In order to keep the ants working, the grasshoppers told their aunts that they would protect them from other dangerous insects, making the aunts feel as if their life depends on there, the proletariat can only survive by selling its workforce in exchange for work or in this case protection. One of the most famous lines in the film about how the grasshoppers depend on their aunts to survive "Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever get it out there it will end our way of life!" Furthermore, Marx said that it is possible that the working class can gain the upper hand over the owning class, at the end of the film, despite the grasshopper's power, the aunts defend themselves and achieve class consciousness to beat the class.
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