Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

ignorance plays out in Oceania is the Proles, who live a simple life, happy with their government and ignorant of the terrible state of their society. Winston, at first, thinks that the Proles could be the secret to overthrowing to overthrowing Big Brother, as they constitute 85% of the population. However, over time, he…

1984, George Orwell, an novelist and journalist, who’s dystopian novel portrays a government that controls all aspects of people’s lives. They use a variety methods to keep their citizens in control and Winston Smith is one of the people who challenges them. Orwell’s use of repetition, imagery and symbolism to create suspense in order to capture his audience’s attention throughout the novel. First, Orwell uses repetition in order to emphasize that the telescreen still holds power over everyone.…

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984 1984, by George Orwell is a book written in 1949, set 35 years into the future, that attempted to show what life would have looked like in a world in evil and chaos. The government stayed in power by using violence and force, by rewriting history everyday, distorting the truth and brainwashing the people to venality. Many people argue that the genre of 1984 is science fiction, but…

I like to call them, BERNIE SANDERS. Sanders works his butt off to help get America back on track, just like the Proles work hard every day for a living. But with Inner Party members (Trump) in charge, the world would be doomed, making it a dystopian era. Oppression, long unjust cruel punishment is exposed all over this novel. The author George Orwell practices symbolism to portray the loss of privacy, meaning Big Brother, the Teleprompters, Thought Police. Having someone listen in to you every…

committing “thought crimes,” it is clear that institutionalized fear works to empower Big Brother by using party members own subconsciouses’ against themselves; a tactic which shows how the psychological impact of a surveillance state is just as, or even more effective than any physical enforcement effort to suppress the free-will of party members. With this in mind, Winston’s resistance experiment against Big Brother is one that not only seeks to test the limits of party supervision of his body…

Through his writing of 1984, George Orwell crafted one of the most impactful commentaries on totalitarianism in literature. Containing ominous passages of a post-war dystopia, much of his work acts more effectively as a warning than a fictional story. Purposefully avoiding any particular political party to comment on, Orwell’s main focus is that The Party can maintain power through its methods of restricting free thought. Winston Smith, the protagonist, faces an internalized struggle with…

Winston’s ending is shocking and interesting. The Party focuses on fixing its people rather than disposing of them. Winston craved to be something other than another droid the brainwashed population. His craving was his undoing. While off finagling with Julia, Winston’s confidence in the Brotherhood and rebellion grew. His unabridged trust for strangers led to Winston’s capture and symbolic death. The Ministry of Peace and O’Brien destroyed any piece of Winston that craved to be different or…

The dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell depicts a totalitarian society under which language has enormous power and influence. Language is used for propaganda such as the Party slogan, ‘War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength’ as well as for the manipulation and control of thought. The Party creates its own language, newspeak, which is ‘the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year’. Destroying language and reducing the number…

Dark grey dysfunctional world. A world that takes you to a negative environment, a world that is only in the movies, a world that us women really know, no different. Trapped in a box where the key has been thrown away, voices whisper demanding our every move. A taunting vicious creature creeping through our ears, ready to attack whenever it is hungry. The commanding voice so powerful it echoes for hours at a time, leaving no peace as it rapidly strikes again and again and again. We are in a…

In his apartment building there are posters “ with the enormous face gazed on the wall”(Orwell,2) and there is a specific picture which is “contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move” (Orwell,1). There is a phrase beneath it saying “Big Brother Is Watching You”. Today, satellites can track every move you make, while the internet can be a tool where people can hack your personal information and see what you are doing. Newspeak is a language that removes negative words, basically…