Charlie Chaplin’s Look Up Hannah Presented by: Amy Smith, Emily Brown, Lia Gosso
Contents Background information Plot About Charlie Purpose Audience Structure Rhetorical devices Language Tone and Voice
Background Movie/speech Information American political satire comedy drama 1940 Political speech Germany and Osterlich
Plot Dictators( Hynekels ) doppelganger Hynkel orders a purge of the Jews Barber escapes from care-home many years later to go back to the ghetto with his girlfriend named Hannah Stormtroopers search the ghetto, arresting the barber, and Hannah, with her family escape to Osterlich and they become farm laborers. After a failed attempt to ally with Napaloni (Mussolini), Hynkel invades Osterlich. The family is now under Hynekels control Jewish barber escapes from camp by wearing stolen uniforms. They arrive at the Osterlich border while a parade is waiting for Hynekel to talk. Hynekel was duck hunting in regular clothes and is mistaken for the jewish barber, and arrested. The Jewish barber, forced onto the stage presented as Hynekel, delivers the famous speech
About Charlie Main character Jewish Barber Dictator’s twin Girlfriend Hannah
About the speech Communism to democracy Everyone is allowed their own opinion Do not let people control you Speech of hope and encouragement
Purpose To change Germany from communism to democracy To inform people about the way they should be living To inform people that dictatorship is not the right way to live
Audience Movie= German people and soldiers Contextually=directed to people and the government as a whole
Structure 1. Introducing himself (I don’t want to rule) 2. Describing Utopia (the way of life can be free and beautiful) 3. Introducing the problem (we think to much and feel to little) 4. What we could do (Soldiers- don’t give yourself to brutes) 5. Encourages them ( you the people have the power) 6. Gives hope (We are coming into a new world)
Rhetorical Devices Imagery Anaphora(look up) Symbolism Alliteration Personification
Language Simple Easy to understand Honest From the heart
Tone and Voice Starts off soft and quiet Gradually becomes… Faster Stronger Louder More body movement
Works Cited Wikipedia, “The Great Dictator”, 13 April 2016, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.,