Big Brother Australia

Transformation to a Dystopia With society’s advancements in technology, the leaders of America give the illusion of a national utopia, but in reality, America often resembles a real-life dystopia. A utopia is defined as “an ideal place or state where any visionary system of political or social perfection” (“utopia”). Whereas a dystopia is defined as “a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” (“dystopia”). Leaders have a huge influence on the…

If you could make everyone in your society be equal, would you? Well in the short story "Harrison Bergeron", the year is 2081 and everyone is equal. Anyone that is considered better, has to wear special handicaps. One day he breaks out of jail and into the newsroom. He intimidates everyone and eventually gets shot. In "Harrison Bergeron", the character, Harrison Bergeron is a clear danger to society. The first reason why Harrison is a threat is because he broke out of jail. In "Harrison…

In the book 1984 by George Orwell various methods of propaganda are used to control the Party members and Proles of Oceania. The main type of propaganda used in 1984 is a glittering generality, “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (Orwell) glittering generalities have positive implications and are valued in society. Another type of propaganda used in the book is bandwagon hate. All Party members and Proles are taught to hate Emmanuel Goldstein, Eurasia, and Eastasia, each…

This passage is a description of Winston’s fellow employee, Mr. Parsons, who is condemned for blindly following Big Brother and acting without questioning his orders. His character acts as a foil for Winston, and it is through his moral inferiority that the superiority of the individual revolutionary (in this case, Winston) is highlighted and made obvious. 1984 condemns…

The Need to Ask Why In “Harrison Bergeron” Vonnegut uses the character Hazel to show that if people cannot question people and concepts then they will blindly follow any figure of authority. When Hazel is watching the ballerinas on the television, and her husband George hears a noise in his ear radio from questioning the dancers’ handicaps: “Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been” (Vonnegut 1). Hazel does not have the ability…

Over the past few decades, the media has grown to be the most powerful source among society. As Alan Ginsberg said, the culture is greatly influenced by the media, The world will live in today, filled with social media, controls what we believe is to be normal. This state of what we call “normal” is what the ideal is for our society, and if others are not normal, are punished in one way or another. In the world of 1984, everything was embodied by media. As a society, we are constantly affected…

When The Truman show was released back in 1998, who could have imagined what reality TV would be like in 2017? We’re talking nearly twenty years! Back then, it wasn’t really a big deal – they weren’t many reality TV shows at all! Though today, it seems like every time you switch on the TV there is at least one show that centres on the everyday lives of people. Whether it be The Bachelor/Bachelorette or The Real Housewives – the list just goes on and on, television today is simply flooded with…

The children’s book The King’s 6th Finger by Jolby and Rachel Roellke addresses the issues that can arise in an authoritarian power structure. The story, although not explicitly stated, is an authoritarian text. The ruler is King Mortimer, who commands the kingdom to follow his unorthodox rules. Marxist views can be used to examine the distribution of power and inequalities of social classes in this story. In its barest elements, this story describes how a total ruler is able to oppress the…

1984 by George Orwell, the main character Winston Smith is just a regular citizen of Oceania who lives with basically nothing and is controlled by Big Brother every single day. Winston ends up being brainwashed and a perfect citizen of Oceania. In the book 1984, it shows the life style of being controlled by the government. Kim Jong Un and Big Brother are extremely alike. They are both terrible leaders who do terrible things to their citizens. “After the Korean War, Kim II Sung used his…

Postman strengthens his argument by focusing on shared assumptions. While his audience shares his pessimistic view of the present, his argument rests on the assumption that people can change if they so desire. Because the fair has been given the theme, “Orwell in the year 2000” (448), Postman assumes that his audience might entertain a doubtful view of society’s future. For those who believe in the collapse of civilization that is to come, he presents an image of a nation pulled into…