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Twentieth Century is characterized by "the two world wars" WWI and WWII. In which many liberalized and industrial movements have taken place.

If we see in both movies then one is published in 1936 and another is in 1940s. Therefore both are bridging the two wars.

In modern times, the questions of unemployment, hunger, human used as machines, obsession with speed and human's desire for basic necessities.

As the root cause of starvation is unemployment, how people wander in need for job and are flexible in doing any kind of job.

For Example

The Gamin collecting wood.

The man in prison weaving the cloth(seems an effect of liberalization and revolution in terms of feminism movement).

The humans mechanized as machines. As now and then the 'electro steel president' commands to speed up the machines, section wise and it happens, where he expects from workers to adapt and improvise with the speed.

Speed=Power/comparative head.

 

For Example

The 'hydro compressed stellar' machine for eating unconditionally(highlighted in one of the frames, in ppt).

Another side the ineligibility, in adaptability towards machinery is seen. Where with post-humanity and effect of human hollowness can be seen.

PPT is attached below

Modern literature modern_times from samiyakagdi

 

 

In 'the Great Dictator' which was a first sound movie. We are to see an overambitious, selfish, fragile, power hungry and cruel character in the form of Hitler himself.

PPT is attached below

Modern literature the_great_dictator from samiyakagdi

 

 

Thus in both the movies that bridges both the wars. It seems as both depicts modernism aptly. The elements of industrial disaster, economic fluctuations, madness for mass production as well as power hunger dictator can be seen, along with other supporting prospects. Which contribute in building and establishing power.

Works Cited 

"The Great Dictator." Wikipedia, wikimedia foundation, August 2020.

"The Great Dictator." Directed by Charlie Chaplin with Charlie Chaplin, performances by Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard etc, 1940.

"Modern Times." Directed by Charlie Chaplin with Charlie Chaplin, performances by Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman etc, 1936.