Connection Two and Text Three
Lies and deceit are used by my texts to show the effect of control on the freedoms of the individual. In Animal Farm, the animals dream of more freedom but are deceived by the pigs and their freedom becomes less than that of just after the rebellion. Before this rebellion takes place, a pig named ‘old Major’ calls all the animals together to give a speech. In his speech he says that “The life of an animal is misery and slavery...”. This idea becomes one of the key ideas of animalism, that animals should be free and have man forcing them to labour long hard hours. Old Major soon dies and the animals begin plotting the rebellion against the farmer, Mr Jones. The rebellion is successful and a pig named ‘Napoleon’ …show more content…
Winston Smith is the main character in the novel 1984 and lives in a country called ‘Oceania’, ruled by the ‘Party’. The start of the novel reveals the intense security of the Party in the reader learns that “Big Brother is watching you”, where all people and their actions are watched by ‘telescreens’. ‘Thoughtcrimes’ are said to be the worst crime that a person can commit, to which the ‘Thought police’ may discover and punish those in offence. Lies and deceit are used by the Party to get the country to become like this so that people accept the absurdity of ‘thoughtcrimes’. Winston works in the ministry of truth, where he alters history by rewriting and distorting the truth so that people of Oceania can be controlled and their individual freedoms can be limited and removed. Evidence for this can be found where the writer says “if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” Another example of the Party’s lies and deceit is how they trick people into committing crimes of rebellion against the Party. At first, Winston thinks that O’Brien is apart of the ‘Brotherhood’, a rebellious group of people who seek to overthrow the Party. His opinion of O’Brien is only reinforced after he invites him to join the Brotherhood. But we learn that O’Brien has deceived Winston after his arrest when George Orwell writes “It was O’Brien who was directing everything. It was he who set the guards on to Winston and who prevented them from killing him.” O’Brien prevented the Thought police from killing him as he had been watching and waiting many years for this moment and so he tourchered Winston into submission and to love Big Brother. The evidence presented in this novel
Lies and deceit are used by my texts to show the effect of control on the freedoms of the individual. In Animal Farm, the animals dream of more freedom but are deceived by the pigs and their freedom becomes less than that of just after the rebellion. Before this rebellion takes place, a pig named ‘old Major’ calls all the animals together to give a speech. In his speech he says that “The life of an animal is misery and slavery...”. This idea becomes one of the key ideas of animalism, that animals should be free and have man forcing them to labour long hard hours. Old Major soon dies and the animals begin plotting the rebellion against the farmer, Mr Jones. The rebellion is successful and a pig named ‘Napoleon’ …show more content…
Winston Smith is the main character in the novel 1984 and lives in a country called ‘Oceania’, ruled by the ‘Party’. The start of the novel reveals the intense security of the Party in the reader learns that “Big Brother is watching you”, where all people and their actions are watched by ‘telescreens’. ‘Thoughtcrimes’ are said to be the worst crime that a person can commit, to which the ‘Thought police’ may discover and punish those in offence. Lies and deceit are used by the Party to get the country to become like this so that people accept the absurdity of ‘thoughtcrimes’. Winston works in the ministry of truth, where he alters history by rewriting and distorting the truth so that people of Oceania can be controlled and their individual freedoms can be limited and removed. Evidence for this can be found where the writer says “if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” Another example of the Party’s lies and deceit is how they trick people into committing crimes of rebellion against the Party. At first, Winston thinks that O’Brien is apart of the ‘Brotherhood’, a rebellious group of people who seek to overthrow the Party. His opinion of O’Brien is only reinforced after he invites him to join the Brotherhood. But we learn that O’Brien has deceived Winston after his arrest when George Orwell writes “It was O’Brien who was directing everything. It was he who set the guards on to Winston and who prevented them from killing him.” O’Brien prevented the Thought police from killing him as he had been watching and waiting many years for this moment and so he tourchered Winston into submission and to love Big Brother. The evidence presented in this novel