History Of Torture

In the ancient times, torture and interrogation methods were used in order for individuals to obey and confess to crimes they have violated. These strategies were utilized to accumulate information as well as to punish the individual as well. As George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty­ Four predicts, a perpetual war is uprising. In the Torture articles, the United States of America built a detention center in Caimanera, Cuba called Guantanamo Bay that is used to detain extraordinarily dangerous people who are suspected to be terrorists. The concentration camp interrogate prisoners in an optimal setting by using several torture and cross-examining techniques, and prosecute prisoners for atrocities. This has been on a daily occurrence. Nineteen Eighty- …show more content…
Its purpose was to try to force the prisoners to admit that they were members or knew a terrorist group, or to give false testimony about other prisoners. This was done so that those confined in the concentration camp can feel a sense of helplessness and feel essentially trapped in one room forever. According to reports from the Central Intelligence Agencies, there were photos captured of the elders humiliating their prisoners, and not providing them with basic human necessities. In the Ministry of Love, this is entirely a different case. The ministry is referred to as "the place where there is no darkness", individuals who are put into Miniluv are introduced to the practice of fear, suffering, torture and infliction of misery. Detainees would either stay there forever, are executed or are harmed in many different ways. Interrogation is used in the Ministry of Love when Winston is stabbed with a syringe in order for him to dream of either him drowning or …show more content…
Guantanamo Bay is strictly kept in secret and is controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency enforced by the American government. This is done so that only those with high power and experience can access and work in these concentration camps. According to the Justice Campaign , no individual can be seen in and out of the prison. Every individual in the field must be identified at all times even if they are employees of a business. Guantanamo Bay is a highly restricted area because it is right below America’s famous area. Therefore the area is extra careful so that no trespassers will come through to witness the horrible interrogation and torture acts being done inside the concentration camp.Guantanamo Bay is situated in Cuba, there are no constitution as to human rights within this region. The United States of America controls the confinement center, because only the government decides which rules and regulations are able to be “wavered” so that no human rights claim can be made. However, in the Ministry of Love, controlled by Oceania’s Airstrip One, individuals must always love their supreme leader “Big Brother”, or else they would be tormented just like how Winston was. Winston did not agree with everyone else in the community and because of this, he began to believe in his own opinion, he was able to think differently, act differently and even break the oppressive laws in