Throughout time access to information has been controlled by many different organisations. This controlling of information can sometimes be used for ulterior motives, which members of society may not be aware of. This fear of manipulation is displayed throughout many forms of text, from different time periods. By analysing George Orwell’s 1984, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and Fifteen Minutes of Shame I have been able to compare the different reactions of people throughout contrasting time periods and Governmental systems. All of these texts contain the same moral questions of not taking everything at face value, and all serve as a warning about what can and has happened to humanity when we blindly follow others that are manipulating information.
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Orwell had seen the dangers of absolute political control and feared the England was heading the same way, he created the dystopian society of 1984 to show that totalitarianism is one of the worst possible ways for society to degrade. To drive home this fear Orwell hypothesised that this could be reality in as little as 35 years in the future. Although Orwell’s ideas in 1984 did not become a reality it still created alarm about how invasive authoritarian governments can
Orwell had seen the dangers of absolute political control and feared the England was heading the same way, he created the dystopian society of 1984 to show that totalitarianism is one of the worst possible ways for society to degrade. To drive home this fear Orwell hypothesised that this could be reality in as little as 35 years in the future. Although Orwell’s ideas in 1984 did not become a reality it still created alarm about how invasive authoritarian governments can