The Big War

“Chandler mentions money throughout the novel as an ideal, a goal for the seedy crime ring that lives within the novel. Many of the characters kill and bribe for money” (Sparknotes, Themes, Motifs, and Symbols). This is a sobering reminder to post-War Americans recovering from the disorder and lack of money of the 1930s topsy-turvy economy, “many of the characters find themselves in troublesome situations, such as Agnes Lozelle and Harry Jones, therefore mirroring the desperation in which…

is on every poster and telescreen in Oceania, with the caption “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (3). Big Brother’s face is intentionally meant to look strong but caring in order to make the proletariat masses both respect and fear him. He is revered as an all-knowing perfect leader who never makes mistakes and cares for each citizen. Even the name Big Brother implies that he is both familial, yet wiser and more powerful than you are. Big Brother represents the aspects that the party wants the…

George Orwell is the author a dystopian novel called 1984. This novel was written as a warning to the western countries after World War II ended. It cautioned them from turning to totalitarian governments. This story revolves around a man named Winston Smith. It shows us a horrible and dark world through the eyes of Winston. In this world, there are many lies, brainwashed people, and strict rulers. The people of Oceania, the country Winston lives in, are continuously under surveillance. If…

religion as the way we like, and this would probably generate great issue or distortion in religious descriptions. There is no doubt that the variation of religions is strongly wide, and sometimes these differences cause problems or war as it happened before in world war two. However, I think when most of the people practice a religion with the right instructions, many universal problems will disappear in short matter of time. Therefore, I respect the different opinions about a person embracing…

rebellion by eliminating all the words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is deemed to be illegal. This is called thoughtcrime, and it is the worst of all. These regulations are controlled by Big Brother, a figure that no one has ever seen. In fact, there is no proof that says Big Brother is even real, but the “thought” of questioning such matter could cause a citizen to be vaporized. Such harsh consequence results in understandable fear among the people living in this society.…

apartment which monitors him and all the other citizens of Oceania at all times, he hates the fact that he has no contact with the world outside of Oceania except the vision of war captives being brought into Oceania, and more than anything he has an pure disdain for Big Brother. As he repeatedly writes in his journal: “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” [3]. D-503 distastes the concept of “freedom” and describes it as: “an unorganized primitive state”[4]. One the other hand, Winston Smith pleads for…

Newspeak or Oldspeak, and the 4 Ministry’s The Party can mandate and know the entire lives of the Inner Party, the Outer Party and the Proles. The Thought Police is a secret force who are always watching, and listening to scope out who is betraying Big Brother, the leader of Oceania, or is committing…

The quote “you can’t judge a book by its cover” can easily apply to the character of Winston Smith. The author might of chose to construct Winston the way he did was to keep the story interesting and the reader interested in the character. George Orwell also might of constructed Winston as an unjudgeable character to get the points he wanted to get across to the reader. Finally, George Orwell made the character of Winston someone the reader can relate to. Keeping the story interesting and the…

music has changed, bringing new styles and will continue to be a huge part of history. Music has always been around. Music has been in native American tribal language, war…

The party uses the concept of Big Brother to maintain power. There is absolute control over daily life, constant rationing, vaporizing of individuals who don't conform…