... where the crowd seeks to swallow the individual. However, From studding both "walking ion the city and "modern times" one can see after several studies on them, that this is not the entire picture. A sense of identity can be obtainable. This is represented by Charlie Chaplin. 'Modern times' illustrates to its audience how the city becomes a symbol of modernity- "a place of alienated subjects". It similarly, depicts the city as a machine with the introduction of factories and industries dehumanizing the workers and additionally portrays the individual being subjugated by the large crowds. However the picture painted above of an unreal, dehumanized urban center is not the entire picture. Charlie Chaplin is the individual who is produced by the mass and thought this individuality by never 'quite fitting in'; he emphasizes the 'resistance' to various social forces around him. We are first introduced to Charlie Chaplin while he is working ...

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