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Class, Race and Corporate Power

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2020

Politics of Hope

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Revolution In The High Castle: Interpretation & The Political Implications Of Hope, Bryant W. Sculos Oct 2020

Revolution In The High Castle: Interpretation & The Political Implications Of Hope, Bryant W. Sculos

Class, Race and Corporate Power

This essay explores the politics of Amazon Prime's The Man in the High Castle by focusing primarily on how the series deals with the politics of hope, as well as how certain events in the narrative condition or exclude certain potential interpretations. The crux of the argument here is that the show tends towards a revolutionary conclusion, despite also bearing the marks of the depraved society this work emerged within.