A modern day dystopia is alive and well. Many people believe that dystopias are a work of fiction, and that no government could ever produce such atrocities that are depicted in books and movies. Unfortunately, these people are sadly mistaken. In books such as 1984, the dystopia depicted is not fiction in today’s society. The title of the book is 1984, by George Orwell. It is a work of dystopian fiction. North Korea and the fictional society portrayed in 1984 share similar dystopian characteristics including controlling facts, propaganda, and controlling of citizens. North Korea is a big culprit of controlling facts and histories of their countries and leaders. A quote to support this is, “North Korea media are going one step farther and
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They are constantly trying to push for big brother and how amazing he is, as well as use it to express hatred and contempt for other nations and people. One of the biggest propaganda campaigns is the 2 minutes of hate. Every week everybody in the society would crowd around telescreens and be blasted with images and videos of their most hated person, Emmanuel Goldstein. He was a traitor to the party, and the citizens are being force fed hatred for him. This is a perfect example of how their propaganda can be used in wide scale to brainwash tons of people in small amounts of time. This quote from the book expresses the amount of propaganda use, “we can 't turn it off, we don 't have that privilege” (Orwell 188). This shows how telescreens that watched the people could observe how they acted and thought, so that propaganda could better be distributed to the citizens. North Korea controls their citizens in ways unimaginable to people of the western culture. One of the most invasive ways is completely prohibiting the internet to all citizens. Imagine not being able to check your social media accounts, or go on netflix and youtube. This way of control of freedom is insane. This quote from an article shows just how bad it really is. “...normal citizens do not get access to the internet” (Lee). This shows that it is in fact true how awful people are treated. This is only one of the many ways that they are controlled in Korea, …show more content…
The way people in the book are fact checked, manipulated by propaganda, and controlled by the government are extremely relevant today. The book 1984 is immensely important in understanding how governments like North Korea work, and how to shut them down and free all the poor people trapped there. Understanding how they work, and why the people in the government do the things they do are the only way to learn how to stop them from doing it. The modern day dystopia needs to be stopped, and we are the only ones that can do
They are constantly trying to push for big brother and how amazing he is, as well as use it to express hatred and contempt for other nations and people. One of the biggest propaganda campaigns is the 2 minutes of hate. Every week everybody in the society would crowd around telescreens and be blasted with images and videos of their most hated person, Emmanuel Goldstein. He was a traitor to the party, and the citizens are being force fed hatred for him. This is a perfect example of how their propaganda can be used in wide scale to brainwash tons of people in small amounts of time. This quote from the book expresses the amount of propaganda use, “we can 't turn it off, we don 't have that privilege” (Orwell 188). This shows how telescreens that watched the people could observe how they acted and thought, so that propaganda could better be distributed to the citizens. North Korea controls their citizens in ways unimaginable to people of the western culture. One of the most invasive ways is completely prohibiting the internet to all citizens. Imagine not being able to check your social media accounts, or go on netflix and youtube. This way of control of freedom is insane. This quote from an article shows just how bad it really is. “...normal citizens do not get access to the internet” (Lee). This shows that it is in fact true how awful people are treated. This is only one of the many ways that they are controlled in Korea, …show more content…
The way people in the book are fact checked, manipulated by propaganda, and controlled by the government are extremely relevant today. The book 1984 is immensely important in understanding how governments like North Korea work, and how to shut them down and free all the poor people trapped there. Understanding how they work, and why the people in the government do the things they do are the only way to learn how to stop them from doing it. The modern day dystopia needs to be stopped, and we are the only ones that can do