1805-1859) Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion Richard John Neuhaus quotes Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. Alexei Sayle “Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species” ― Edward O. Wilson, The Ants food for thought???? “Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” Pat
George Orwell’s 1984 TOPIC: What are some of the core views about the relationship between language and power conveyed in the novel? George Orwell's '1984' reveals how the manipulation of language can lead to a totalitarian society and unrivalled power. Orwell’s focus is to portray how language can be used as an instrument of power, transforming an entire populace into an oppressed society. The novel conveys the result of totalitarianism through the manipulation of language, particularly with the use of media, including how easily the populace accepts propaganda as reality. The degradation of dialect reveals how it is almost entirely impossible to object to the Party’s core beliefs.
Cassidy Moss Romaguera English IV: E 13 October 2013 The Exploitation of Love and Technology In the Dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley create atmospheres that consist of their prediction of the future. “1984” and Brave New World contain totalitarian governments that encompass distorted views on the way societies should behave. Although the two leaders in the novels, Big Brother and His Fordship, carry out their regulations differently, the idea of how to control a society remains consistent. The key to maintain and establish a successful totalitarian society is through controlling the ideology toward personal relations and correctly using the advancement of technology for the “common good”. In 1984, Big Brother advocates a totalitarian society through controlling love and relationships.
Gattaca (1997), a science fiction drama film directed by Andrew Niccol and George Orwell’s 1984 both prose a number of concerns and issues. Each text illustrates a dystopian world featuring repressive social control systems, attempting to create a perfect society – that is, a Utopia as well as exploring the issue of conformity vs. rebellion. Throughout the texts, both characters keep their profiles and innate thoughts on low in hope to conceal their inherent intentions to infiltrate the societal strains compelled on them by the dominant government or corporation. These issues are instituted in Gattaca through the use of film techniques – lighting, background, props and costuming. In contrast, Orwell demonstrates these with the use of literary techniques and an unornamented writing style, reflecting the nature of the world of Oceania in 1984.
The book 1984 is written by George Orwell and was published in 1949 as a prediction of what would happen if Britain was run by totalitarian government. Specifically, the SparkNote’s 1984: Themes, Motifs, & Symbols, “1984 is a political novel written with the purpose of warning readers in the West of the dangers of totalitarian government.” Signifies the point. The story of this book is one man, Winston, against the whole government. Winston is rebelling against the party on his own and trying to survive. Then he meets Julia, fellow co-worker, who is also against the party.
Numerous controversial ideas have played profound stepping stones in societies climb to try and create the perfect society. The vision of a perfect world through self sacrifice was exploited by the government in the novels 1984, by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. These books portray the atmosphere of that perfect world through government control. In each novel a single character is outcaste because of his refusal to conform. This refusal leads the characters to an ultimate conflict with an individual closely related to the government.
In the literature review, “1984: Enigmas of Power,” by Irving Howe, an American literary and social critic, claims that the Oceania had some pretty keen resemblances to the immediate past of England, WWII, and he also argues that the patrols have more freedom than they should. He supports this claim by first describing the commonalities between the ways authorities treated the citizens, he says that the cruel way Winston was tortured, “the alternation between physical beatings and sympathetic conversations, and the appearance of O’Brian” with all that power, were methods used in the Soviet secret police. For example the “Two Minutes’ Hate,” was based on Stalinism’s routine demonization for his enemies, and Big Brother physically resembles Stalin.
1) In both Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 humanity is endangered by an all-powerful state, however I believe that Orwell’s 1984 endangers humanity more effectively. Humanity is being able to ignore the natural first instinct and care for others before you. It is being able to feel pain, sympathy, compassion, and mercy. It is to love others and enjoy company and accepting others for who they are. In Brave New World humans are created in assembly lines and are only created when the government needs a certain type of “human”.
Authoritarian governments control their people by stripping them of their individuality and liberty of free time. George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian novel about a government that has a firm hold on its citizen’s thoughts and actions. In this essay I am going to prove that although The Party watches and controls the way of life of its citizens, sometimes there are loop holes in their system. In this paragraph I am going to prove that the Party controls the people of Oceana by forcing them to attend organized groups and activities. The Party creates these groups and activities to replace free time.
Loss of Humanity Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, is a satirical piece of fiction, based on a false symbol of any type of universal happiness. Huxley writes about a society stripped of corrupt behavior, lack of morals, religion, essence of a family unit and human emotion. Huxley creates a dystopian world where a totalitarian government controls society by using technology and science. The price for happiness in the Brave New World is simple, loss of individualism. The purpose of this paper is to explain Huxley’s future predictions of a corrupt society seen through: controlled reproduction, sexual freedom, brain washing/sleep-teaching and the use of mind altering drugs.