Brainwashed

leaders during The Russian Revolution of 1917. Napoleon, who represents Joseph Stalin, is a totalitarian leader that instills fear into the other animals in order for them to comply. Through the propaganda spread about Napoleon, the animals are brainwashed into thinking Napoleon is a beneficial leader the farm. It is shown that their lives are in danger if they show any disagreement to Napoleon. In the novella the animals show signs of being blind followers of Napoleon's tyrannical society due…

would have to dote constantly on her husband, and says “So I began to think it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state” (85). She finds this societal norm of marriage as incredibly unpleasant, and uses words such as “brainwashed” and “slave” to represent the feeling of helplessness she would have if married, not in control of her own actions. While the novel seems to focus…

in full control of their communities. Utopia is a perfect community in which everyone gets along with the laws that are set before them. Dystopia however is a controlled community where everyone must follow and maintain the strict rule and are brainwashed to believe that they are free. In Orwell’s novel 1984 the party is in charge of the community and the members as they watch them at all times by telescreens that transmit and send messages. In Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron”, this…

conditions. They can convince themselves that “Big Brother [was] watching you” for safety and protection, when he was actually just keeping you in check (Orwell 3). Some can get away with mutinous activities for a while, but then they get caught and brainwashed, which is exactly what happened to Winston and Julia. Orwell says that there is “no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime.…

He has instilled hate into them, by igniting their flame that is racism. Speech after speech, he ranted about how immigrants are bad people and how they are stealing their jobs, this only got them even angrier. He has them brainwashed into thinking that he will fight against these things, to put it this way Trump and racist white people have a commonplace, hate. Trump’s supporters are mesmerized at how he is some sort of a lord and savior that will help the people. But how, how…

In 1945, George Orwell wrote a dystopian and political satire called Animal Farm, a book which would reflect all the events leading to the creation of the Soviet Union. In the book, each animal/character is depicted as part of the soviet social structure. The Pigs, who are smarter, become the higher-ranking officials, Boxer becomes the ideal Communist worker, and the sheep, hens, and cows become the blind followers. Although animal farm is mostly a critique of Communism, animal farm can also be…

produced, including humans, using Henry Ford’s principle of assembly line production. The society has taken this principle to the extreme, in that they encourage people to embrace this because it is a key to achieve efficiency and success. People were brainwashed to believe that efficiency, production and consumerism, are values of paramount importance. Furthermore, the principle became the root of their existence, thus, making Henry Ford a godlike deity. In addition to that, Ford’s principle is…

their lives. One source said, “North Koreans are presented as brainwashed marching automatons, while their country is viewed as a large prison camp from which they long to escape.1 Both notions may be accurate, but the motivation of North Koreans for staying in or leaving their country is more complex than these images typically portray. Recent scholarship has challenged simplistic representations of North Koreans as desperate, brainwashed victims.” (Fahy). This just goes to show that the ruling…

After the Holocaust, the world had promised that they would “never again let anything like this happen.” In the spring of 1994, all hell broke loose as one million people died in the Rwandan Genocide. What happened to the promise to never let another genocide occur again Racism, competition of land between Hutu and Tutsi, and denying the situation in Rwanda as genocide, the killings occurred and continued for 100 long days. However, that all happened because of European colonization in Africa.…

the children in the video are no more than 14 years old thus they would not have had enough experience in the world to make the right decision. (captaindarwin ) While some did this do to lack of experience while others did this because they were brainwashed by drugs and then threatened to kill or be killed. (captaindarwin) And the rest most likely joined to survive because they had lost everything to the war. (captaindarwin)That is why I believe that child soldiers should not be prosecuted but…