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    Conformity Vs Society

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    kind of authority .Although some people think that they have to fit in‚ I believe that they should be unique and different. Many writers have explored the theme of being unique and different in their literary work. For example‚ in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell ‚ Winston Smith sets out to challenge the limits of the Party’s power.It is a political novel that portrays a state in which government monitors and controls every aspect of human life to the extent that even having

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    dystopian narratives‚ the governments utilize excessive control as a method of enforcement. Overpowering is used by the government on its own citizens in order to conceal the facts and not acknowledge the true. The totalitarian authorities in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell and the film Brazil (1985) directed by Terry Gilliam‚ consistently enforce overpowering in order to accept dictatorial policies and to manipulate the citizens. The other sources‚ “Zim Govt Found Responsible for

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    1984 and Brazil

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    include undesirable elements of society exaggerated to form a warning for the future generations. Terry Gilliam’s film Brazil shows a dictatorial society where freedom has been surrendered for a bogus promise of protection from terrorist activities. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel and is a story about the degradation of society under a totalitarian regime that uses perpetual warfare to fulfil its penchant for power. The theme of war and terrorism is also questioned by Karen Masterson in her

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    1984 Analysis

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    George Orwell’s 1984 cautions against the rise of the totalitarian regime and what it could comprise of if it were to become a real-world problem. Oceania is a power ridden distopian society with no hope of returning to a democratic world similar to the one that we live in now. Winston Smith’s life comprises of very little except the scarcity of light-heartedness‚ and his desolate surroundings. (QUOTE) Winston is only a sample of the people of Oceania‚ and the drippings of a long destroyed society

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    is its non-existence combined with a topos – a location in time and space’. So‚ instead of frustrating ourselves by imagining a utopia which never comes‚ our humanities have been writing dystopian fictions since the ancient times. One of them is Nineteen-eighty-four written by George Orwell. This work has been the main inspiration for most of contemporary dystopian fictions or novels. Also‚ the second one‚ ‘the Snow Piercer’ directed by Bong Jun Ho is the seminal dystopian film

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    The assigned book for this course is The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day‚ by John C. Maxwell. In this book‚ Maxwell gives a leadership principle and then supplies a relevant Bible supported example to give life to the principle being introduced. The assignment for this week was to read chapters 8‚ 9‚ 10‚ and 11. This paper will summarize what the author discussed in these chapters. In chapter 8‚ “The Law of Intuition‚” the eighth leadership principle can be found. Here‚ Maxwell dialogs

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    The world of Nineteen eighty-four‚ one is brought to a total dystopian world‚ where the planet is ruled by an absolute rule government. In Gorge Orwell¡¯s dark vision of this frightening future‚ where the power-mad few rules over the land by manipulating the mind of the masses though the use of language‚ hatred‚ and physical pain. This work is a cautionary tale against totalitarianism and potential totalitarianism. Perhaps the most powerful fiction novel in the twentieth century‚ demonstrated to

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    matters‚ but the attitudes‚ values‚ and beliefs of its population‚ erasing the distinction between state and society. The theme of technology has been a significant subject throughout the whole history of totalitarianism. In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ the totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends instead of exploiting its knowledge to improve civilization. In the story‚ the government created its own contradictory language called ‘Newspeak’ which is used in censoring

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    personal conscience and the human spirit will be tested‚ and often appearance of public belonging is a mask covering the private desire to reject belonging. These ideas are powerfully evident in both novels‚ ‘Romulus‚ My Father’ by Raimond Gaita and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1984) by George Orwell. A sense of belonging can be created through a range of significant events. However‚ at times‚ these events demonstrate the changing nature of belonging and the way in which challenging can both forge and

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    Literature Resource Center - Print Title: Author(s): Publication Details: Source: Document Type: Animal Farm Exposes Orwell’s Sexism Daphne Patai Readings on Animal Farm. San Diego‚ Calif.: Greenhaven Press‚ 1998. Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 68. Detroit: Gale‚ 2004. p116126. From Literature Resource Center. Critical essay Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale‚ COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning [(essay date 1998) In the following essay‚ originally published in 1984

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