In what ways does "Modern times" capture the main features of an industrial capitalist society?
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In what ways does "Modern times" capture the main features of an industrial capitalist society? From this essay, I hope to reflect the characteristics of a industrial capitalist society, a society where a system creates capital through the exploitation of wage labour and the commodity of the production for sales by separating workers from any property owner rights and by manufacturing the means of a factory system e.g. through assembly lines which was known to prove depression to many workers. The film Modern Times directed by Charles Chaplin was known to represent political issues because of how Chaplin created political overtones due to his representation of assembly lines, the industrial practices and urban misery that an industrial capitalist society created and so from this essay I hope to present an overview of a capitalist society through explicit examples represented by Chaplin in his film Modern times. However it is...

