Brainwashed

is destruction purely for effect, death only as a message, for whom killing is a means of communication, I cannot promise we, or I, will give pardon”. This show’s how they have sacrificed their emotions as a result of war and how now they are “brainwashed” into only wanting to kill. They also sacrifice their lives as McCary talks about how he’s lost many friends because of the war. “They’ve killed my friends.. It’s nothing new, not really”. After being apart of war and seeing people die, death…

The quality of lacking meaning or sincerity is emptiness. It is the state of containing nothing. Ray Bradbury points out emptiness within his three books, The Veldt, Fahrenheit 451, and the Pedestrian. With the advancement of technology such as the creation of the television, technology has taken control towards the people of society that becomes the root of emptiness. Ray Bradbury remarkably depicts the concept of emptiness throughout these three novels revolving around the lives of Guy Montag,…

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, people are living in the nation of Oceania, where their thinking and behavior are completely control by the ruling political party. Warning signs are posted everywhere in the nation with the words "Big Brother is watching you" (3), private houses are also equipped with electric eye and a microphone, even a cough cannot escape the eye of the Thought Police. Even writing a diary to record their ideas can cause one to be arrested and sentenced to death. This kind…

Zimbardo implies says that people get morp by the the situation. This is proven with the guard. They immediately started to act like real security guards that treated the prisoners harshly. The prisoner with their humiliating clothes, and how the basement of the college looked the I believe he choose the situation over the personality trait, due to how through the experiment many of the individual personality shifted into their respective role, one prisoner started starving himself whereas…

In the story, there is a boy named Thomas, who wakes up in a dark elevator. To his surprise a bunch of teenagers rescue him from the elevator and welcome him to a place called the glade. In the story Thomas is the main character. When he gets out of the elevator he has no recollection of what had happened and why he randomly showed up there. All he knows is that his name is Thomas. Once he comes to the reality that this is actually happening, he looks around and sees that he is surrounded by…

The Bell Jar was written around the 1950’s and 1960’s, when women were expected to adhere to specific societal norms. Often, these norms included being a mother of children, staying at home cleaning or cooking, and being an obedient wife. Society placed high importance, along with these expectations/behaviors, on the women while they were at home or in public. Society accepted women who met all these factors. Esther, a character in The Bell Jar, and Sylvia’s autobiographical figure, lacks all of…

not use something so great. Connection between others is so important but when its all being tracked you loose who you are by subconscious manipulation and that is why we need the change. However, because we have so many security issues and are brainwashed by “agreeing to terms.” Our culture has become just one person collecting income on another person’s data. Billions of people are victim to being surveyed and and its ethically wrong because we can’t have a sense of security while wanting to…

Blood flowed on holy soil throughout the crusades, as the Western European Christians and Muslims clashed over land and faith. Christians felt that it was their God-given right to slay the unfaithful and take back their holy land, backed up by powerful bishops. The zealous pride of the Christians is evident in The Song of Roland, while further supported by both accounts of Pope Urban II. The sadisticly blinded Christians saw themselves as heroes guided by God while slaughtering men in the Letter…

“In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized” - Alex Grey, American visionary artist and author. Written in 1963 by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar is a stunningly intricate novel that tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a 19-year-old woman who has just been awarded an internship at Ladies Day Magazine in New York city. Although her life seems beautiful and full of opportunities, Esther comes to despise it as she slowly loses her mind upon returning from New…

and that Communism is fine or the other way around is just ignorant. In the Communism that this world has seen there has been one dictator making all the decisions. People are forced against their will to do whatever they are told. People are brainwashed and different thought is literally illegal (“Definition of a political prisoner,” “Power kills.” ). If you have ever read 1984 by George Orwell you understand the point. In a Communist society, one person is in total control, it is the opposite…