The utilization of technology in an autocratic regime is evident throughout both history and within dystopic fiction. Through the comparative study of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), the extent of which technology impacts and aids a dictatorial regime is examined through the intertextual perspectives offered by each text. The incorporation of the political philosophy of collectivism, and by extension the absence of individual liberty and freedom, reflects
government was propaganda. In Animal Farm, George Orwell uses propaganda to show the manipulation of language, changes in policies, and rumors that occurred during the Russian Revolution. “Propaganda is the considered action of spreading information and or rumors” (Darrow). Karl Marx was the original founder of communism. His ideas and beliefs of a “classless society” later contributed to the Russian Revolution (Study Guide: George Orwell Animal Farm 9). Marx’s is represented by old Major in George Orwell’s
“Technology Facilitates Dictatorship” To what extent does your comparative study of the intertextual perspectives of Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflect this statement? The intertextual perspectives of Metropolis, a silent film directed by Fritz Lang and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), a novel written by George Orwell acknowledge the potential of technology to facilitate dictatorship. Dictatorship is regarded to be having complete control and requiring complete subservience towards the leader
trauma. All Europe was suffering an economic crisis and tensions between the West and the East began to appear. The capitalist and the communist world wanted to show each other that their political system was the best but the West condemned the dictatorship led in USSR. The Cold War had begun. In this context of great fear and after his participation in the Spanish civil war, Orwell decided to write 1984 to fight against totalitarianism this time not with guns but with writing. The author criticized
which uses humour, irony or wit to highlight vices and pretensions of individuals, institutions, communities or ideas. In Nate Beeler’s cartoon of North Korea’s first “smart phone” and George Orwell’s Animal Farm, both author and illustrator utilize satire to comment on the nature of tyrannical leadership adopted under communist ideals and how it is detrimental to society. Beeler’s cartoon depicts a plump man namely the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un holding a red old-fashioned phone with a female
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 by which terror was produced in George Orwell’s novel “1984”. It must be said that George Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984” could
would be flushed in the minds of many for years to come. She uttered the words “No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.” Though most often overlook these words of wisdom they come hand in hand with our daily struggles. In George Orwell’s pessimistic, ill-hearted novel Animal Farm this quote can be referred to almost incessantly. For example the grotty, unpleasant swine Napoleon did not come to obtain absolute power on his own. It required the work of the whole, whether they were