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    Charlie Chaplin, like many immigrants from Britain, moved to America for the chance to benefit from the boom that was taking place in America in the 20th century. The child of two artists, he found his vocation in theater and cinema. Without saying a word, his films broke barriers in a time far removed in the United States and around the world. , characters like the Tramp became an instant classic. but his most controversial film to date is The Great Dictator. When the great dictator was to be released, most Americans were isolationists because of the financial and human cost. Any type of interventionist form of media was almost banned by the people, the churches and a small section of Hollywood. An organization was created to limit and control political propaganda emanating from Hollywood called PCA and it defined "propaganda is the expression of opinions or actions deliberately carried out by individuals or groups with the aim of influencing the opinions or actions of other individuals or groups for predetermined purposes through psychological manipulation.” The great dictator tried to escape the propaganda label, but Chaplin failed miserably, although he managed to escape the grip of the PCA by using comedy to sugarcoat the propaganda. ridiculed Nzai's army through the action of a character named Hynkle, who has a similar resemblance to Hitler, who downplayed the strength of the army and humanized this great called dictator. The emotional response is strengthening U.S. and ally morale and a sense of security and confidence in the home front. .The final speech was crude propaganda, but by sheer genius, Chaplin delivered the speech from a neutral angle by abandoning his hynkel character, who automatically draws middle of paper......f gibberish like "chees a crackers " mixed with German. As his speech becomes very inedible and more aggressive, the translator says "his Excellency has just said something about the Jewish people." It is at this point that you will see Hynkel's relationship with the Jews. Chaplin succeeds in portraying Hynkel the great dictator himself as a man who can do nothing right. The propaganda could not be concealed when it came to Chaplin's final speech at the end of the film. Although Charlie Chaplin tries to avoid propaganda by "calling for universal peace rather than a specific plan of action". But Chaplin failed miserably because he went out of character to convince a group of people to rise up against the didtators. The only known dictators were Hynkel and Benzino. "Through the promise of these things, the brutes rose to power. enslave the people “.