North Korea and its leader Kim Jung Un are a society of very overwhelming power. The citizens bow down to their leader and give him the power over themselves and their lives. North Korea also has prison camps that they send people who disobeyed them off to. At these camps there are distortions of thoughts that the government forces onto the people. They do this because they think that everyone should only believe in what they tell them. In George Orwell’s 1984 he predicts of what he believes the future will look like and what it will hold for us. Orwell writes from a citizen’s point of view, which lives in the city Oceania, in order to have the reader feel as if they were living in this new society. He explains how the government, big brother,
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Kim Jung Un and Big brother both thrive on having all the control and power over everyone as much as possible. Stupendously hug bronze statues of Kim Sung and his son Kim Jung tower over in every city and town. Having these statues up represent how Kim Sung and Kim Jung are above everyone else. They are a symbol of power and greatly relate to the posters of big brother that are up all throughout Oceania. In attempt to remind you that you are being watched and to remember who you must obey. In ‘1984’ it reads, “Any sound that Winston made, above a level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it.” ‘It’ being the telescreen that is placed in every room. This statement shows how careful you have to be about what you talk about. Anything you say that is wrong according to big brother can and will be used against you and you will be punished for it. If you live in North Korea and say anything against Kim Jung Un or anything you are ordered to believe in you and your family gets sent to prison camps and will be re-taught to love your society and to have ignorance forced on you to keep you and the other prisoners from revolting and to remain at the work stations. Also both Oceania’s Ministry of truth and North Koreas prison camps has a distortion of thoughts that the government forces on the people. One man by the name of Shin describes how that before actually leaving the camp he had little to no idea of how life could be better on the outside of the camp. This information shows how Kim Jung has seemed to have gotten his ways of running North Korea from how big brother runs
Kim Jung Un and Big brother both thrive on having all the control and power over everyone as much as possible. Stupendously hug bronze statues of Kim Sung and his son Kim Jung tower over in every city and town. Having these statues up represent how Kim Sung and Kim Jung are above everyone else. They are a symbol of power and greatly relate to the posters of big brother that are up all throughout Oceania. In attempt to remind you that you are being watched and to remember who you must obey. In ‘1984’ it reads, “Any sound that Winston made, above a level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it.” ‘It’ being the telescreen that is placed in every room. This statement shows how careful you have to be about what you talk about. Anything you say that is wrong according to big brother can and will be used against you and you will be punished for it. If you live in North Korea and say anything against Kim Jung Un or anything you are ordered to believe in you and your family gets sent to prison camps and will be re-taught to love your society and to have ignorance forced on you to keep you and the other prisoners from revolting and to remain at the work stations. Also both Oceania’s Ministry of truth and North Koreas prison camps has a distortion of thoughts that the government forces on the people. One man by the name of Shin describes how that before actually leaving the camp he had little to no idea of how life could be better on the outside of the camp. This information shows how Kim Jung has seemed to have gotten his ways of running North Korea from how big brother runs