The government controls the population with an ear bud radio system that controls their thoughts around the clock with intermittent annoyance of sounds. Every time a thought arises in their brain, this system immediately wipes their thought away with bothersome noise. Also, ‘mental handicaps’ are placed on individuals to ‘weigh’ them down in society. These are heavy pieces of metal and bags of birdshots. Some people even had masks on their faces to make everyone’s beauty ‘equal.’ These handicaps are symbolic of the government controlling society in the guise of benevolence.
Jeffs had a very strategic way about this; he would ensure mass obediance by convincing the children to spy on thier parents. If Jeffs even heard a word about the media from a follower, it would be immediate banishment. Much like what happened in '1984'. The Party wanted nothing more than to keep the people blind and oblivious. They made this so by rewriting history books, feeding the people propaganda, and scaring them into
Readers are often angered by the ending of 1984 because of Winston’s betrayal of his previous life for the acceptance of the party. This is a semi-appropriate ending because of the impossibility of going against the party because of their total control of all people’s lives through the use of fear, which had not been accomplished by any authoritarian regime before the rise of the party. The novel’s ending was semi-appropriate because it stresses a society where all people are equal, but on the contrary makes it so that people must give up all of their freedoms and have all of their aspects of life controlled to conform to the standards of the society. The party controls people’s lives off of three founding philosophies “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. (Orwell 26) War is peace refers to the fact that if the party always frames another enemy to direct all hate towards.
I view change as the building blocks for the future. We need change in order to grow and learn about all there is to know in life. Berry sees change as the loss of the traditional ways of life and the shift to big cities and technology. In That Distant Land, another novel written by Berry, he observes the same behaviors that were displayed by Hannah’s children: And now look at how many are gone…the mold they were made in done throwed away, and the young ones dead in the wars or killed in damned automobiles, or gone off to college and made too smart ever to come back, or gone off to bright lights and ain’t going to work in the sun ever again if they can help it. (2) One could see how Berry’s thoughts of change would have a negative aspect regarding one’s community.
The government in 1984 uses fear against its people for control over the personal life of the people. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”.This shows how much power Big Brother has generated to destroy and destruct the past over the people. Julia thought, ‘Organized opposition existed or could exist.’This shows how people hated the Party, but could not do anything to rebel as Big Brother played with their past.
The following quote is also an example of powerful and destructive ideology in modern history because the strategies that Party chooses to adapt eliminates the sense of reliance that individuals have on the historical records. Also, the past reflect individuals decisions and once they are erased then they are hindered forever to learn from their mistakes. Similarly once the history is suitable to Party's ideology then the trivial information therein to read or know about is banished permanently and replaced with dry revisionist theories for the public . Furthermore , as for present everyone is effectively monitored by the thought police and surveillance screens in order to maximize their
Barrett also helped Taylor realise that no one can be trusted, and that she should not always believe everything she hears from the Senator Rox and the government Taylor never paid any attention to ads, and usually ignored them (as she explained in Page 207). Barrett helped Taylor realise that advertising in the Chattering World, was all about the government trying to persuade everyone to vote for them. For example, when Senator Rox lied about the “Q-Plague” disease, so he can come up with a cure for it (Cue-Kill) to gain money and respect from the public. Barrett does not only change Taylor, he also changes himself. Through the book Barrett becomes a stronger and more knowledgeable person, learning many different things that he would not have learnt at Simplicity.
If the parents of the family taught their kids respect and discipline instead of buying them whatever they wanted to keep them happy the kids could be much more appreciative when the got something such as “the nursery” and would not abuse what their parents give them. This theme is shown once again when one of the children in the family yells “I wish you were dead!” (pg.35) after the father attempts to shut down the nursery. The child overlooks the fact that without his
Winston reads a book written by a past political leader that reveals the party’s secrets, the past leader writes “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish one and for all the possibility of independent thought” (pg. 201). This quotation effectively reveals that a government with this kind of power will control its’ citizens through physical as well as psychological control, because it is so extreme it does an excellent job of revealing this force to the reader. The author point can also be validated because there have been past example of this kind of control being used, for example Nazi Germany during World War Two. The point can be further validated because there are present examples of totalitarian behavior although the extremes are not present currently but as history continually repeats itself and governments slowly gain more power each day; the reader can make a connect to the potential problem that can arise.
Manipulation Children today will manifest tomorrow’s world, and what they learn will determine what kind of world they will create. In the short story, “The Children’s Story” by James Clavell, young students are manipulated to abandoning their religion, faith in their parents and most adults, and lastly their symbol of nationality. The new teacher gains control of the classroom and over the students by manipulating them into disbarring their previous notions. Those, whom lack a sound base of knowledge to support their beliefs, will easily forsake them for new ideas. The usage of diction throughout the story changes as the new teacher gains control over the children.