Four Worlds

was having sexual intercourse, gambling, drinking, etc. Their world was perfect compared to the outer party. If Winston Smith was a member of the proles, he would have done something, “but the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire” (Orwell 69). They minded their own business, kept to themselves, and stayed out of the inner party’s way. As long as the Proles see the world they live in is a utopian society, they will never see how…

(Humanosophy 1). Like Hinduism, Buddhism allows religious divergence. Unlike it, though, Buddhism rejects ritual and the caste system. Buddhism acknowledges the same teachings (doctrine) of Buddha, namely the purification of consciousness through the Four Noble Truths: 1.) Life is suffering, 2.) Suffering is cause by desire, 3.) The way to overcome suffering is through severing earthly attachment, 4.) We can severe our self from our attachments through meditation and leading a spiritual life.…

"For many, the American Dream has now become a nightmare." - Bernie Sanders, American politician Animal Farm is a novel by George Orwell, parallel to the Russian Revolution, in which a working class of farm animals overthrows their masters to create a communist society. However, when a pig named Napoleon gains power, things around the farm quickly go awry. George Orwell used Animal Farm as a warning to future generations. He encourages us to think freely and be educated to prevent the events of…

"Is Big Brother A Big Problem? The United States has always been a country of freedoms. In this country, we have been able to exercise rights that many countries would not even dream of. Documents such as the Bill of Rights have given us the chance to have freedom of speech, religion, and press without government interference. For a while, these freedoms seemed fair and just because everyone had a voice, and more importantly everyone thought people, even ones they did not agree with, should be…

and failures--we often turn to literature to show us a fresh view of the intricacies of our world. Two of the most iconic novels for examining issues of technology, government and corporation control, and privacy are the books 1984 by George Orwell and Feed by M. T. Anderson. Both novels are dystopian, 1894 set in a future where the government controls and watches everything, while Feed is set in a world where computers have moved to inside our heads and ads, corporations and shallow…

Dystopian Fiction is a subgenre of fiction that describes a hopeless future. “The concept of dystopia arose in the 20th century in response to such world events as the First World War, according to literary scholar Gregory Claeys.” (Scholes and Ostenson, Paragraph 3). The protagonist is often a person who is looking to find his or her own identity, thinks for him or herself, and questions whether the society he or she lives in is just. The settings of the stories usually take place in the future…

DEJ1: I definitely like this book, it shows what dystopian is, and the author creates the world the animals live in as something not the worst possible, but pretty close to it for the animals. In this world all the animals except for the pigs have no power. The other animals have to do what the pigs say and are killed if they don’t do as told. DEJ2: The books society is so different from ours, animals taking over humans? That'd be something to see! I think it's different and I wouldn't be able…

Imagine a harsh and frightening dystopia where controlling governments misuse technology, revise history and use fear and manipulation to maintain order. Is this a far cry from our society today? George Orwell’s, 1984, uses a grim, negative tone and irony in appealing to the reader’s emotional capacity for sympathy, fear, and desire while posing the rhetorical questions of reality versus truth. Written in 1949, George Orwell’s political novel, 1984, gives an exaggerated account of how…

experience with Julia since he says that he is attracted to her. This manifests the iron grip that the government has over everyone since they do not allow the people to engage in sexual acts. 8. Winston writes how there still is possibly hope for the world in the proles who are the majority of the people of Oceania who make up the working class. However, the problem with them rebelling he writes is that they have to be conscious. But, the only way for them to be conscious is to rebel. This…

Celebrities Hide from Their True Lives The world is full of diverse minds, which is why there are millions of different opinions and why not everyone is pleased by the same ideas. Even though people like to pretend there is a place in this world with a perfect government, laws, and social conditions, it is impossible to have that utopia (“Utopia”). A utopia always deteriorates into a dystopia, a place of unhappy and afraid people that are not treated properly (“Dystopia”). The story of 1984…