Alexandra Alaurin September 13, 2015
Section A51 Metropolis Reflection Paper
From the year 1927 to 1945, the German cinema was intensely affected due to the environment in which the government had shown them. After Germany’s totalitarian ruler, Adolf Hitler came into power in Nazi Germany, they had changed Germany into a nation of unity and order spread across the county. With their leadership, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led the economic condition of Germany from the rise of inflation and lessened starvation in which led to the total support of the people.
Adolf Hitler along with the Nazi Party, introduced severe control among Germans in regards to their laws and regulations in which affected their culture. One of
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Freder Frederson, Johann’s son, is a witness to the barbarous maltreatment of the workers below the magnificent city who work as if they were robots themselves. Sometime in the film, Freder notices a woman, Maria with looks beyond compare. As Maria finds out that they have been seen by Freder, they disappear. Freder tries to follow Maria and discovers the truth about the citizens below Metropolis. He had witnessed the workers panic due to a horrible explosion in the machine rooms. Preyed upon what he had seen, Freder efforts to confront his father, only to recognize his father’s belief that the it righteous for the workers to live only below the city hidden and work …show more content…
As Freder discovers that she is not the real Maria, he now becomes the workers’ target but a man defends him and is stabbed to death. Following False Maria, they leave their posts, take charge into the machine rooms and destroys the central power area of Metropolis, the Heart Machine, leaving the machines into having system failures. With the workers leaving their children with nowhere to go, the real Maria who had escaped, round them up in the main square. WIth the help from Josaphat and Freder Frederson, they were able to flee the underground city as it had been devoured by the
The Nazi Party was revered and feared because they were able to exploit people’s fears. The Nazi party existed before the rise of Hitler, but they were a small and virtually unnoticeable party. The entire world was hit by an economic depression in the early 1930s and Germany was not immune. The people of the country were angry and impatient and feared that their parliament was too weak to rectify the economic situation.
The Nazis were oblivious about the devastation they caused as they were influenced by one of the most perilous motives: power, and the lack thereof. During the 1930s, the German citizens felt restricted by their circumstances as the country was in a bleak situation. Millions of citizens were affected by “the worldwide economic depression [which] provoked hyperinflation, social unrest and mass unemployment.” Hitler presented his party, the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party or more commonly known as Nazi Party, as the solution to their problems. It is deeply ingrained into human nature that when one is hopeless, one tends to believe whoever offers the slightest amount of hope.
The average German worker had supported Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party because both Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party had appealed to what the average German workers had wanted. After World War I, Germany had experienced a hyperinflation as a result of all the war reparations. The entire German population had become crazed as they were trying to make money in order to purchase food and other basic necessities.
He is not immune to rejection. He is isolated and lonely, so he is fascinated when he sees Clerval, Victor's friend, give his girlfriend a flower. In an effort to fit in he also gives the girlfriend, Justine, a flower. He hopes to make a new friend. Justine views him as a monster and runs away in panic.
1. What do you think could have been done differently back in the late 1930s to stop Adolf Hitler from spreading his dangerous ideas and liberating the people of their own stupidity? After watching it, I think there were several things that could have been done differently back in the late 1930s to stop Adolf Hitler from spreading his dangerous ideas and liberating the people of their own stupidity. One of the most important things that could have been done is to recognize and confront the underlying causes of the social, economic, and political unrest in Germany that paved the way for Hitler's rise to power.
In most sci-fi films, the future is dark, cold and mainly dystopic. Life as we know has evolved “for the better” due to the use and improvements of machine, artificial intelligence and technology. Our earth has been demolished and usually all other living creatures are long gone, plants no longer exist and natural resources are rare. For example, Blade Runner, The Matrix District 9 and Metropolis are a few of the films that illustrate a similar dystopic setting. They all centered on dark, tall black buildings that give off the same cold vision and concept that one person or corporation is in power.
While he dictated, the culture of Germany was changed. Hitler wanted to make the population all think and be one certain way. To make this happen he made, “ Musical performances, movies, and other cultural public activities...all meant to make German’s brains exactly like the Nazi, eliminating any other thought of anti-government”(1). By controlling what people watched and read, Hitler brainwashed Germans to think positively of him and the Nazi’s. The population was not able to freely read or watch any sort of literature or other arts.
When Justine’s mother and 3 siblings died, Caroline Frankenstein took poor Justine under her wing and provided the motherly love and affection Justine craved. After Caroline’s death, Justine was just as heartbroken as Victor was, for Caroline was a mother to them both. The Frankenstein household has many tragedies stored in its eaves. Hopefully, the future holds joy rather than sorrow. One of the many traits that set Justine above Victor is her integrity.
Then one day as the soldiers start loading up all of the Jews on trains again. They tell them that they 're going to a better place but somebody catches on and realize they were being sent to concentration camps to be killed off. As usual sylvia’s father comes up with a plan to save their little family, and a few others with children. Syvia 's family smuggled the children from cellar to cellar. Sylvia falls very weak because of the lack of food she’s been getting for so long.
Victor must overcome the truth behind Dad’s statement in an effort to save the lives of those who do not deserve death. Next, Henry Clerval is ruthlessly killed by Dad and Victor understands that his future wife, Elizabeth, will be his creature’s next victim. Completely unaware, Elizabeth is murdered in cold blood by Dad on her honeymoon. Victor’s own family and newly wedded wife were all innocently killed as a result of Victor’s initial treatment of Dad. The love Victor had for these people at the time causes him an extraordinary amount of pain and sickness.
Teachers had to always be careful about what they said around youth as they were encouraged to inform the authorities if a teacher were to say something that did not come in line with Nazi curriculum/ideology. In schools, textbooks also underwent changes; biology and history were most affected. History now spoke of the glory of Germany their fatherland and the magnificent feats that the country had accomplished under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Biology was changed the most, as it
Frankenstein’s mother, a character who’s non-existent for most of the novel, plays a big part of Victor’s ultimate demise. Soon after her death, Victor felt as though he could 've done more as if he could 've saved her. The absence of his mother drove Victor to invest into his interests and go to Ingolstadt. While at Ingolstadt, Victor became interested in the studies of science. “But this state of mind had place only in the first steps towards knowledge: the more fully I entered into the science, the more exclusively I pursued it for its own sake.”
In the late 1920’s, the Nazi party had little success but in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis came to power. Hitler was the leader of a small right-wing party with very extremist ideas. Within a couple of years this party was in control of Germany. The factors that caused Hitler’s success for the rise of Nazism has been studied ever since. Hitler’s organisation skills and personal traits helped to bring the Naizs into power.