What happened to Chaplin’s character in the clip?

What happened to Chaplin’s character in the clip?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Demonstrate that you can identify an argument in a variety of texts and visual media.

PART 1

An argument can be made in any type of text, including a visual medium such as a film. The following video is a clip from Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 silent movie “Modern Times.” In the scene, the main character, (the “Little Tramp,” played by Chaplin) is frantically at work on a factory assembly line before throwing himself into the mouth of the feeding machine. Watch the following clip before posting your answers to the following questions below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n9ESFJTnHs&feature=youtu.be

PART 2

Answer the following questions. Each numbered response should be a total of 100 words or more and post your responses

for students

1. What happened to Chaplin’s character in the clip? Why does he act in such a bizarre manner? What argument might Chaplin be making about the effects factory work or industrialization in general have on the human psyche? How do you know this? Make sure you point to examples from the clip when discussing your answer.
2. What might the title of the movie, “Modern Times,” have to do with the argument? What is implied by the phrase “modern times”? How were previous time periods or historical periods different from the one depicted in the movie? Is our time period much different? How is it similar and how is it different?

PART 3

Please respond to at least 2 classmates after finsh Inatiol post . Make sure to engage with what your classmates have written. When responding, consider the following questions:

• Did they identify the same argument in the text as you?
• Did they make an interesting point?
• Did they have a particular insight you hadn’t thought of?
• Do you agree or disagree with something they said and if so, explain why.