Nineteen Eighty-Four

Animalism fails because of who rose to power. After the animals had gotten rid of Jones, they felt as if they had gained power but when old Major dies the three pigs, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer take over, and even though Snowball sided with the other animals Napoleon took control through lies given by Squealer. Napoleon was selfish and he had a desire for power. His desire for power ended up making him just like Jones. To control his power over the animals he used Squealer. Squealer…

In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he shows us a world in which mind control, manipulation, and how the power of the government can lead to controlling the lives of citizens by spying and using fear to diminish their freedom. In many ways, our world is already like the fictitious one Orwell wrote almost 70 years ago. A totalitarian government is a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. One person or an elite few…

The Century of the Self- Part 1 is about how individuals who come into power try to control different crowds with the use of manipulation. In particular, it goes into detail about how Sigmund Freud and Edward Bernays were able to use their ideas to change the way in which society thought about themselves. With the use of their ideology they were able to change the way the world viewed the conscious mind. Frauds ideas showed that by satisfying people’s inner selfish desire, it made them think…

Big Brother is watching In George Orwell's book "1984", he wrote about a world where not only the words you spoke, but also your movements and even your facial expressions could be monitored. You were not safe in the streets, work, or even your own apartment. Does this sound familiar? Yes, Big brother IS watching you. In this essay, I will argue that the Internet of Things (IoT) will ultimately succeed in the nullification of our privacy. A future where various small, low-power devices…

What is the differences between a utopian society and the “world state”? By: Leon Pan 10a A utopian society is where individuals are free to do whatever they want. In the text “Brave new World” written by Aldous Huxley the government controls their people by conditioning them from a young age, controlling them with drugs and pleasure and by removing outliers or people with the slightest indications of individuality. In the text the whole world is under the control of 10 world controllers…

Draft #1 Many influential thinkers argued that Indian minds were fueled by the ideas of Western scholars and philosophers who never visited India, never dealt with Indians, and never read Indian literature. A key figure in this regard is Karl Marx and his Marxists vision of the world. Marx wrote thirty-three articles discussing and analyzing Indian affairs that were published by the New York Tribune, from 1853 to 1858, just after the Sepoy Revolt. In his articles, Marx has explicitly and…

GREEDY BUSINESS The Eleven Agents of Human Greed Based on the Book, “The Death of Human Logic” CHAPTER ONE: OUR INNER-STRENGTH: THE POWER OF SUCCESS. In our daily interactions with others, have you ever wondered about the diversity in our characteristics, especially the transformation from baby characteristics into adult characteristics? It is soothing to notice the characteristics in our innocence as babies and the loving and the adoration that we…

Progga Choudhuri FIQWS Professor Minnich Dystopian fiction emphasizes hegemony in a controlled environment. In 1984 by George Orwell and in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the ruling class dominates the masses through various mediums of control. Both books explores dystopia through authoritative control that is maintained by the socialization from a young age usings tools such as propaganda, education and history. The state plays a crucial role in the normalization of societal control.…

What’s with all these books in the nineteenth century about the future? Books like Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley and short stories like “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut make people feel that the future not as bright as it seems.These stories were made years apart from each other, but their main message is that the way the world is progressing people will give the government totalitarian control and become mindless sheep following their leader. With that in mind “Harrison…

“Everything has got to be smashed to start with our whole damned civilization has tog to go, before we can bring any decency into the world” ‘Mourlan’, in DU GARD’S Les Thibaults This quote is a good way to describe what Karl Popper labeled as Utopian Engineering to which he thought was the most dangerous Platonic approach to creating and running the ideal state. In the Republic, Plato has a Utopian Engineering way of how he wants to start and run his ideal state. This is something…