ANTZ is not only a very entertaining animated-film but its also an excellent studying material for Social Study. Throughout the film there are many social study themes that pop up such as: bureaucracy, culture, and also ideas of various philosophers

could be a part of their culture, etc. Not only so, it seems like women and men in the ant’s colony are pretty much equal, the feminine ants might not be soldier but at least they are treated equally which is ideal to Rousseau and Plato .The population of the colony is 5 millions so in order to administer all the activities of the whole colony and put everything under control then bureaucracy is essential. As you can see clearly, all the labors are well-divided into sections doing different kinds of works: the workers dig the tunnel, the soldiers go to battles,… There’s also a personnel system with consistent patterns of recruitment as you can notice that they just keep on choosing randomly the baby ants to be a worker or a soldier. Last but not least, there’s a hierarchy among offices, such that the authority and status are differentially distributed among actors – there’s a General (an Ant named Mandible), a Colonel whose name is Cutter, they are the ones that control the army ‘’ in the name of the Queen ‘’. The Queen is the head of the Colony but actually General Mandible is the dictator, he’s the one that controls all the activities of the Colony. Maybe Locke won’t be happy with this but Hobbes will be quite pleased since he believes that a society must have an authority with absolute power to prevent civil war and maintain rule of law. So in the beginning, the form of government of the colony is a dictatorship but as the movie continues, you could see the transition of the colony from a totalitarian society to a democratic one which Plato would favor but Voltaire might not agree since he was always sceptical about democratic forms of government, and he thought that: ’’ Human beings  are very rarely worthy to govern themselves ’’. Let’s continue with the story, at first, the ants only know how to follow orders from their ‘’ bosses’’, they don’t think for themselves and they accept to do anything for the colony as General Mandible told the soldiers: ‘’… a soldier knows that a life of an individual ant doesn’t matter what matter is the colony. He’s willing to live for the colony, to fight for the colony and to die for the colony…’’. He follows collectivism. But the protagonist whose’ name is ‘’Z’’ follows individualism. He prefers to be independent and self-reliant rather than depending on the society. He simply wants more freedom. Barbatus - one of Z’s good fellow told Z before he died that: ‘’… think for yourself …’’. From that time, Z stands up and fights for his right for his freedom and so do the other ants. He totally changed their mind from just thinking for the colony to think more for themselves – this is exactly what Locke wanted to tell us centuries ago. However, an individual plays an important role in the society, the society also has a vital role towards individuals. People don’t just form societies for no reasons, they choose to form societies for reasons of security and because they want order as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes agreed. The ants live together in a society so they could work together and defend themselves against those horrible termites. In other words, society supports the individuals and together they co-exist.    The film exposed to us many aspects of a society and it also taught us a good lesson about social study. However, there are still ideas of various philosophers that haven’t come up in the film such as: the idea of equality of people before law, the separation of powers and what does it take to create the best form of government,…