THE WOMB OF HOPE AND LAUGHTER AGAINST MAN-HATRED: A FARCICAL ABSURDIST PORTRAYAL OF THIRD REICH IN JOJO RABBIT

Jince Joseph
Asst. Professor, Don Bosco Arts & Science College, Angadikadavu, Kannur, Kerala- 670706

Vol 17, No 06 ( 2022 )   |  Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6606958   |   Licensing: CC 4.0   |   Pg no: 6-13   |   Published on: 01-06-2022

Abstract
Man in the plural sense, often exhibited a centrifugal relationship with his very own self irrespective of expressing companionship and we- ness to his fellow beings. This self-centred consciousness was not limited to the individual but passed onto the ethnic clan sprouting seeds of hatred towards his own species by neglecting the inferior sex in the name of gender/ ethnic mapping. This segregation was experienced in its peaks during the era of Hitler in Germany, where he dreamt of ‘purifying’ the racial pollution from the soil of Germany and presenting it to the Aryan blood. The very idea of Hitler and his doctrines shrills terror in our nerves. On the contrary, in the film Jojo Rabbit, one gets to view an absurdist representation of the Hitler youth; promising ‘hope’ towards humanity irrespective of their ethnic/ gender identity. The film becomes a touch stone in constructing a new take on the conflicted pure and non- pure Aryan master race in Hitler’s Germany through the sensible representation of farce in the absurd logic of humanism injected to the selected characters in the film; where love snakes ethnic tensions blurring the impurity promising a womb full off seeds of hope and not man- hatred for the near future.

Keywords:
Inferior Sex, Gender, Ethnicity, Humanism, Farce, Man, Man- hatred, Hope, Laughter, Absurdity, Identity, Construct, Consciousness

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