The Loss of Individuality in Nineteen Eighty-Four In the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ individuality is an offence punishable by death‚ and the people live under constant supervision. The main character‚ Winston‚ lives in the totalitarian state of Oceania‚ where a figurehead known only as Big Brother is revered by the majority of the populace. In this state‚ those in positions of power are members of the Inner Party‚ while the rest of the people are either members of the Outer Party or part
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Thomas Jefferson once said “Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows‚ liberty decreases.” In his novel 1984‚ George Orwell demonstrates that even though government control seems like a better way of life‚ free will ultimately proves to be the better path. He proves that free will is better in the novel through the constant government surveillance‚ how even the slightest demonstration of free
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GEORGE ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: MODERNIST FABLE If thought corrupts language‚ language can also corrupt thought.[1] The world that Orwell presents in Nineteen Eighty-four has often been called a nightmare vision of the future. Writing sixteen years into that future‚ we can see that not all of Orwell’s predictions have been fulfilled in their entirety! Yet‚ “1984 expresses man’s fears of isolation and disintegration‚ cruelty and dehumanisation…Orwell’s repetition of obsessive
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Many people may not think that literature has a big impact on society‚ but it does. In the two novels‚ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and 1984 by George Orwell‚ the two societies were able to survive without any literature but that causes people to be narrow minded and didn’t think too much. If literature was taken away from society‚ there wouldn’t be people who think out side the box and find the deeper meanings in the writings they read. According to Dictionary.com‚
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conquer the world. People living in countries that push extreme communistic viewpoints and have a huge collective identity presence have no voice. Oceania has telescreens to display propaganda and uses newspeak to restrict people from any type of freedoms. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible‚ because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed
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Part 1‚ Chapter 1 Questions and Answers 1. When does the novel begin? 2. Where does the novel begin? 3. Cite the caption on the posters in Winston’s building. 4. What is Newspeak? 5. What does a telescreen do? 6. What are the Party’s three slogans? 7. Name the four Ministries of the government. 8. What is the purpose of the Two Minutes Hate? 9. What is thoughtcrime? 10. What is the penalty for thoughtcrime? Part 1‚ Chapter 2 Questions and Answers 1. What form of address has replaced “Mrs
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Bach in Time The musical composition‚ “Fugue in G Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach reflects the conflict riddled throughout the story of 1984 by George Orwell. The fugue presents the musical theme as what Big Brother’s ideologies are. The different aspects of the fugue represent Winston Smith‚ society‚ and Big Brother’s interactions throughout the book. In the story‚ Winston goes through an internal and external struggle of rebellion against Big Brother. The constant movement in the music and the
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reassess their values and beliefs in light of contrarian evidence and arguments‚ and advance in intellectual maturity. This is one key brand of academia: the search for truth‚ and this cannot occur when individuals are convinced they already possess it. With intellectual enterprise narrowing as individuals dismiss and suppress dissent‚ the hallmarks of wisdom with its rudimentary tenet of true plurality: active seeking of and fair consideration of opposing views too falls prey to the conformist state
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Germany under the Nazi Party was a totalitarian regime that crashed due to the inefficiency of having familiarity with a democratic government. A totalitarian government could be too powerful and be too demanding due to being centralized on a dictatorship where everyone has to follow a certain leader. In the novel 1984 the government is under control by Big Brother and they take away the rights of the people of Oceania and manipulate them. In 1984‚ George Orwell uses the theme of psychological manipulation
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Music being a form of entertainment gives the listener‚ who are the proles‚ a sense of awareness for political and educational purposes in present times. When the lyrics “To be undone to be‚ to be unsung‚” appear‚ we expose the proles to current newspeak prefixes. The title of the song is “The Hope Song”‚ but it’s ironic because the word “hope” is not present in the song besides the title. The use of “Card Stacking” is a propaganda technique that is in use for this song‚ which is
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