English 10 G 21 March 2012 Physiological Criticism in 1984 In 1984, a novel by George Orwell depicts a society under the regime of a corrupt and oppressive government. This government treated the people with harshness and unfairness, that lead the people to depression and desire to look for solutions to overcome their problems. Pressure and stress in 1984 Oceania's corrupt government encourages depression and self-medication on various citizens like Winston and Julia who are looking for solutions to overcome their psychological traumas. George Orwell creates a dark, depressing and pessimistic world where the government has full control over the citizens’ lives in the novel 1984. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a lower-party member who has grown to resent the society he is living in and starts to lose his rationality and sanity due to the restrictions of society.
People lose pieces of themselves, and sometimes, they don’t even know it. They lose the piece that makes them who they are, their humanity and this is all because of totalitarian social control, which obviously is dehumanizing. In Orewell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, it is seen that totalitarian social control is in fact, dehumanizing. There are some unanswered questions regarding these two novels, “Are these works warnings about the dehumanization effects of totalitarian social control?” It is believed that it is a warning. All forms of social control led to dehumanization in both 1984 and Brave New World, from monitoring telescreens, to the use of soma.
The violent events occurring throughout his life were his primary influence for Nineteen Eighty-Four, however continual illness and the death of his wife helped to form his morals and beliefs, which essentially influenced his greatest novels. The setting of Nineteen Eighty-Four is essentially influenced by Orwell’s sickness and the current state of war around the world. The novel is set in a particularly gloomy era, where Winston feels like everything is not quite right. "Orwell himself told his friends that 1984 would have been less gloomy had he not been so ill—it was a very dark, disturbing, and pessimistic work”. This gloomy atmosphere is influenced by Orwell’s current state of depression, as he has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and he is still recovering from his wife’s death.
Kirk Bauer English I Section 3287 Diane Mannone 11/22/09 Cannery Row – Materialism vs. Harmony In the novel Cannery Row, author John Steinbeck comments continually throughout the book on how the pursuit of materialism is almost always the cause of disharmony. Taking place so close to the disaster of the Great Depression, the book explores an area of life that was still sensitive to many people. The tone of the book reflects the opinion that pursuing material things leads to unhappiness and problems while the vagrant life frees one of those desires and the pain of loss when life takes them away. There are examples from both the economic and the natural worlds as the natural world represents the furthest extreme from the capitalist
There is also a large amount of self-loathing this is when you’re feeling worthless or guilty and are also harshly criticizing your mistake, choices or fault. 2) Explain in your own words the signs and symptoms of anxiety (ensure you use reliable websites e.g. government websites, book and the DVD on depression and suicide). Anxiety is when you are
He paints a picture that shows this life as a wasteland for the soul; he writes, ‘I will show you fear in a handful of dust’, portraying dust, similar to Fitzgerald, as something corrupt, creating a sense of foreboding for the society in that era. Moreover, the line, ‘April is the cruellest month’, is quite uncanny, as it is normally distinguished to be a pleasant time of year, when everything grows again. However, this could be a way of Eliot illustrating that
| |“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system.” Pt. 1|I think in this instance, he is talking about involuntary out-bursts| |Ch 5. pg. 63 |of anger or something along the lines of this. Especially in | | |Winston’s case, he has a lot of thoughts bottled up, some disturbing| | |one’s indeed, and he conceals them in his diary. However, people who| | |tend to bottle these harsh and strong feelings inside for long | | |periods of time tend to explode, sometimes unintentionally.
It has been said that when hearing about depressing or sad things it makes others sad or depressed as well. So in a way a depressed person who reads this book can in fact become even more depressed. All in all this book adds to teen depression, adds to teenage pregnancy and adds to the usage of vulgar language amongst teens. This book should be taken out of the school curriculum to help make Americans young adults lifestyle more
Through descriptive language of the narrators proposal to end child poverty and starvation, the narrator is putting the reader into utter disgust and shock due to what appears to be an inhumane solution to nation wide problem. The effect of doing this is that Swift has created an antagonist in the perception of the reader making them not only disagree but disgusted with everything the narrator is proposing. Swift uses the element development of character to portray the narrators profound proposition to the reader. The British Elite are failing to withhold their responsibilities in Ireland causing child poverty and starvation of the Irish people. Swift uses development of character to show the development of not the narrator himself but the reader.
Opponents of solitary confinement claim that it is a form of cruel and unusual punishment because of the lack of human contact and sensory deprivation which has a severe negative impact on a prisoner's mental state that leads to certain mental illnesses as depression.Delusions, panic, dissatisfaction with life and madness are all psychological side effects of solitary confinement and all of these are in the definition of chronophobia which is the duration or immensity of time, a state which is also referred to as prison neurosis. It is a fear of time and not being able to contain its proliferation (Meyer 2006). There are many psychological effects such as