Film Embodiment Metaphor Democracy and Chaplin

The famous dance scene from The Great Dictator (1940) where the dictator Adenoid Hynkel (Chaplin) plays with the globe to the accompaniment of Wagner's Lohengrin. The physical presence of Chaplin's character is comic and filled with pathos. The final emergence of the rubber chicken turns the sequence to farce.

And if you are wondering how close the government of your own country is moving towards despotism:
"Avoid the comforting idea that the mere form of a government can safeguard a nation against despotism"


Despotism & Democracy
Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946
Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales?