Imagine by John Lennon is a global well known song that everyone adores. However, no one really understands what the song resembles and what message was John Lennon trying to explain. John Lennon attempts to explain to us the world he sees as the perfect place to live by religion, countries and selfishness. John Lennon perceives religion by making the world a worse place than a better place. “Nothing to live or die for, or no religion too”(Lennon). This tells us that John Lennon believes that
In 1971, John Lennon released what would be the number one selling single of his solo career. John Lennon was well known as a musician and an outspoken political activist; many people believed “Imagine” was a Marxist critique of religion. Marx was known as an adamant communist. “Imagine” has several similarities to the Communist Manifesto written by Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. Karl Marx illustrates religion in a way that makes it seem like it is an illusion or fantasy. "'Imagine', which