A New Trick

This presentation of second and third generation settling community tale defiles diversity in such a short space of time by presenting it as unclean. The 34 year old D.W. Griffith does this by offering to the audience his interpretation of the new people of America; the settling community, not far removed from his own Griffithiana community. They are a consummated people, opposing diversity and carefully avoiding the marginalized. Anyone who is on the fringes of society is demonised in his world, relegated into the shadows with no voice at all. The themes are encoded, presented in a subtle way in the form of paradigm so that he can contrast for the audience what he sees as desirable.