We Have Metropolis Essay
“Modernist texts critique aspects of modernity.” Discuss how composers manipulate and appropriate textual forms and features in their responses to modern culture and values.
Modernity was a period that can be loosely defined as unconventional, progressive, unveiling the barrier of propaganda, cultural disenchantment and violent. Throughout the period, many aspects affected how composers viewed the world. With effects of war, effects of industrialisation and the corruption of political power, many composers of the time believed that they had to be the “conscience of society”. Through this idea, we have Metropolis, which is a 1927 German expressionism film directed by Fritz Lang; 1984, which was written in 1948 by George Orwell of a futuristic …show more content…
In 1984, there were three different class divisions, the Inner Party or high class, the Outer Party or the middle class, and the Proletariats or the poor. Due to the fast advancement in society and a formation of social hierarchy, there is the distinguishing between classes. This was caused by the creation of new jobs from industrialisation that was needed to cope with the new era, which saw machinery rapidly take over. It allowed for the working class, or the Proles in 1984 to be more distinguishable. "If there was hope, it must lie in the Proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated." From this quote, it is basically saying that the Proles or the working class have the best opportunity to destroy this class system, but the only problem is the control that the Inner Party have is so powerful that it would be not only illogical, but near impossible to break the barrier of propaganda, and realize the truth. By suggesting the idea of breaking the barrier of propaganda, Orwell was suggesting for a Marxist approach where the working class rose up to make society
Modernity was a period that can be loosely defined as unconventional, progressive, unveiling the barrier of propaganda, cultural disenchantment and violent. Throughout the period, many aspects affected how composers viewed the world. With effects of war, effects of industrialisation and the corruption of political power, many composers of the time believed that they had to be the “conscience of society”. Through this idea, we have Metropolis, which is a 1927 German expressionism film directed by Fritz Lang; 1984, which was written in 1948 by George Orwell of a futuristic …show more content…
In 1984, there were three different class divisions, the Inner Party or high class, the Outer Party or the middle class, and the Proletariats or the poor. Due to the fast advancement in society and a formation of social hierarchy, there is the distinguishing between classes. This was caused by the creation of new jobs from industrialisation that was needed to cope with the new era, which saw machinery rapidly take over. It allowed for the working class, or the Proles in 1984 to be more distinguishable. "If there was hope, it must lie in the Proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated." From this quote, it is basically saying that the Proles or the working class have the best opportunity to destroy this class system, but the only problem is the control that the Inner Party have is so powerful that it would be not only illogical, but near impossible to break the barrier of propaganda, and realize the truth. By suggesting the idea of breaking the barrier of propaganda, Orwell was suggesting for a Marxist approach where the working class rose up to make society