`Imagine` by John Lennon

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...