Nineteen Eighty-Four

In Brave New World by Aldous Leonard Huxley the exile of characters allows them to see brand new feelings they have never experienced and how it is both terrifying and exciting. One of the characters who at first experienced alienation in the novel, Bernard is an example, the way he experienced exile can be applied to a basic human instinct to feel accepted. Bernard’s exile was more of an exclusion of himself. He felt unique, something that was looked down upon in this novel. He wasn’t the same…

Four “Lamb or Monger” “What's this?” Clay had slid a white piece of paper to Buff with the words “ELECT BUFF LAMB for SHERIFF” on it. “Guff, I want you to run for sheriff.” The words hit Buff in the face like a northern cold wind. “I'm not running and I want you to take my place.” “But what about Rex Thompson? He's your deputy and he says he's going to run!” “Rex is a good deputy but I've known you a lot longer. This county needs a man who won't back down from trouble. Besides, Rex is…

The animals and the events in Orwell’s Animal Farm represent the events transpiring up to the Russian Revolution. In HtRLLaP, Foster states that anything can be a symbol as long as it has more than one meaning, insinuating that Orwell’s book could also have symbols in them; the pig, for example, could represent the ones in power like Napoleon to Joseph Stalin. Conceit, greed, corrupt— those are the characteristic that Stalin had and those are also the attributes of Napoleon. Orwell wrote animal…

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell he shows how words are powerful and can have an unimaginable effect on people. The people that aren’t in the higher ranks of the separate societies have their minds constantly toyed with as their own governments spew information that is thrown at them to brainwash them. It’s made evident that to the Inner Party achieving is being able to use their words and other powers to ultimately gain complete control of every mind in the world. This heavily accounts for…

John Lennon was murdered in 1980 by Mark David Chapman. At the court case, mark help up the novel, The Catcher in the Rye and the only words he said was “it's all in this book”. Mark made such a connection with the novel that he believed John Lennon was a phony just as Holden thought so many people in New York were. Set in America, Salinger's novel, is successful because we make a close connection with the protagonist Holden Caulfield through the brilliant literary techniques and are interested…

Edward Snowden, the former subcontractor of the National Security Agency is a dishonorable traitor who threatened the welfare of The United States’ national security system. Through the works of prominent philosophers including, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Hobbes, and Henry David Thoreau it provides an understanding of the importance of establishing a proper punishment while enforcing the prior precedent. These works are able to be applied to Edward Snowden’s case due to his avoidance of accepting…

Orwell’s 1984 is a novel that satirizes totalitarianism and utilizes contrast and contradiction throughout to emphasize the party’s use of fear, restriction of independent thought, and abhorrent tactics, such as physical and psychological torture, to further their goal of creating a unified idealistic regime. In such a regime, all logic and rational justification that was previously believed to be true, ceases to exist–the party’s word and dogma is the truth. Contrast and contradiction are…

According to the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause…” Yet, in the United States at this very moment, the government is collecting information on everyone who makes any kind of call, sends any kind of email, plays any kind of video game, or owns any kind of computer. They are in…

In the novel 1984, George Orwell uses imagery to strengthen many aspects of the story. Three of these include setting, tone, and characterization. In fact, Orwell uses imagery so extensively in 1984 that entire pages consisted of detailed descriptions of what is being witnessed. Each new image that he introduced added more depth to every aspect of the book and painted a more vivid image in the heads of the audience. He, of course, uses other literary devices, but the imagery was by far the most…

Privacy and Protection In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother exploits surveillance to spy on everything from people’s daily actions to the thoughts in their mind’s privacy (Orwell). This book has left a horrifying image to its readers with the idea of the invasion of privacy through manipulation and misuse of surveillance. As extreme as that sounds, this could be the near future of Americans if surveillance continues to grow. Due to the disclosures of Edward Snowden on the flaws of surveillance,…