Power is infinite. “Absolute power corrupts absolute” in the novel 1984 By George Orwell speaks of how the government rules all. Those with the power become corrupt and power hungry. The country Oceania is controlled by those who know and how to use power, but not in the best way possible. In the appendix of the novel, Orwell states on a page 309 “Newspeak was the official language of Oceania” readers can infer that Newspeak, the language that every citizen spoke in Oceania, vanished. What caused Newspeak to be discontinued? How did Big Brother fall? Orwell writes this in the tense in which Big Brother was in the past, where people now know how twisted their government use to be. O’Brien tells Winston that “Big Brother is infallible and all-powerful.”(171)
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How did Oceania become the way it was? Oceania was a prosperous city and people who were left after War World II were to fix the effect of World War II. The government must have been paranoid and thought that people may have been spies and believed that watching them would stop terrorist actions for example bombings or shootings so that they would not occur. Like in the start of the novel "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" (5) This could have caused their government to become crazed. What if those who were behind the surveillance wanted to control all. Yet this is only how Oceania was …show more content…
For instance, in Thailand the cinemas stopped the showing of Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 since they used the symbol of the bird and the three finger sign up. An articles Thai Protesters Are Detained After Using ‘Hunger Games’ Salute “When kids start getting arrested for it, it takes the thrill out of it, and it becomes much more dangerous, and it makes the feeling much more complex. When people are getting arrested for doing something from your movie, it’s troubling.” They make it something
How did Oceania become the way it was? Oceania was a prosperous city and people who were left after War World II were to fix the effect of World War II. The government must have been paranoid and thought that people may have been spies and believed that watching them would stop terrorist actions for example bombings or shootings so that they would not occur. Like in the start of the novel "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" (5) This could have caused their government to become crazed. What if those who were behind the surveillance wanted to control all. Yet this is only how Oceania was …show more content…
For instance, in Thailand the cinemas stopped the showing of Hunger Games Mockingjay part 1 since they used the symbol of the bird and the three finger sign up. An articles Thai Protesters Are Detained After Using ‘Hunger Games’ Salute “When kids start getting arrested for it, it takes the thrill out of it, and it becomes much more dangerous, and it makes the feeling much more complex. When people are getting arrested for doing something from your movie, it’s troubling.” They make it something