Brainwashed

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past,” (Orwell) is a significant slogan in George Orwell’s book 1984 that tells us how the party controls its citizen. George Orwell’s sinister visions tell us about an extreme totalitarian government that is ruled by Big Brother. According to Merriam Webster, “totalitarianism is the centralized control by an autocratic authority involving the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an…

the flame of its fire. In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque explains his war experience in World War 1 through a character, Paul Bumer—a kind and sensitive man. While in school, he used to write poems. Paul’s teacher brainwashed him and other students. He convinced them, by the idea of glory, and dramatic rhetorical for war and fighting for the sake of their country. After that dialog, the students were encouraged to enlist themselves and go to war. In the book, a…

and yet the government is the “Beast” here. They are forcing people to fight over stupid things like hairspray because it’s not available like it is outside this compound. And yes, this is a compound. These people can’t leave. These people are so brainwashed that they think it’s not okay for older men to be assigned 12 year olds to have sex with, but 16 is an acceptable age. How does that make any sense? They are still under aged and that’s rape. Over and over again the article talks about how…

“In order to find stability in the world, we must first find stability within ourselves” -Tyler J. Hebert. For Instance, if we are not able to exercise the natural right of finding content, emotionally and mentally, then how do we expect to be stable people and create a stable and prosperous society ? To be honest, we can’t, there must be a balance between both stability and freedom. Furthermore, being defined by others and being confined to daily monotonous routines in order to maintain…

The gradual and systematic dehumanization of Jews started in Germany in 1933, and did not end until the fall of The Third Reich at the end of WWII. The organized slaughter of millions of Jews in the Holocaust is something that one may find hard to fully comprehend. The film Schindler’s List demonstrates this social turn, whereby over the course of 15 or so years, one race of people was framed to be the cause of Germanys misfortune, to the point of absolute hatred and slaughter. The tracks of…

We as human beings live together in large groups who follow certain rules and regulations, both written and simply unspoken but known. Most of these rules we just accept for what they are and do not really pay much attention to them. We go along with what “the norm” is for life because it is easier to live that way rather than challenging how things work. However, if we take the time to sit and really think about what is socially acceptable and what is not, some may begin to question the…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World brings to light the consequences of losing one’s individuality. All around the world, children are told to be themselves. No one wants their children to be exactly like other children; they just want their child. They yearn for their child to be individual. However, one cannot deny that people will agree more often if they all shared a similar mindset. For example, if everyone in the American government thought the same way, bills and laws would pass more rapidly,…

racial purity; he believed the Aryan race to be perfect due to their traits consisting of piercing blue eyes, beautiful blond hair, and tall stature. Hitler emphasized the perfection of the Aryan’s by discriminating against all other races. Hitler brainwashed much of the German population to believe Aryan’s to be perfect, and all others to be inferior. He not only made Aryan’s sound like the superior race, but Hitler also influenced much of Germany to wish to resemble Aryan people. Hitler is a…

to those in charge. There is still hope to build a brighter future. 1984’s message is unfortunately less optimistic. Despite all of his efforts, Winston is ultimately unable to overcome the government’s control. He betrays Julia and he becomes brainwashed into accepting the ideals of the Party. In the beginning, he holds strong beliefs about his society and writes such things as “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (Orwell, 20) in his secret journal. However, the thought police are eventually able to break…

In the essay that I wrote “Being a Giver and Success” I quoted, In other words of Adam Grant in Are you a Giver or a Taker? He states, ‘We all have moments of giving and taking. Your style is how you treat most of the people most of the time, your default’ (Grant 2017). As this essay shows to introduce a quote you first must write a short sentence introducing the place where you got it from and the author. Then after that start with writing a verb describing what the author is doing when…