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    In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” one important slogan of the government in charge is,“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” As evident in this quote, the government of Oceania is totalitarian, seeking control over every aspect of its citizens’ lives. Four ministries, the Ministry of Love, the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, and the Ministry of Plenty, micromanage the lives of the citizens in the Party. The Ministry of Truth replaces and…

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    1984 Media Analysis

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    How big of a role can media play in a society? In the novel “1984”, George Orwell builds a strong media system as a tool for the party to suppress and prevent class conflicts: it gives the public and outer party members an illusion of truth, while maintain their attention distracted from what is truly happening. The most noticeable contribution of media towards the totalitarian state of 1984 is trapping people and outer party members’ attention on what the party wants them to see, and…

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    The Jewel. In the series “The Jewel” by Amy Ewing, the dystopian genre shows itself through many dystopian characteristics such as a totalitarian government using propaganda to control its citizens. In these novels propaganda contributes to controlling the citizens and crushing dissent. Propaganda is used to hide the murder of surrogates through unwanted pregnancies with babies they are not compatible with. It is also used to convince the citizens that everything is fine and that the royalty…

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    Every human is born with rights that they will have until they perish. Some of the rights do not stay with them, the rights depend on the choices he or she makes throughout their life. In 1984, the author does not give humans many of those same rights that we take for granted, such as the freedom of privacy. Even the NSA watches over us in some aspects, we can do many things without other people noticing us. Orwell uses the Party taking away the citizens’ rights and freedoms to dehumanize them.…

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    internet would be detrimental to keeping INGSOC in power. If the people in the novel had access to such technology, they would be able to talk to one another and possibly plan the downfall of the government. If INGSOC had allowed for the internet and phones to exist, there is the possibility that the people would revolt or that citizens of the three superstates would be able to see what INGSOC was actually doing. Citizens would be able to see that INGSOC was changing the past to make it seem…

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    principles of “Ingsoc”, the political system of the Party, which denies people the access to the past and forces them to rely on what the Party says. A method stated as “doublethink” in Newspeak and reality control in Oldspeak, which are…

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    When Utopias Take a Turn Infamous artist Stephen King said in his book The Running Man “In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives”. Often times leaders or people with lots of authority have ideas of what they want society to be like and they start to make changes to work towards that goal. These perfect societies that these leaders dream of are called utopias. These important figures often go to the extreme with these ideas and start to enforce rules and…

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    everything. The demolition of family life plays an important part in how the government controls their citizens, turning children into spies and making sex purely for reproduction. The ways the physically control the citizens by forcing members of the Ingsoc party go through Physical Jerks in the morning to exhaust the person before they work long hours, makes it very easy for citizens to be brainwashed. The way the government controls the history and language adds to the people being held to he…

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    In George Orwell's 1984, a Novel about a totalitarian society, Oceania, that limits what citizens are allowed think, the society’s Government, Ingsoc, standing for English Socialism, rewrites history, replacing it with lies to maintain a good image. Oceania maintains itself through 3 principles, one being IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH; this relating to the way Ingsoc prevents citizens from thinking deeply, shielding them from the outside world, taking control of records, memories, and history, and even…

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    Power Of Language In 1984

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    In 1984 by George Orwell, the protagonist, Winston Smith, makes observations and analyses of the institutions that control his society. In Oceania, the country in which Winston resides, language is a powerful system. Language is a method of communication used by a particular group, and in Oceania, the language they use is that of Newspeak. Newspeak is a powerful force within Oceania due to the authority that is has. However, The Party, the organization who rules the society, has control over the…

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