Charlie Chaplin The Tramp Analysis
As a result of mechanization and industrialization in factories, where most men in 1930s earned their living, maintaining a stable job was made that much more difficult. Being sick or injured, whether it happened on or off site of the work place, could mean termination from the job to that individual. The development of the assembly line in factories made each worker expendable; because in an assembly line each person is assigned with different, single task that can be easily taught in a matter of minutes, even to someone who has no experience on the job. These kinds of problems faced by the “working poor” of America were greatly portrayed by Charlie Chaplin as “the tramp” and by Paulette Goddard as “the gamin” in their silent film, Modern
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Everything seems to be in chaos and everything good that came toward Chaplin disappeared just as quickly as he go them. He was arrested for being suspected to be the leader of the strike he happened to stumble upon (Modern np). Looking at it with today's perspective, going to jail is a very bad and unfortunate event to happen to anyone who was dealt with unjustly. However, at the time of the film's release, it was not the case. People often did petty crimes for the sole purpose of being thrown and locked up in jail. This way they were ensured to have meals everyday without having to work. It was hard enough to find work and when they did it was not a very pleasant one. According to the recollections of Rebecca Harding Davis in her Life in the Iron-Mills, she knew “only the outline of a dull life, that long since, with thousands of dull lives like its own, was vainly lived and lost: thousands of them, massed, vile, slimy lives, like those of the torpid lizards in yonder stagnant water-butt” (Davis 2). People in the iron mill worked hard in hopes that someday they will reach the same class as the visitors who comes to admire the korl sculpture. It's the ideal we believe in as fellow Americans, that we can reach any heights if we just worked hard despite all the difficulties we may face, for America was and is still known throughout the world to be “the land of
Everything seems to be in chaos and everything good that came toward Chaplin disappeared just as quickly as he go them. He was arrested for being suspected to be the leader of the strike he happened to stumble upon (Modern np). Looking at it with today's perspective, going to jail is a very bad and unfortunate event to happen to anyone who was dealt with unjustly. However, at the time of the film's release, it was not the case. People often did petty crimes for the sole purpose of being thrown and locked up in jail. This way they were ensured to have meals everyday without having to work. It was hard enough to find work and when they did it was not a very pleasant one. According to the recollections of Rebecca Harding Davis in her Life in the Iron-Mills, she knew “only the outline of a dull life, that long since, with thousands of dull lives like its own, was vainly lived and lost: thousands of them, massed, vile, slimy lives, like those of the torpid lizards in yonder stagnant water-butt” (Davis 2). People in the iron mill worked hard in hopes that someday they will reach the same class as the visitors who comes to admire the korl sculpture. It's the ideal we believe in as fellow Americans, that we can reach any heights if we just worked hard despite all the difficulties we may face, for America was and is still known throughout the world to be “the land of