George Orwell was a novelist who opposed communism through his writing‚ as can be shown by his most famous works‚ Animal Farm and 1984. The former reflects the developments in the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution‚ whereas the latter depicts life under totalitarian rule. Having witnessed firsthand the horrific lengths to which totalitarian governments in Spain and Russia would go in order to sustain and increase their power‚ Orwell wrote 1984 to alert Western nations about the approaching
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In the novel‚ 1984‚ the protagonist‚ Winston Smith‚ live in a world full of thought policies‚ telescreens and proletarian. In Oceania‚ proletarian are under watch within 24 hours a day‚ 365 days a year‚ which mean they are being watched without any privacy. Also‚ they are not allowed to have any other thought other than what the party told them to have. For the people who do have the thought will being vaporized; never exist in the world‚ nobody will remember who they are anymore. The party slogan
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citizens are free to do what they want but that is a lie. This is because the people actually live in constant fear of telling the facts due to the fatal consequences that would follow. O’Brien says‚ “Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two makes four‚ if that is granted all else follows”(69; Bk1‚ ch.7). The citizens in 1984 are in constant fear of saying the wrong thing and getting shot which is not the definition of a free though society. A free thought is where people can think what they want
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the strongest gets picked over the weakest. In the case of the puppies if you are weak you get killed. On the ranch if you are weak you get fired. This is a quote from the book that is an example of survival of the fittest‚ “ Nine of ‘em. I drowned four of ‘em right off. She couldn’t feed that many.” “Got five left‚ huh?” “Yeah‚ five. I kept the biggest. P.35. In the quote you can see that the weakest got killed of which supports
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Tetris‚ the russian game about tetrahedron shapes raining from the sky in an unending puzzle apocalypse‚ rapidly took the world by storm‚ resulting in its distribution by countless companies. How did such a game reel in a massive audience where even non-gamers are willing to play? In this paper I will be analyzing the visual and audio elements of the gameplay‚ as well as the audience’s traits in playing the game. In Tetris‚ the player must orient a number of falling shapes at they collect
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allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest‚ scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible‚ once the deed was done‚ to prove that any falsification had taken place. (part one chapter four) He who controls the past‚ controls the future" is a Party slogan to live by and it gives Winston his job‚ but Winston cannot see it like that. Barely old enough to recall a time when things were different‚ he sets out to expose the Party for the
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belief that Huxley’s main message in the novel‚ “only the alienated individual… can achieve true happiness” (McQuail 31)‚ is flawed. While this claim has its merits‚ the four main characters of the novel‚ all iconoclasts in their society‚ meet some kind of unhappy end‚ invalidating Huxley’s message. However‚ all other people but the four main characters-- Bernard‚ Helmholtz‚ Mustapha‚ and John-- are incapable of any emotions besides those conditioned to them.
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Importance of Language; Newspeak. It is the intention of the government to make it impossible to convey any nonconformist thoughts. Hence Newspeak was designed for this very intention. To narrow down what people can actually say and think‚ the rules of language are being skewed from what we actually say right now. Negative terms have been eliminated from the language. In Newspeak‚ "bad" and "awful" are altered to mean "ungood" or "doubleplus ungood." This language leaves no room for nuance or shades
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Four legs good‚ two legs better! ” (92). The sheep are simply repeating what Squealer has told them to say. Another way to say that ignorance is bliss is “the lack of knowledge results in happiness”. This occurs frequently in Animal Farm. If the animals
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This web site has a full article that shows four ways your privacy is being invaded. Two of many other ways that i think our privacy is being invaded is by listening to our phone calls with others and the other one is by going to our social media and watching our conversations. One of the many ways
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