Essay on the Great Dictator Speech

Speeches are one of the world’s greatest ways of preaching what you believe and how you feel about something that is relatively important to you. The emotion and characterization of a speech defines or symbolizes who the person giving the speech is and what their goals are. Many speakers, private or public, are given the chance to elaborate on issues that they feel that their opinion is of great value. Charlie Chaplin’s speech in the movie, The Great Dictator, is a prime example of somebody taking what it is that they believe and emotionally stating it to a group of people. The Great Dictator, also the name of the speech, is about how the human race wants more than to be controlled and wish to be closer and unite together. It expresses what the people have to achieve a free world and “do away with greed, hate and intolerance” (Chaplin, 1940). It screams to fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
In his speech Charlie Chaplin expresses the way he feels about how the people elect others and how they find them suitable to lead when in reality the people that rise to power lie and do not fulfill their promise to society. C haplin explains:
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world.
The way that democracy works leads to this happening all the time. It allows for great men to become manipulated by politics, power, and greed. Cultures and societies everywhere experience what Chaplin is talking about and it is not enough to just elect these brutes, as he calls them; the people must fight for what we have made possible in our lives to still be in our lives and not let those things over power us. Over the last 400 years new machinery and technology has been introduced to the American society