitler when he learned of the policy of racial oppression that the ruler was implemented in Germany” (Faquetti, 2018). When Chaplin announced the production of the movie, England soon disclosed that he would banish the film from his cinemas. At the time the country was seeking a conciliation with the Nazi government. By the time the film was released the situation had changed drastically since England and Germany were at war. The film was then used as a Nazi propaganda

It warns the populations and soldiers not to be influenced by the idea of Superiority. He challenges men, women, soldiers, children not to hate each other, to love and challenge soldiers to fight for peace and freedom and not to be commanded by those who do not tolerate and do not love. From his speech, we can conclude that the dictators do completely what they want from the population, dictating their deeds, their ideas and their thoughts, despising them, enslaving them and controlling their lives, which led to young people to be soldiers in order to obey to the functions intended by them thus emerging the war. His speech was a message for all of