Nineteen Eighty-Four

Dystopian societies are usually described by many as seemingly perfect. Unfortunately, to achieve this perfect image, leaders must restrict the independence of their citizens and warp views of the outside world to make their way of living the only way to live healthy and happily. A dystopia may have the outlook of perfection, but their ways of achieve perfection are less than ideal. The leaders control propaganda shown to the public, the jobs they work in, and even the history to their taught.…

The trepidation to not offend individuals with wrong views or actions of any sort has gone past all limits; this has gone too far in today’s world charged with political correctness. The joy of learning often suppressed in an effort for an individual to acknowledge the world. This causes missed opportunities for new learning (and growth) to take place where one can discover how to deal with problems and challenges that may happen in their lives. It’s vital that we encounter the world as it’s and…

In the classic novel 1984, author George Orwell portrays a world in which a totalitarian government has overseen the nation of Oceania. The ruling Party uses many manipulation methods as mechanisms to control its citizens, making them blindly follow the Party without hesitation. Technological advances, such as the telescreens located in every single home, gives the government access to see and hear what all citizens do day in and day out, making no room for any privacy. Along with mandatory…

1. Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union are shown as leaders who destroy individuality to better control the citizens of Oceania in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. The character Big Brother and the Thought Police have a method to enforce the people of Oceania to possess the desired thoughts and emotions. The people of Oceania cannot think beyond the greatness of Big Brother and cannot feel any other emotions besides their love and loyalty to Big Brother, as well a hate for Goldstein and the…

Sometimes a person is not really what they are upon meeting them. People have a way to make themselves seem like a good person, but really they are not. Some individuals have something within them that triggers them into doing things, only for them. Most times they get away with it because other people do not realize it or want to make them angry, and/ or jeopardize their relationship. This happens frequently, and many times it is within the news and media which is selfish, and it is often…

the famous slogan of the English Socialist Party of Oceania, “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is strength.” The three string of phrases is what one would call contradictory phrases. They are polar opposites; They are complete one-hundred-eighty degree turns. How can the beginning words be so similar to the final words of the phrase? This is what Oceania (AKA Big Brother) is doing to its citizens. Even the children are evolving and are manipulated. The children are turning in their…

“The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression … It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all” said by the theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking (Phillip 1). He explains that human aggression is the reason for our inevitable self destruction. 1984 is a novel, by George Orwell, about a dystopian society that has a government similar to a dictatorship. The main character,…

The paternalistic culture that exists in George Orwell 's novel 1984 is dominated by a ¨fatherly¨ figure, Big Brother. Families, social groups, and governments are often controlled by a paternalistic idol. In fact, paternalistic hierarchies are effective in totalitarian regimes because a family unit is innate to all human culture. Thus, totalitarian governments use this hierarchy to their advantage by mimicking a family parent as a leader, establishing a social order familiar to family structure…

Mimi Petrova Period 5 11/12/2015 Utopia - The face of a well hidden Dystopia Utopia is a society who gives the impression of a perfect live, laws, and happiness for all the members, no flaws. A Dystopia is the exact opposite. It 's a world full of misery and nothing is perfect. In most cases Dystopias are formed from a society that was once a Utopia. People go looking for a perfect life and once they find it, it 's usually too good to be true. People start disagreeing, and then some of them are…

Brave New World is a cautionary satire that illustrates the dangers of an over-controlled society by dictators who attempt to create a “utopia” created on the foundation of “Community, Identity, and Stability”. In order to achieve a “utopia”, World State deprives arts, religion, and relationships from their citizens. Huxley’s novel shows the negative effects of ignoring one of Golda Meir’s beliefs that “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”…