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Saved By The Bell Analysis
Chuck Klosterman delves into the concept of overall coercion and deception with his strong analysis on the superficial topic of a television show in order to analyze society on a micro and macro level. Throughout the article, “Being Zack Morris”, Klosterman uses NBC’s coercion of their audience as an extended metaphor for the political corruption of the government due to consumerism and Marxism.
Klosterman psychoanalyzes the behavior of the characters in the television show, Saved By the Bell, to support the theory of symbolic interactionism. His slightly micro-theoretical approach uses a sociological analysis of the audience’s behavior to analogize society as a whole. Klosterman best portrays this idea with the example of adolescents lacking

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