Abstract:
To what extent is government censorship applied in both The Giver by Lois Lowry and in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell?
Throughout this extended essay, the theme of government censorship has been analyzed in both the novels The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four. A thorough study of the theme was done, which enabled me to compare how similar and different the uses of it are, and as well the relevance of it in both novels.
This essay begins by explaining the important events that occurred in both novels, an exploration of the elements of a story were done. Important characters, setting, plot, conflict, and the resolution of both novels were disclosed.
Then an investigation of the themes found in both The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four …show more content…
All these things and issues are nonexistent; there is only little pain and little crime. Nearly every individual is identical to the other, and everything in their life is controlled by the government or as they are referred to in the novel, "the Elder". The Elders are a committee who set up rules that the society must follow since the rules are obligatory and they follow it obediently. Those who break the rules of the society are "released", the old and the sick are also "released", the community believes that it means sent to live elsewhere outside of the community. And if that's the case then it means that they released outside of the walls of the community alone which would lead to their death either from starvation or from the coldness or hotness of the weather outside. Choice is disposed of and everything in the society is controlled so that life is as comfortable and as pleasant as it can possibly be. The Elders creates order between families by matching spouses together and appointing to them children born of women whose only job is to give birth. The elders name all of the children and choose for every person a career which they think is most suitable for them. Being different from the rest is a shame; everyone is similar in their skin color and clothes and many other traits to serve the common good of the society, and to reduce its …show more content…
These memories include knowledge of concepts such as happiness, music, violence, pain, war, etc. Jonas's job is to hold these memories for the community because not anyone can handle experiencing such memories like sadness and painfulness.
The memories Jonas gained were from before their society was even founded, back when color, sex, love, music, emotions, hills, snow, and sunshine weren’t all absent from Jonas's world in particular. The first memory he received is that of a sled sledding down a hill in the snow. While Jonas gets to experience a lot of fun things like holidays and Christmas, he also had to deal with bad memories, such as sunburn, loss, death, and war.
Jonas receives past memories, good and bad. When the society went to identicalness, painless, warless, and mostly a dispassionate state of calm and conformity, it gave up all memories of pain, war, passion, but the memories could not completely disappear. Someone has to store them so that society can avoid committing past mistakes, although no one except for the receiver is able to endure the pain of keeping
To what extent is government censorship applied in both The Giver by Lois Lowry and in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell?
Throughout this extended essay, the theme of government censorship has been analyzed in both the novels The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four. A thorough study of the theme was done, which enabled me to compare how similar and different the uses of it are, and as well the relevance of it in both novels.
This essay begins by explaining the important events that occurred in both novels, an exploration of the elements of a story were done. Important characters, setting, plot, conflict, and the resolution of both novels were disclosed.
Then an investigation of the themes found in both The Giver and Nineteen Eighty-Four …show more content…
All these things and issues are nonexistent; there is only little pain and little crime. Nearly every individual is identical to the other, and everything in their life is controlled by the government or as they are referred to in the novel, "the Elder". The Elders are a committee who set up rules that the society must follow since the rules are obligatory and they follow it obediently. Those who break the rules of the society are "released", the old and the sick are also "released", the community believes that it means sent to live elsewhere outside of the community. And if that's the case then it means that they released outside of the walls of the community alone which would lead to their death either from starvation or from the coldness or hotness of the weather outside. Choice is disposed of and everything in the society is controlled so that life is as comfortable and as pleasant as it can possibly be. The Elders creates order between families by matching spouses together and appointing to them children born of women whose only job is to give birth. The elders name all of the children and choose for every person a career which they think is most suitable for them. Being different from the rest is a shame; everyone is similar in their skin color and clothes and many other traits to serve the common good of the society, and to reduce its …show more content…
These memories include knowledge of concepts such as happiness, music, violence, pain, war, etc. Jonas's job is to hold these memories for the community because not anyone can handle experiencing such memories like sadness and painfulness.
The memories Jonas gained were from before their society was even founded, back when color, sex, love, music, emotions, hills, snow, and sunshine weren’t all absent from Jonas's world in particular. The first memory he received is that of a sled sledding down a hill in the snow. While Jonas gets to experience a lot of fun things like holidays and Christmas, he also had to deal with bad memories, such as sunburn, loss, death, and war.
Jonas receives past memories, good and bad. When the society went to identicalness, painless, warless, and mostly a dispassionate state of calm and conformity, it gave up all memories of pain, war, passion, but the memories could not completely disappear. Someone has to store them so that society can avoid committing past mistakes, although no one except for the receiver is able to endure the pain of keeping