Introduction

I . Dramatic Situation
John Lennon 's Imagine dramatizes the conflict between what he had
perceived as a threatening world with what he had conceived as an ideal
one . Isolating both heaven and earth which seemed to him as sources of
fear and disillusionment Lennon invoked people to imagine a world
without them without countries that only serve as instruments to divide
people bound by race , and culture . He proposed to get rid of all
religions which trigger conflicts in beliefs leading to religious wars
and finally , possessions that show the way to greed and hunger .
Lennon was addressing the people of his time who have lived in the
heyday of the Vietnam War in an era when conflicts between Capitalist
Nations and Communist Countries were escalating to a possible nuclear
war where political figures like the Kennedys , Martin Luther King Jr ,
among others were being assassinated . It was also a period when the
world was transitioning from conservatism to the radicalism of the 1960s
- the age of hippies and the emerging pop culture . Moreover , further
advancement in modern technology was paving the way to a revolution in
music the emergence of the feminist movement , and the socialist faction
sweeping across the Western World .
John Lennon himself had been undergoing a personal crisis of his own
The Beatles had just broken up . And for a man who had been accustomed
to much public adulation , the frustration such changes brought had
proved overwhelming that he had found it necessary to undergo...