Elizabeth Williams Honors English 12 8/9/10 Brainwashing: 1984 In 1984 the party had complete totalitarian control over the citizens of Oceania. All of the current events, political figures, and even daily schedules were determined and changed by the government. Nothing was ever accounted for as what it truly was. Everything that we fight for today such as freedom of speech were raped from the liberties of all of the citizens. This was achieved by means of brain washing.
Quote 2: "WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." Part 1, Chapter 1, pg. 6 Quote 3: "A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic." Part 1, Chapter 1, pg. 16 Q 4:one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended."
Now it is being said the Fourth Amendment’s promise of protection from government invasion of privacy is in danger of being replaced by the futuristic surveillance state Orwell described (Liptak, 2011).” By the same token, does 1984 present a startling and haunting vision of the world today? In Chapter One, Orwell writes about “Big Brother,” the authoritarian leader of Oceania, a totalitarian state where the ruling Party wields total power for its own sake over the inhabitants. Big Brother is the face of the Party and he sees all, knows all and controls all. Big Brother is watching everyone. The citizens are told that he is the leader of the nation and the head of the Party.
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’.
George Orwell (1903-1950), was an English novelist, essayist, journalists, and critic. His writing focuses around totalitarianism, government over controlling.Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel about a totalitarian government that oppresses its people and controls all aspects of their lives. The intended audience is a past WWII population who feared total government control. Orwell believes that the government should not have all control over the people and in 1984 they are always being watched and cannot do anything in privacy. Many writers have pointed out similarities between the modern world and the world of 1984 such as in the articles.
Note - "We have to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if worse comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." And - "You gringos have spilled enough of our blood, now it's your turn to bleed, you [expletive] sub-human beasts." The above two racist hate quotes are by University of Texas Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez in a public speech. Gutierrez is also the founder of 'La Raza' which is exclusively for the Hispanic race. For everything and everyone OUTSIDE the race - nothing!
“Nazi Germany gave us a big ungainly word, yet one that we still use: totalitarianism. We may even throw it around too loosely, applying it to a lot of foreign leaders whom we don’t like. But heres what it meant in the context of Nazi Germany: the destruction of all persons and groups that would challenge Hitler’s supremacy. This destruction singled out not only the Jews but also most intellectuals, the Communists and the Socialists, the labour unions, the Catholic Church, parts of the Lutheran ministry and even elements of the Nazi movement itself. Nazism was a revolution, and revolutions tend to devour their own.” The words of Robert Smith Thompson (2003, 141) have just described the crisis that was facing the Weimar Republic in the years 1933-1939.
His pent - up rage is expressed again in the final stanza “ Hands burn for a stone, a bomb to shiver down the glass”. This shows the frustration of the place and, possibly, the loss of solidarity, the fears among his people. Afrika.s sense of injustice is powerfully highlighted with the effective imagery of the “purple flowering amiable weeds” and the nefarious “crushed white ice; the single rose” which he turns into symbol of white oppression. The ending is stark and poignant as he feels those old feelings of oppression as his hands burn for a bomb to “shiver down the glass”.
The 20th century novel 1984 by George Orwell is a dystopian text where a totalitarian government has taken full control of its populous. It is in this world crafted by Orwell where we as readers are immersed into the life of the protagonist, Winston Smith. The novel may have been written as a warning to the people against the adverse effects of a totalitarian government as Orwell wrote his novel in the wake of World War II and in the face of fascism. This message is conveyed throughout the novel but it is most effectively portrayed through the characters that inhabit the world of 1984 and this is explored none more so than through the main protagonist himself Winston Smith. This character’s development is highly significant as it contributes to the novel and Orwell does this in a variety of ways.
One of the first ideas that becomes very clear when reading 1984 is the controlling government that easily resembles a totalitarian style society similar to those in the mid-twentieth century. One example is Big Brother, who is a supposed omnipotent figure who also limits and controls society the way he wants it to be. While Big Brother is more a title than anything else, his name puts fear in the people of Oceania similar to the way the names of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong put fear in the people of the world ("1984."). These men were also powerful dictators who used their powers to force their wants on the people, much in the same way as Big Brother. By creating this comparison between Big Brother and the totalitarian leaders, Orwell shows what a society could become with a long-term totalitarian leader: a place with no freedom, yet with people who believe they are free, shown by the Party slogan “Freedom is Slavery” (Orwell 4).