The Big War

ideologies of his government, “the party.” In a pivotal moment where winston is forced to believe that 2+2=5, he loses all sense of personal freedom and is at the will of Big Brother, and thus comes into his place as a good party member. In part 1 and 2 of 1984, Winston posses abject hatred for the principles of the party, or INGSOC, and Big Brother. Refusing to completely fall victim the “doublethink” mindset that allows the party to manipulate its citizens, winston constantly checks what he…

The movie This is England talks about England in the 1980s, and about dealing with outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falklands War. It talks a lot about the skinhead culture that was popular during this time and how it was to be a skinhead. This essay is going to talk about these things and also about what the similarities that can be found between 1980s England and Sweden today. It's also going to be talking about the main…

Connect with characters in personal lives Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel Atonement and Tim Burton’s 2003 film Big Fish both share common themes throughout their stories. Atonement was later adapted into a movie by the same name in 2007, and Big Fish was based on the 1998 Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, and was later in 2013 adapted into a musical. Both focus around the themes of atonement, doing anything for love, family relationships, and the art of story telling. As the title suggests, the…

quote by Bob Dylan, relates strongly with George Orwell’s novel 1984. Winston Smith, the main character, in 1984, tells the novel through third person limited point of view. The story begins with Winston Smith describing his constant surveillance by BIG BROTHER and throughout the novel the reader witnesses Winston’s struggles against the government that controls the ideas and thoughts of its citizens. As the reader comes to understand through Winston’s eyes, the dangers of totalitarianism,…

Smith is the epitome of a citizen possessing individuality within Oceania as his efforts to maintain self-control of his progress in this totalitarianism society work against him. His distrust in humanity is the root cause of his rebellion against Big Brother. As he and his new love, Julia, revolt against Oceania’s laws through their individuality, O’Brien catches, captures, and betrays them. Brought into the Ministry of Love, Winston is endures torture and mind control in effort to invert…

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984 1984, by George Orwell is a book written in 1949, set 35 years into the future, that attempted to show what life would have looked like in a world in evil and chaos. The government stayed in power by using violence and force, by rewriting history everyday, distorting the truth and brainwashing the people to venality. Many people argue that the genre of 1984 is science fiction, but…

In doublethink, words are used according to the Party’s acceptance, and undesirable words are eliminated from the language. People in society are deceived by the Party through their language: “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength” (Orwell 4). The Party declares this as truth, but it just just another method to exert complete control and their desired way of thinking. It is apart of the concept of doublethink. Through these…

a great example of a society that has total tyranny. It was Orwell’s definition of dystopia and a warning to the modern era, which had great potential because the book was written during the rise of communism. In this book, the government known as Big Brother has total control over the people of Oceania through the usage of several tools and idea. Some of these tools and ideas were telescreens, doublethink, thoughtcrime, 2 + 2 = 5, and Newspeak. 1984 is perceived to have the three main…

Airstrip One in England was a country that was at war with other continents like Eurasia. The setting is in the city of York, where Winston lived. Big Brother was in control of all the people in the city and he used totalitarianism in order to keep the “peace.” Big Brother was an image that created the illusion of totalitarianism. Its ruling was achieved by controlling the ideas of the people by creating the…

can damage our world, and make it a terrible place to live in, such as the Soviet Union, And Nazi Germany. 1984 was written during the era of those events, and is definitely influenced by them. It is also mentioned in the book that there are constant wars between Oceania, Eurasia,…