Nineteen Eighty-Four

controlled rights and freedoms, that was the most bizarre thing just because the fact that not only the laws were too strict but the freedoms that we have today as society were limited to none in the book. In divergent the government is almost split into four and your choose your own destiny, the government is more than controlling they are more deceiving and lie to the people who are apart of there clan. In both story lines the government is nothing like the government we have today, People…

Having family or people to care for empowers people to stand up against their beliefs despite the repercussions. In the novel We there are three characters that have different motivators to rise against the government. Mainly speaking of O-90 who wants to get pregnant, even though it is prohibited by One State if the pregnancy is not approved. She begs D-503 to help her, but he is hesitant to do so because he is aware of the consequences. O-90 says, I must have a child and I’ll leave, I’ll…

The short story Harrison Bergeron, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is a fictional story. The fantasy story was published in 1961 in the Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. In the story it was the year of 2081 and the government was starting to make everybody equal. The government was enforcing handicaps. The thing that helped them enforce the law was the 213 amendments. The handicaps included weights to slow the people down, masks to make the citizens not beautiful, and transmitters in the…

THE BEE MOVIE to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway. Because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.” SEQ. 75 - “INTRO TO BARRY” INT. BENSON HOUSE - DAY ANGLE ON: Sneakers on the ground. Camera PANS UP to reveal BARRY BENSON’S BEDROOM ANGLE ON: Barry’s hand flipping through different sweaters in his closet. BARRY Yellow black, yellow black,…

In George Orwell’s 1984, language is used as a means of manipulating and deluding the thoughts and emotions of the population. The Party is the totalitarian governing body that codifies and enforces draconian laws, rewrites history, and remodels the common language. Throughout 1984, the drastic ramifications of merely remodeling the language profoundly impact society. The Party’s aim is to have absolute control over all of the physical, mental, and emotional components of the Oceanic…

If Winston's newspaper is demolishing the use of bigger words, than why even publish his newspaper? He shouldn't have to “dumb down” his intelligence just so people could understand it. Throughout the book it is also explained that the people are under tight surveillance and the government also restricts what can or cannot be said or released to the public. Why would the public want to follow such a monarchy type of government? Are they scared to speak up against the government? People are so…

In the poem, “Beowulf”, there are several things about the culture arts of the time Beowulf was “alive” that stand out in the cultural contextual presentation. One of these for instance is how weapons were crafted in that time period. For example, how the pommel of a sword was crafted to help balance the blade of a sword. Another one of these things that surprised me was how important certain weapons were in 700 AD. I didn’t expect for certain weapons to be superior to others just because they…

Zaboosh I was packing up all my belongings at home, planet Zaboosh. I packed up my boots, toothbrush, and my hats. We are all pigs on planet Zaboosh, so we have a tradition that when you get old enough and mature enough you get to mover to earth, but if you don’t like it you can move back. I was really excited to see all the others animals at earth because all I see is pigs. I wobbled to my spaceship to leave Zaboosh. I waved bye to my family and we took off. I have never been on a spaceship…

This summer, I read Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. I chose this book because I really connected with Vonnegut's straightforward, matter of fact writing style when I read Slaughterhouse Five. I thought I knew what to expect because I was familiar with this author, but what I found was a much more passive exploration of morality and accountability. There are a few overarching themes to this story, but I think the most relevant would be the consequences of compliance. Our protagonist, Howard W.…

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…