Use of terror has been a common method throughout the totalitarianism period. Terror, an essential evil in totalitarianism, is the necessary condition of dictatorship, the monopoly power of communist and their will to subject the whole society. Totalitarianism has developed completely new political institutions and traditions, destroyed all social, legal and political structures of a country. The goal of this essays is to show the psychological effects of the terror. I want to speak about the methods
The free dictionary defines resistance as “an act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion. Often resistance an underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation. Psychology a process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences.” Resistance literature was about liberalism, freedom of thought and democracy. Writers such as Jack London
There are some books that make the reader question life as we know it. One of these books is 1984 by George Orwell. He had many motives to write this book in a dystopian genre, and found influence in his everyday life associated with politics and the fear of a totalitarian takeover. 1984 became a very successful novel, and to this day, still captivates the minds of its readers. Orwell’s reasons for creating 1984 was to warn people of the dangers of complete authority, and he hoped to prevent the catastrophic
Over the years Nigeria has witnessed several empty, jabberwocky inordinate promises from our political gladiators who has used the magic of language to cajole many. However, language serves as a strong tool that our political leaders used for easy communication of thought that enhance winning of political mandate. This paper shows how language is used in politics as a tool to communicate thought and how language is used as a train to which political leaders convey meaning to the heart of Nigerians