Charlie Chaplin: Raving Lunatic, Communist Threat, or American Icon?
In this essay, I want to prove that Charlie Chaplin played an important role in the early development of comedy in films. Many people did not fully understand Charlie Chaplin for what he truly was, a genius. "Chaplin has been a man of position so long that it is difficult to think of him as an apprentice struggling to make his way. Yet up to the time of his success, when he was about twenty five, his life was anything but easy." (Jacobs 227) We always think of Charlie Chaplin as this huge American icon and never think of him as the struggling actor. "To have such far reaching influence, a man must be extraordinary. Yet when we view him with his doleful countenance and foolish mustache, his ill fitting derby, his absurd shoes, his gentleman's cane, his ineffectual gait, we see a child; a child playing grown-up." (Jacobs 227) His childhood shows that he started as an almost normal boy.
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