After reading 1984, I felt an even stronger hatred towards communism. As I was reading, I thought about North Korea and how everybody who lives there worships Kim Jong-il like he is some God. Although Kim Jong-il is the cause of North Korea's poverty and extreme totalitarianism, all his people still think he is the greatest person ever even if he is destroying their lives. In 1984, Big Brother is the ruler and all the citizens of Oceania look up to him. Every where you look, there are huge posters
In “1984” George Orwell’s novel it symbolizes that our government could go into a dictatorship if they get too much power. For example North Korea uses censorship, corruption and brainwash to control their citizens. North Korea’s government prevents them from speaking their own mind, from having their freedom. This could be George Orwell mind of an ideal government in his book. A nightmare of a government that could become reality. Imagination is the weapon in the war of reality. An imagination
She argues that totalitarianism is ruthless and consistent thus it requires sacrifices of their own (8). That is why the Soviet Union won the war but Germany lost it, because they did not pump enough soldiers onto the battlefield. Although this argument is fallible because totalitarianism is not about winning a war, but controlling society. With her argument the sub-question of the title can be revisited;
informing, “Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask, there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.” The symbolism of the Fawkian mask becomes a rebellious icon and is the stimulus behind the civil upheaval denouncing brutal totalitarianism, being adopted into reality as a symbol of modern protest. Orwell however, deploys masks as a figurative tool, in the forms of controlled expression and party uniform. Winston remarks, “You had to live… In the assumption that every sound you made
Joseph Flores Mr. Cagley ERWC 7 April 2015 1984 In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, Winston Smith lives in a society of tyranny where love and friendship is overruled by power and victory. George Orwell presents a society based off ignorance, control from authority, and most of all a society based off hatred. The history of human civilization is similar to George Orwell’s dystopia in 1984, dating back to ancient civilizations to modern day social unrests. I believe that a civilization based on
Explore the ways the writers present tyrannical rulers in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and George Orwell’s 1984 The story of Macbeth shows the gradual breakdown of society due to regicide in 11th century Scotland. It was designed as a piece of political propaganda, written just after the failed Gunpowder Plot led by Guy Fawkes. It shows the Tudor Chain of Being destroyed leading to catastrophic effects on nature and the people of that area. The King was God’s appointed and if anyone was to defy