When reading Benjamin's essay is possible to compare and relate to Percy essay, we're able to get an overview and analyze which positions each author takes about the individualism, or the exposure for masses of people, and the loss of sovereignty or the loss of aura. We can find similarities and differences between both essays and what each author defends or are against.
Benjamin takes the position of Marxist, he loves the idea of people having an equal chance to view the beauty of art but hates the idea of the art work loosing its contemplation and becoming a spectacle. He takes the position of being against the art being produced to masses of people, showing his concern with the loss of the authenticity of art, how its value from the original depreciates, resulting from changes in the conditions of media production and reproduction. How has art developed and how has it been affected by those conditions in our century today; revealed by the way he is thinking about more recent time, what is going on the contemporary lifestyle with different technologies, but also how this new conditions take power and work in shaping our minds to criticize and reflect about the fiction and reproduction of the original. Benjamin argues more on how art is based more on politics like Marxism, capitalism, communism and how society is divided in two classes, the bourgeois and the proletariat, where some are in favor of reproduction and some are not. He also illustrates the evolution of art throughout his essay, starting from when opportunities for reproducing the art were limited, only coins and woodcuts were produced. Benjamin shows that he's also in favor of reproduction, because in the time when reproduction were limited, art was only accessed by a rich class of people and with the mechanical reproduction art can be exposed to masses of people and produce copies more independent from the original. "For example, in photography, proc...