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Comparing The Truman Show: The Component Of Freedom And Democracy

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The rise of television in the 1950s, over half of Americans owned televisions, brought in new ways to entertain people. One of these ways being Reality Television shows. There was a spike of these shows and their popularity in the late 1990s (Wikipedia, n.d.). Consequently, The Truman Show was released in 1998, it taking a extreme look into the ethics of Reality Televisions shows, one of the points being freedom and democracy. Democracy has been something important to certain societies for centuries. In America’s society it has since 1776. However, in the movie the creators take away the component of Freedom, which can be argued the biggest component of democracy. As Michelfelder quotes, “ The capacity for significance is where human freedom
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