Intertextual Perspectives Dictatorship Between 1984 'And Metropolis'
“Technology facilitates dictatorship”
To what extent does your comparative study of the intertextual perspectives of Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflect this statement?
The extent of which technology facilitates a totalitarian regime is elucidated by the comparative study of the composers’ intertextual perspectives. Despite living in different time periods, both George Orwell’s 1984 and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis convey their perspectives of technology as beings factors that bolster a dictatorship. ******
Technology is a factor which integrates individuals into the totalitarian system thus replacing individualism with conformity and obedience to the state.
Individuals are converted into subservience to the state by technology thus conveying the significant extent to which technology facilitates autocracy. This …show more content…
The workers’ robotic movements are characteristic of German Expressionism where the characters are extensions of the set hence emphasising the integration of the characters into the mise en scene and through this, Lang emphasises technology’s conversion of workers into the machinery that serve to perpetuate and support Fredersen’s bourgeoisie rule. Here, Lang expresses his values of humanism as he disapproved of the dehumanisation of industrial workers which was defined by the abysmal ten hour work shifts and the poor labour conditions that many Weimar proletariats faced. This idea****** is further developed by the montage of mid shots of the technological equipment in Rotwang’s lab during the conversion of Maria into her antithetical doppelganger. Lang uses this montage to emphasise technology’s drastic influence on the transformation of egalitarian Maria into a doppelganger subservient to the Fredersen dictatorship. Here, Lang elucidates Maria’s integration into the capitalist system through technology’s annulment of her beliefs such that she
To what extent does your comparative study of the intertextual perspectives of Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflect this statement?
The extent of which technology facilitates a totalitarian regime is elucidated by the comparative study of the composers’ intertextual perspectives. Despite living in different time periods, both George Orwell’s 1984 and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis convey their perspectives of technology as beings factors that bolster a dictatorship. ******
Technology is a factor which integrates individuals into the totalitarian system thus replacing individualism with conformity and obedience to the state.
Individuals are converted into subservience to the state by technology thus conveying the significant extent to which technology facilitates autocracy. This …show more content…
The workers’ robotic movements are characteristic of German Expressionism where the characters are extensions of the set hence emphasising the integration of the characters into the mise en scene and through this, Lang emphasises technology’s conversion of workers into the machinery that serve to perpetuate and support Fredersen’s bourgeoisie rule. Here, Lang expresses his values of humanism as he disapproved of the dehumanisation of industrial workers which was defined by the abysmal ten hour work shifts and the poor labour conditions that many Weimar proletariats faced. This idea****** is further developed by the montage of mid shots of the technological equipment in Rotwang’s lab during the conversion of Maria into her antithetical doppelganger. Lang uses this montage to emphasise technology’s drastic influence on the transformation of egalitarian Maria into a doppelganger subservient to the Fredersen dictatorship. Here, Lang elucidates Maria’s integration into the capitalist system through technology’s annulment of her beliefs such that she