...Three Principles of INGSOC 1984, novel written by George Orwell about Oceania, a society ruled by the Dictatorship of the Party. The government used to keep an eye on every single person of Oceania through telescreens. There were telescreens everywhere and because of those telescreens people’s life was watched by the government and people had to be very careful in everything they do. The Government used to control people. The main leader of this government was Big Brother. Newspeak was the official language of Oceania. INGSOC is English Socialism according to Newspeak language. There are three principles of INGSOC: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength. War is peace is a belief that when a country is at war with some other country, the people and the states of the country get united to fight against their common enemy. In this novel, government used this principle to maintain peace in their country by being at war with Eurasia. This united the people of Oceania to fight with Eurasia. There are also some other examples of War is peace in this novel; during the two minute hate, when the face of Goldstein appeared on the screen and hate started, there were pictures of some Eurasian soldier and of the war. At that time the whole crowd got united against the enemy: “At this moment the entire group of people break into a deep slow rhythmical chant of B-B! . . . B-B! . . . B-B!” (Orwell 16) Freedom is slavery means when people...
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...1984 is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell and it represents a perfect totalitarian society. The plot takes place in Airstrip One, a part of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, oppressive government with absolute power, led by the so called Big Brother, a leader that is the patron of the English socialism, i.e. Ingsoc and worshiped by the Party members. The novel is filled with motifs from the Soviet Union and wartime life in Great Britain, as it represents a warning about the dangers of communism as a totalitarian regime. Moreover, Orwell was also particularly concerned by the role of technology that was increasingly developing in enabling governments to monitor and control their citizens. Today, around 66 years after the novel is published, the war has long ended, the Soviet Union fell apart and democracy prevailed over communism, at least in some parts of the world. Still, there are some areas where the plot of this novel is not purely fiction, it’s similar to reality. An example of such country is North Korea. North Korea is a small country in East Asia, led by a dictator called Kim Jong-un who inherited the position of the supreme leader from his father. The republic is led by a single party that functions on the so called juche, an ideology of national self-reliance. The Juche ideology is the cornerstone of party works and government operations. It is viewed by the official North Korean line as an embodiment of Kim Il-sung's wisdom (the grandfather...
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...Literature often reflects the society we live in. Similarly, dystopian literature explores the unpleasant and overlooked components of society. 1984 was written by George Orwell in the year 1949 to reflect on the possibility of a totalitarian government in the near future. Furthermore, the book examined the harsh reality of living under total control of the government. It also demonstrated Winston Smith’s, the protagonist, efforts in challenging the whole system. Therefore, an analysis of Winston’s attempt in defeating his government and its outcome illustrates the manner in how to handle atrocities and evil under authoritarian rule. Winston’s decision to challenge the Party was more important to him than preserving his safety and dignity because of his personality and beliefs, his hatred for the Party, and his hope for a better future. Winston’s distinct personality and beliefs in life was a significant cause for his rebellion. His individuality and thoughtfulness allowed him to see through the deceptions and the evil such as history being altered, lying about food ration, and Syme’s vaporization (Orwell, 2008, pp. 11 & 15-16). More importantly, he couldn't adopt doublethink because he was intelligent and wanted to hang on to the last thread of humanity (Moustaki, Nikki, and Gilbert Borman, 2016). For instance, he desired the freedom to say two plus two equaled four and yearned for love and intimacy deeply (Orwell, 2008, pp. 7, 19, 29-32). Winston’s built up hate and anger for...
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...hesis Statement: The article The Ways We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson, goes hand in hand with Oceania. A country falling to corruption, false patriotism, and absolutely no privacy, Orwell’s 1984 encompasses what can happen when a government gains too much power and deceives their people. Omission: Ericsson’s article explains omissions as a story with major details left out, that changes the story completely. Omissions present themselves throughout Orwell’s 1984, for example, the party tells the story of their country, yet they leave out key details that alter the outcome of the story. Orwell explains, “If all others accepted the lie which the party imposed-if all records told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth” (Orwell 40). In other words, if everybody accepts the lie the party advises, then that lie will go down in history as the truth, and no one will know otherwise. Stereotypes and Cliches: According to Ericsson stereotypes and cliches exaggerate lies, dealing with racism, sexism, and religion. Orwell uses Julia to illustrate the stereotypes of women in 1984. Julia proves that women merely pose as sexual objects by having a history of affairs. Moreover, Julia symbolizes the selfish aspect of women, putting her own safety in front of everybody else's. When Julia and Winston emerge from the Ministry of Love, Julia tells Winston, “You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself” (Orwell 292). Julia makes an ironic statement, because...
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...1984: The Party Vs Soviet Russia George Orwells 1984 was a novel of shocking circumstances. All matters in the book are surprising and eye catching to one built on the American society, such as myself. But what if we weren’t comfortable with a society of freedom? What if, likewise to 1984, we had grown up in the 1900’s Soviet Russia? Compared to 1984, Soviet Russia was very much “The Party” in these instances, ranging from the similarities in propaganda, style of government rule, and the forced lifestyles of its people. The ways that 1984 and Soviet Russia use propaganda are eerily similar. “Artists painted pictures glorifying Stalin and he dominated many pictures. It was not unusual for Stalin to be in a white suit so that he stood out from the crowd. He gained the nickname “Uncle Joe” which was an attempt to develop an image of a kind, homely man who was the ‘father’ of all Russians” (Trueman, 2015) and “Those who wrote poems and novels had to do the same – write about Stalin in a manner which gloried him”(Trueman, 2015), are two direct quotes showing almost complete exactness to 1984. Stalin dominating propaganda and being the “Fatherly Face” is much like Big Brother. Big Brother was the face of the Party, and was used to insure party loyalty. His face dominates all paintings and posters, while poems and newspaper articles were wrote to glorify the party. “On each landing, opposite the lifts shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures...
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...#1 Aristocrats and lawyers are deceiving the people. The document states " In order to deceive them, they incessantly declare that none can discover any defect in the system but bankrupts who wish no government, and officers of the present government who fear to lose a part of their power." The people are checked and brainwashed so that they are in belief that their government is perfect, but really only the people that are manipulating know the truth. Who are the government and bankrupts who want to get rich, so go against government. #9 The author is writing as the aristocratic party as a kind of sarcasm. Stating "lamenting the many inconvieniencies to which the late confederation subjected the well-born, the better kind of people, bringing them down to the level of the rabble." The author writes this way because aristocrats have always been made to bear the weight of government. The people follow. That is their contempt. They are used to being led and listened to; it is by this method that the confederation succeeds. #46 The Anti-Federalists are using the congress as an example. As an example of supremacy. Arguing how the Congress is given this immense power to judge all cases. And bound to no limits. The people are wholly left dependent of members of the congress. The Congress in short has the legislative capacity to be like a fort over everything. There is no telling what the future holds as in Congress member wise. Will they be good or bad? Well the people will just...
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...The witness who watches a crime and does not report it, is just as guilty as the criminal. The citizens of the United States are both victims and witnesses. Today's Americans, are victims of the unacceptable actions of the American government, but they are also witnesses who refuse to do anything about the injustice. George Orwell’s 1984, portrays life under an oppressive government that constantly spys on citizens, presents misleading media, and is constantly fighting a foreign enemy. Today in 2016, the United States government spies on citizens through technology, allows a media oligarchy, and is constantly in the midst of a never ending war. The unacceptable actions of the government in Orwell’s 1984 and today are eerily similar, and the solution to the problems is furthermore the same; the common people. Government spying is an unacceptable problem because it breaks the fourth amendment and allows citizens to be searched without any sort of reason or cause. The people of Oceania in 1984 were constantly under Big Brother’s surveillance, just as citizens of the United States are constantly under the NSA’s surveillance today. In 1984, it was written, “any sound made, above the level of a low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as one remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, one could be seen, as well as heard (Orwell 3). Everywhere in Oceania was monitored, even people’s own homes had telescreens that could see and hear everything...
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... More often than not, authors introduce the philosophy of the main governing body, or the main group that controls life in a specific setting, within the first couple of chapters. This, for the most part, occurs to help set up the storyline for the rest of the novel so that the reader has a framework on which he acts or acts against. In 1984 by George Orwell, however, the philosophy of the Oceania government is introduced approximately two-hundred pages in. Its late introduction, while unorthodox, serves a particular purpose in the plotline of the novel. Oceania is a dystopia in which the freedom of thought, and free will on a whole, is squashed by the Party, the governing body within the nation. Upon reading the first half of the novel, one may infer that Oceania is a mirror image of the Soviet Union’s corrupt communism of the Cold War era. Notwithstanding, the information gathered in the third section of the novel contradicts this belief by exposing the extremely twisted form of socialism on which the Party runs. Socialism, an economic and political structure that advocates for equality between the social classes, is often looked down upon, as the regime is easily corrupted so that the lower class is exploited. This exact form of corruption, to an extreme, is what poisons the Oceanian society. The Party tries to create a social structure based on poverty. While many of the original descriptions of the Oceanian government found within the first two sections of 1984 seem to depict...
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...If ‘1984’ by George Orwell had been written in a different time and place, how and why might it differ? The novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell, written in 1948, is a tragic illustration of what the world would be without the freedom to think independently. The internal context of the novel, which is set in London in 1984, whose protagonist is a rebellious low ranking party member called Winston Smith, is meant to portray a world of government domination defined by fear, hatred and ultimate control. The mode of the novel is written and the tenor is close as the story is told in limited third person. The target audience of the novel is people interested in reading and politics. Orwell wrote ‘1984’ as a warning against totalitarian tendencies and a dystopia rather than a prophetic novel. However if Orwell were alive and writing the novel to set it in modern day Hong Kong many of the same issues would be relevant. However the framework of controlling people has changed as they use more modernized technology and manipulative methods. This essay will examine how the characters and methods of establishing and maintaining control would be similar and different, if ‘1984’ was written for today. The Party establishes control through the use of distraction, psychological manipulation and by channeling unwanted emotions towards a fabricated enemy. The government largely ignores the proles and they are not indoctrinated in the same way as Party members. They are kept in control through rumors...
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...With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility: An Analysis of the Eradication of Emotions by Unsolicited Control Governments today have immense power over individuals. Often times, political parties use this power to deprive qualities that define humans as a species from a population. In the fictional novel, 1984 by George Orwell (1949), the Party goes to extreme lengths to torture and brainwash their citizens to achieve utopian concepts. In Terry Gilliam’s film, Brazil (1985) the authorities operate behind the shadows, using technology to manipulate the masses and to eliminate the emotions of the citizens. In the real world, similar examples are evident; in North Korea, these stories are truer than ever. To be more specific, overseers order slaves to mate in prison camps, as Fred Hiatt displays in his article “North Korea’s dehumanizing treatment of its citizens is hiding in plain sight” (2012). The children will have no form of knowledge on concepts such as love, trust, and kindness. Technology and bureaucracy go hand in hand to shape individuals into isolated beings in a broken system. In a society rid of real connections, the people begin to desiccate, and lack all emotional response. In a civilization known to deprive individuality out of citizens, it is certain that eventually everyone will possess inhumane traits. Oceania, one of the three global super states in 1984, influences its citizens by taking away elements such as thought. Winston Smith believes he “was already...
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... Revealing the truth about the worlds Two different communities with the same problems. This is what it is like in the movie The Giver directed by Phillip Noyce, and Anthem written by Ayn Rand. In both the movie and the book both governments are very controlling and limit people's freedom. In Anthem and The Giver, both governments limit choices and information. In both worlds the government's control what the people can know. In The Giver and Anthem the government controls what people know in their communities. Certain people in these communities know too much and are to curious about what the government is doing to them. In the book Anthem, Ayn Rand states “We were born with a curse. It has always driven us to thoughts which are forbidden. It has always given us wishes which men may not wish.” (18). This quote represents how the government controls what people can know by saying how he has thoughts that are forbidden and also by how the government convinces them they were born with a curse. There are also some examples in the movie The Giver of how the government controls what people can know. In The Giver directed by Phillip Noyce the government has also completely brainwashed the people and controls what they know. Phillip noyce represents this by talking about how the government makes all the people have the same level of knowledge by controlling what the specific things they know. For example when Jonas gets his first memory of snow, he's the only one that knows...
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...Yes, minister is a British satirical sitcom that ran from 1980 and 1984 while its sequel Yes, Prime Minister ran from 1986 to 1988. It is set in the office of a British cabinet minister and it shows Jim Hacker (as a minister for administrative affairs) and his struggles to bring about changes in the government. His attempts are prevented by his Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby. 2. Kaj so povedal notr glede Brexita in EU + The devil you know Even though Yes, minister is 30 years old the political issues mentioned seem timeless. There are two episodes that in my opinion describe what British people think about the EU. I’m going to show you this clip from the episode The writing on the wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE In this clip that went viral around the time Brexit happened, Sir Humphrey Appleby explains to Jim Hacker that the reason the UK joined the EU (or what was at that time European Economic Community) was to destroy it from inside. The clip further explains that Britain was eager to bring more countries to join the EU but only to make them quarrel between themselves/to encourage disagreements between them and by that make the EU become weaker. It shows what could have been the reason the UK actually joined the EU in the first place and how British people actually view the EU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYuoWyk8iU&t=109s The other episode I’d like to mention is ‘The Devil you know’. I’m not going to show you the clip because it’s longer...
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...The novel “1984” describes the results of drastic totalitarianism which tramples the dignity of humans who are under the control of an omnipresent, Big Brother. Many people do not believe that the novel “1984” is significant to our society. Likewise they think that the novel itself posses very little relevance to the modern world. Though many people might think 1984 is solely relevant to the post after World War II politics, but the fact is that today any of us could become Winston or Julia. It is clear that the circumstances of novel “1984” are revealing to our society with the three slogans; War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength, invasion of privacy and physical Control. This essay will go on to discuss these points in greater detail. “War is Peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is Strength” which is the three slogans of the English Socialist Party of Oceania emerges the idea of Doublethink. The idea of “doublethink” reveals itself as an important consequence of the Party’s massive campaign of large-scale social influence that purpose to change the perception or behavior of others through under handed, deceptive or even with the abusive tactics. Novel itself describes doublethink as it the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. (pg. 270) There is much research to show that doublethink is held in our modern society. In our modern day world, doublethink exists under the fame of peacekeeping to...
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...George Orwell’s 1984 paints a world where the human spirit succumbs to tyranny, becoming victim to an abusive governmental regime interested only in pure power. With a shallow analysis, this dystopian universe appears foreign, but in actuality, the risk of corrupt government remains a constant threat. For example, in countries such as North Korea, such a government already thrives, even under the watchful eye of a global community dedicated to retaining democracy. Whenever a ruling body takes unto itself the power to alter public opinion through deception, this raises red flags because it manifests as classical emotional abuse on a national or even international scale. For this reason, it is especially important that high school students read...
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...GloVille The current society is torn down with all of these misrepresented people arising from the ash. The society has broken the trust of its people by throwing false claims and unseen promises towards them. Forming the perfect society will be best for the people. Unlike the current one this society will not throw claims at its people and not back them up. However the voting will be the same as the people will have a say in this democracy. In this society there will be fair punishment and equal laws to be followed, along with a beautiful environment. In this society, the laws will be very equal and protective. Such as the society in Singapore where 94 percent of its people said they felt safe when walking at night as said in http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eglg45gelhe/no-10-singapore-4/. Some of these rules may be strict but they are fair and protect there citizens well just as GloVille will accomplish. They also enforce these rules heavily unlike some countries. GloVille, along with just laws and punishment, will have a beautiful environment and the society will do its best to preserve the environment and all of its lustrous aspects. Iceland is what Gloville's environment policy is based off of. http://www.icelandair.us/information/about-icelandair/environmental-policy/ gives a perfect explanation of the environment policy and all of its ways to preserve it. These policies involve how to keep the environment clean and ways to keep the environment going. Such as planting...
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