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Assessment In the U.S. prisoners are treated as sub-human and it is thought that the only way to shape these people into model citizens is to break them, strip away dignity until all that remains is a hollow shell, and fill that shell with the thick cement of mindless corroboration. The article “Michael Moore’s Portrayal of Norway Prison vs. My 15-to-Life Sentence in the U.S.” written by Anthony Papa in winter of 2016 reviews a documentary where Michael Moore, an award-winning filmmaker, travels…

Robert Icke and Duncan MacMillan’s confronting adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 was viewed at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Lyric Thetare. The despotic dimension of 1984, focuses on the dreary existence of Winston Smith (Tom Conroy), who aims to find meaning and affection in an invasive, futuristic society, where conformity, control and coercion are the standard and freedom and humanity serve only as a reminiscence of the distant past. Effectively, amplifying the continuous themes and…

Introduction The novel 1984, written by George Orwell 1949, depicts the perfect totalitarian society. The society is the most extreme imaginable realisation of a modern world where the government have absolute power. The inhabitants live under constant surveillance and even the smallest mistake can lead to a certain death. The United States have since their controversial ‘war against terrorism’ and the leak of information from the National Security Agency been highly questioned all around the…

In 1984, George Orwell depicts the outcome of the implementation of totalitarianism and communism in society. The main protagonist, Winston, resides in Oceania, one of the three nations in the novel, with the other being Eurasia and Eastasia. The Party, short for the “English Socialist Party,” rules with totalitarianism and expects absolute compliance from the people. Written shortly after the Second World War, 1984 describes a government inspired by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The…

The Effects of Totalitarianism on Civil Liberties Constant surveillance, militant police , public oppression, restriction of supplies. All aspects of a totalitarian state, suspiciously similar to our world don’t you think? I am choosing to focus on the threat that totalitarianism poses to our world and how it is subtly working it’s way into our everyday lives completely under our noses. The sources that I have chosen to demonstrate this are: the book ‘1984’, by George Orwell, the film…

Abstract: Bapsi Sidhwa’s third novel Ice-Candy Man was published in 1991. In America, her publishers Milkweed Editions published it under the title of Cracking India. Using a child narrator named Lenny, the novelist presents the Kaleidoscopically changing socio political realities of the Indian sub-continent just before the partition. This extremely sensitive story takes up the themes of communal tensions, using religion as a way to define individual identity, territorial cravings political…

Shawn Auchstetter November 27, 2017 Hum 310-42 Assignment 4 1984 Questions There are a lot of symbols, motifs, and themes within 1984. One of the main themes in the book is the idea of a totalitarian society. Orwell wrote 1984 to give Americans a possible society in the near future that could happy if Americans did not refuse the idea of a communistic society. One of the main concerns was that even though a communist society is an idealistic one, it is impractical as shown through the book.…

President John F. Kennedy once said “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” The concept of conformity and individuality is clearly illustrated in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Like most dystopian societies, Fahrenheit 451 contains a damaged society in which the people watch excessive amounts of television on wall size sets, listen to music on seashell radio sets, and drive extremely fast, not afraid to hit animals or people. The masses never think…

In Orwell’s 1984 the country of Oceania privacy is non-existing. Everything is monitored either by cameras inside "telescreens" or hidden microphones used to control Anti-Party actions. This is similar to America's government, in today's society, everyone is subject to the possibility of being spied on by the government through the vast amount of cameras we face in our everyday lives. But how are we supposed to acknowledge this to be a problem when we are so willingly and blindly contributing to…

The importance of silence in Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story hinges on the assumption that the spread of information is simultaneously valuable and dangerous. Each of these authors frame their stories around political upheaval where violence and oppression are constantly just beneath the surface. The apartheid-era South African activists of My Son’s Story, like Sonny and his wife Aila, use information to find support in a movement that opposes…