The Great Dictator

In the Great Dictator Charles Chaplin makes a parody of Hitler.  Chaplin uses Dadaism through out the film to make his points.  He does this even before the United States declares war on Germany.  People around the world knew that Hitler was not a good person but they did not know the full extent of his evil until later.  When Commander Schultz saves the Jewish barber and Hanna he realized that the man who saved his life at the end of WWI was not an Aryan but rather a Jew.  This is showing that the Jewish people were not bad and did not do anything wrong to the Germans and yet they were being killed as if they committed a crime.  Adenoid Hynkel becomes obsessed with taking over the world and there is a scene that we see him jumping on a inflatable globe.  This is to show that Hynkel is trying to take over the world if he does he does accomplish this he will destroy the world and there would be no world to be a dictator over.  Hynkel later in the film continues to kill the Jews and when one of his top men Schultz objects to him he is captured and put into the camps with the Jews.  This show that Hitler killed anyone who opposed him and considered them as if they committed treason.  Hitler did not take to opposition very well and he killed anyone that did. At the end of the film when the barber takes over power and tells the people that it is a new day that they are coming out of the darkness and going into the light.  This is showing that the only way for there to be peace in the world is if Hitler is removed from power and another leader takes over that understood the pain of the people.  Chaplin was telling the American people that Hitler needs to be removed and by the barber talking to Hanna in his speech Chaplin was talking to each person of the public and telling them that they have a responsibility to do something to stop Hitler.