Furthermore, in the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel Notes from the Underground, the main character, or the unnamed narrator known as the Underground Man, feels extremely alienated from society. The Underground Man consistently slips into a constant feeling of shame and self-loathing. His inability to associate and interact with society causes him to sink further into his underground madness of isolation. Madness caused by the alienation from society, shown in Notes From the Underground, is the type of insanity exemplified in the UK’s popular alternative band, Radiohead’s, third LP album, OK Computer. OK Computer is known as Radiohead’s stroke of genius.
Addiction to Chaos: The Monster that Lay Dormant Inside Chaos is a term used to describes situations that are erratic and lack order. This lack of order is something everyone to a certain degree has in common. All the people in the world have some form of chaos in their lives, but with authors like Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) and Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). A common motif that both of these books share is romanticism. By expressing a sense of rebellion against norms in society.
This view is supported by the orthodox historical opinion which is explained in source V by Michael Burleigh. He states that the “governement was characterised by multi-centred incoherence” because the different state institutions all competed to work towards the Fuhrer and his ideology. This is exemplified by the way in which different institutions focussed on Hitlers different views on how the economy should be used. On the one hand Hjalmar Schact, Reich Minister of Economics, tried to focus the economy on the living standards and employment opportunities for the public. On the other hand Hermann Goering, head of the Four Year Plan, aimed to focus the economy onto preparing the country for war.
Whereas a dystopian society in which everything is unpleasant or bad, and consists of totalitarian leadership. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, we consider it to be a dystopian novel, based on a few things. Because in dystopia, life consists of human’s misery, poverty, and violence and so on, it is controlled by a government that can do no wrong. If any one individual tries to degrade or go against the ruler, they will be punished and the people of the society know this. In this case, Winston Smith is described as ‘thin’ and ‘frail’ which shows us that he really is powerless, both physically “Winston stopped writing, partly because he was suffering from cramp” and mentally “Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen.
The film takes place in Britain in the year 2027, describing the devastation of the world due to nuclear and environment destruction, whereby women have become infertile. Through detailed use of the film’s mise-en-scene to the intertextual referencing present, ‘Children of Men’ reveals the dystopian conventions of oppressive governments, and the loss of hope and faith, leading to a truly unsettling reflection of modern society. The oppression of a society by its existing political system is an unsettling reflection that dystopia provides us as the desire to gain control of others will lead to a world becoming immoral. Today, we are frequently reminded of the overflow of refugees and the suppressive measures governments take to filter and refuse entry of refugees. Such a notion is deeply
Orwell demonstrates how the Party, by controlling history, forces its members into lives of uncertainty, ignorance, and total reliance upon the Party for all of the information necessary to function in the world. According to O’Brien, this is how the Party can ‘create human nature’, believing that all humans are ‘infinitely malleable’. This is true as far as the text is concerned. The Party has the ability to manipulate the minds of its subjects which is key to the breadth of its power. Winston’s desire to attain a unilateral, abstract understanding of the Party’s methods and evils in order to consider and reject them epitomizes his speculative, restless nature.
It is undeniable that there are a number of parallels between the protagonists of both Orwell’s ‘1984’ and the Wachowski brothers’ ‘The Matrix’. For instance, Neo and Winston Smith both, at one point in their lives, ascertain that something is ‘not right’ in the world they live in. Once this realisation has occurred, existentialist ideologies surface and the true motives of each protagonist are revealed, they are rebel figures, intent on opposing the government and
In which, society have their own conscience and beliefs replaced by those imposed from above. Secondly, this essay will show that ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ expounds that the human condition is completely corrupted and fraudulent. The inhabitants within ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’ are living in a overly dystopian world, where all males are exposed to the ‘germ’, which projects each individuals thoughts and beliefs into pictures and sound, called ‘the Noise’. The protagonist, Todd, lives in a town ruled by the evil autocrat, Mayor Prentiss, who dictates the lower class in society in a malevolent and spiteful manner, as shown by the character of ‘Big Brother’ in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. Finally with these conceptions of the novels arguments concerning the human condition it shall be shown that ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is more accurate than ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’, because of the idea that society is ruled by a number of different inconspicuous and discreet ways as shown in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’.
Passage Analysis Page 26-27 This passage is primarily concerned with the lost hopes and illusions of the American Dream that dwell within the uninterrupted desolation that is the Valley of Ashes. Referencing the monstrous eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and the aggressive and possessive nature of Tom Buchanan, Fitzgerald contrasts the grim wasteland and poverty of the Valley of Ashes, to the hedonism of the Eggs, and of New York City. The Valley of Ashes is a desolate wasteland, symbolic of the moral decay hidden behind the beautiful facades of the Eggs, and suggests that under the embellishment of West Egg and the mannered charm of East Egg, lies the same ugliness found in the Valley. “The motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.” The inclusion of the railroad symbolises progress; a pathway out of the dump that is the Valley of Ashes, and the longing for wealth and class by those who wish to “shrink away” from the reality which they cannot and do not want to accept. But these lower class patrons are left to “stare at the dismal scene” of the Valley of Ashes, on “waiting trains” demonstrating not only their failure in trying to grasp the American Dream, but the reality in which they can’t escape.
There have been extreme totalitarian systems were people have suffered the dejection of death, lack of food, hatred, torture and hopelessness, just like the INGSOC totalitarian system referred in the novel. We can compare the Ingsoc party with two totalitarianism movements and governments, such as Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, or commonly known as The Cultural Revolution, was a social movement that occurred between 1966 and 1976 and it was headed by Mao Zedong. According to historian Patricia Buckley (n.d), the aim of this revolution was “to attack the Four Olds-- old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits--in order to bring the areas of education, art and literature in line with Communist ideology.” However, this movement caused chaos throughout the country. This chaos was caused by Mao’s Red Guards, a group of civilians, mostly youth, who punished those who did not follow the new socialist system; intellectuals, artist and liberals were severely attacked.