Day1: BEEP!! BEEP!! BEEP!! BE- SMACK!!! 6:30 - your late. Get up, sleep in the shower, make coffee, iron clothes, put them on, grab the iPod from the charger, say bye to parents and run out the door to catch the bus for school. Day 2: BEEP!! BEEP!! BEEP!! BE- SMACK!!! 6:30 - your late. Get up, sleep in the shower, make coffee, iron clothes, put them on, grab the iPod from the charger, say bye to parents and run out the door to catch the bus for school. Repeat for twenty-four hours a day, five days a week, for all but 2 months of the year, and you might explode if you don't get used to it. This is the world in which we live everyday. Obviously everyone has a different schedule, but for the most part it's RUSH RUSH RUSH!!! In the movie "Modern Times" a fast tempo, the loss of a man to his work and the effects of mechanization are recurring themes which will be dissected.
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Gregor Robertson, Founder of Happy PlanetAnother theme that continually came up in our studies of society and its people was alienation. Alienation comes in a number of different forms, some of which can actually be good for you. However, we will be discussing self-alienation, the type where it's hard to determine whether light is at the end of the tunnel or whether there is any light at all. One of several good books that enter all the nooks and crannies of this topic is the Metamorphosis. The concept of the diminished self as well as the Oedipus complex appears in this literary work, and will also be analyzed.
The first scene that really draws me in to "Modern Times" is the herd of sheep moving toward the screen in the same direction that turns into...