Government plays an important role in the lives of citizens because it represents all the people living in a country. The government is important because it communicates with other governments to ensure the economy's security and receive goods. The government also keeps society balanced by making laws that everyone must cooperate with in order to keep peace. The government has a great influence on people’s lives. For example, the government can make people happy, can kill people, control peoples’ minds, and provide safety. An example of a corrupt government is in the book 1984 by George Orwell. The book illustrates a totalitarian dystopian society where citizens don’t have freedom, they are constantly brainwashed and watched. Big Brother is
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During the Revolutionary War, the government kept peace by conducting Peace Talks. These began in 1782, when four representatives met and talked about their own interests. The delegates signed the Treaty of Paris which confirmed that the U.S was an independent country (The Americans). In the book 1984 the government tried to keep peace and enforce laws by using heavy surveillance on the society which consisted of The Inner Party, The Outer Party and the Proles. The government used this surveillance to identify those that went against the government “people simply disappeared always during the night. “[A] name was removed from the registers, every record of everything … [people] had ever done was wiped out, [a] one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. [People] were abolished, annihilated and vaporized” (Orwell 24). The Party kept peace and enforced laws by making people disappear that committed crimes like they never existed. Other ways that the government enforced laws was by monitoring people by “snooping into people's windows” (Orwell 4). The government of Oceania constantly monitored the whole society using telescreens and voice recorders to prevent any conspiracy against Big …show more content…
The government in the 1984 maintains a stable financial system by being at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia. This helped them maintain power and have control over economic resources. The only thing the Party cared for was power; for example, O’Brain says that “the Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power” (Orwell 332). In 1984 the Party did many unethical things to keep their power for example, they killed people, manipulated people, lied to people and tortured people. “One combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, [was] no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It [was] a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference” (Orwell 235) .In 1984 the government of Oceania has enough resources to sustain itself; the Inner Party has all of the resources but didn’t distribute it to the society for example, Winston says that there is always a shortage of something, razor blades, bootlaces, etc. The Party was always at war so they can destroy the surplus; the war was not for victory. It was to control the population by making propaganda, having 2
During the Revolutionary War, the government kept peace by conducting Peace Talks. These began in 1782, when four representatives met and talked about their own interests. The delegates signed the Treaty of Paris which confirmed that the U.S was an independent country (The Americans). In the book 1984 the government tried to keep peace and enforce laws by using heavy surveillance on the society which consisted of The Inner Party, The Outer Party and the Proles. The government used this surveillance to identify those that went against the government “people simply disappeared always during the night. “[A] name was removed from the registers, every record of everything … [people] had ever done was wiped out, [a] one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. [People] were abolished, annihilated and vaporized” (Orwell 24). The Party kept peace and enforced laws by making people disappear that committed crimes like they never existed. Other ways that the government enforced laws was by monitoring people by “snooping into people's windows” (Orwell 4). The government of Oceania constantly monitored the whole society using telescreens and voice recorders to prevent any conspiracy against Big …show more content…
The government in the 1984 maintains a stable financial system by being at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia. This helped them maintain power and have control over economic resources. The only thing the Party cared for was power; for example, O’Brain says that “the Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power” (Orwell 332). In 1984 the Party did many unethical things to keep their power for example, they killed people, manipulated people, lied to people and tortured people. “One combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, [was] no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It [was] a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference” (Orwell 235) .In 1984 the government of Oceania has enough resources to sustain itself; the Inner Party has all of the resources but didn’t distribute it to the society for example, Winston says that there is always a shortage of something, razor blades, bootlaces, etc. The Party was always at war so they can destroy the surplus; the war was not for victory. It was to control the population by making propaganda, having 2