He notes that because of the famine people had to begin farming for themselves and their families at night, which created some level of private property where the regime wants people to have none. Furthermore, North Korea had to reluctantly allow it because of the millions who were dying of starvation as well as the amount of people who were disobeying the regime trying to feed themselves. Kang writes that “though the Party was fervently opposed to private land use, the peasant movement grew so strong that the Party had no choice but to give ground. It never changed its laws, but it grudgingly accepts the practice, and is content merely to remind the peasants that in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea no land belongs to a single owner.” He notices that one of the biggest differences in South Korea is money and acquiring as much of it as possible is the normal, but in comparison the people in the North are concerned with acquiring enough just to…
North Korea and China’s society would be categorized as a dystopian society due to its current conditions. In North Korea, the government has mass surveillance, a worshiped figurehead and conformity. Alongside, China’s society is being manipulated by the media, people live under conformity, and are dehumanized. These situations are overpowering a healthy way of living. The way people see things and do things are now manipulated because of the way North Korea and China’s government lead.…
They are oppressing their citizens by not allowing them freedom of choice and expression. This is similar to Rand’s Anthem as the government in Anthem controls what the citizens know. For example the government does not allow citizens to speak about the time before their collectivist society as it is referred to as the unspeakable times. In North Korea you are required to follow a socialist way of life as presented to you by the government. Breaking that lifestyle set out by the government would result in “re-education” with severe penalties just like in Anthem where as every citizens has to follow the City Council’s rules and way of…
There is not any one person who is special, other than the controlling regulators. Everyone is equal. Everyone who inhabits the community is there to benefit the other. In North Korea, there is no access to cellphones, internet, and similarly to Anthem, even freedom. In North Korea they’re basically dependant on their leader Kim Jong-un.…
Modern day North Korea, nicknamed the hermit kingdom, is known to be heavily isolated from the influences of the world. Its people are secluded and forced to praise their ruler, Kim Jong-un, or else they shall pay a dreadful price. Moreover, personally, I do not believe that Jong un’s people truly see and love him as this god-like figure. To me, I see them as terrified and depressed people who are involuntarily forced by the Korean government to live in a place with no freedom. This is even shown by the number of refugees who risk not only their own lives but their families in order to desperately escapes the clutches of their horrifying environment.…
The government control North Korea has over it’s people can be compared to extremities that are portrayed in the dystopian novel, Anthem. In Anthem, Rand’s purpose is to give an insight to what the world could be like if we let the government control society completely; and the government structure in Anthem provides readers with horrendous comparisons to the society of North Korea. The North Korean society has been…
As decades pass, society continues to see a growing increase in world hunger and a steady decrease in resources. Though one thing remains the same throughout history, and that is societies around the world ignoring this epidemic. As long as this problem does not personally affect a person, that person will remain indifferent to…
The famous story “Anthem” written by Ayn Rand and the true stories of North Korea really have great similarities but also have big differences. Both governments have a strange way of controlling their people,disciplining and also rewarding them for their good and the bad. Plus their branches of government are a little different from the U.S and other countries. These countries, both show a little of selfishness a no care for the people whatsoever besides profiting off of them in different ways. Going out of what they want you to do will serve you major consequences.…
North Korea is supposedly communistic but studying the actions that have taken place, it is more totalitarian like that of Anthem. When learning about their society they shut off all of the country's lights except the capital’s every night at a specific time. North Korea has around 24 million people in poverty and those numbers are still growing, according to U.S. News.com. They refuse help from any other countries and rarely allow foreigners into their country. The society is under extreme totalitarianism that the people in poverty are basically forced into that lifestyle.…
A big difference that I saw between North Korea and Rand’s dystopian world, the structures of each government. In the book Anthem the dystopian world Ayn Rand describes has different ranks and jobs and each job more superior than the other even though no one is ever allowed to say that they are superior to the other. “The Council is above all things for it is the will of our brothers, which is holy... It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them.” But in a documentary on North Korea called, Under The Sun, the narrator explains “...Representatives of the dependent Social Democratic and jaundiced parties that have no real power.”…
The political system in North Korea depends on a unique ideology called Juche Ideology. In Blaine Harden’s “Escape from Camp 14,” he explains that “Juche means, in nutshell, being the master of revolution and reconstruction in one’s own country. This means holding fast to an independent position, rejecting dependence on others, using one’s own brains, believing in one’s own strength, displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance” (77). Due to this reason, the government’s political consideration delayed their request from asking international aids from the other countries, such as China, United States of America, Japan, and Russia. This had significantly shows that although there are millions of North Korean died of starvation, but the government of North Korea still hesitated to open its borders to receive the aid.…
Through Hazel Smith’s book North Korea, Markets and Military Rule, she logically sees North Korea by using factual numbers. Unlike Hazel Smith, by contrast, Suzy Kim directly refers to changes of everyday life in North Korea, or their autobiographies in order to see North Korea. This is one of the big differences between two books. In Chapter 1, Hazel Smith points out that most people are controlled by conventional wisdom even though it has little evidence to prove if it is true. She says that people in North Korea are both villains victims.…
Abuse of Power is an idea heavily communicated by George Orwell in his novel 1984. Orwell’s 1984 warns us about the dangers of a totalitarian rule. In 1984 we experience this nightmarish totalitarian state run by a fictional group named “The Party” through the eyes of Winston, a member of the lower tiers of this party. Beyond the text there are many links between 1984 and modern day society that we can identify such as North Korea’s media manipulation, Orewa College monitoring our data and From the very start of the novel we can identify that Oceania is a very military structured society “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks where striking 13.” In western culture the military uses the 24 hour clock so we can understand the type of dictatorship…
Surely an epic poem that has lasted for over 1,000 years has to mean something. A poem over 3,000 lines long, which was told orally until someone wrote it down, has to mean that it’s something special. Beowulf is a tale of a mighty hero protecting a neighboring nation from monsters spawned from hell. It’s a good story. When all else has failed, who comes to save the day?…
English Summer Assignment While 1984 and Lord of the Flies are set in completely different world, the characters within the world act remarkable similar. For example, in 1984, the party (governing body) constantly tells people these three lines; “war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength (Orwell, 26).” Similarly in Lord of the Flies, Jack and his band of savages constantly speak of the beast. In both instances, the ruling body creates false realities, that their constituents eventually start to believe even though they know that it is a false reality.…