My research will be centered on fascism.
My question: Explain and analyze the techniques “The Party” uses to control the citizens of Airstrip One. Compare to equivalent examples from the real world, either present or historical.
I will be focusing on 4 different areas of totalitarian techniques used in history which Orwell also conceptualize and parallels in writing 1984: New Generation; Authority & Violence; Propaganda; and Cutting Sources & Rewriting History.
1. New generation
Educating and brainwashing the new generation is an important technique used to control the society. It is easier to control a child’s brain than an adult is because they do not have any idea about what is going on around the world. They believe in whatever you make them to believe. Also, since they are the next generation, they are seen as the future success, so it is critical for the authorities to put the idea of fascism into their head. In the book 1984, Orwell was inspired by Hitler Youth and the Little Octoberists while creating the Spies and the Youth League. These are groups which persuaded young people to love the Party and encouraged them to report every movement which can be count as betrayal of trust. (ibid) In Germany, in 1930s, an army of about eight million children promised their lives to Adolf Hitler. They were called the “Hitler Jugend” – the Hitler Youth. (ibid) The aim of this organization was to force the children join to the party. There was no family ties anymore, families were just small units of the government. Both the Spies and Hitler Youth were learning how to fight and propaganda had an important role on that. Alfons Heck was a member of the Hitler Youth organization in Nazi Germany. He first heard Hitler’s voice over the ra...
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-A video that Alfons Heck, an old member of the Hitler Youth, talking about his experiences and giving information about Hitler Youth
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Blaine Harden, former national correspondent and writer for the New York Times, delivers an agonizing and heartbreaking story of one man’s extremely conflicted life in a labor camp and an endeavor of escaping this place he grew up in. This man’s name is Shin Dong-hyuk. Together, Blaine Harden and Shin Dong-hyuk tell us the story of this man’s imprisonment and escape into South Korea and eventually, the United States, from North Korea. This biography that takes place from 1982-2011, reports to its readers on what is really going on in “one of the world’s darkest nations” (back cover of the book), that is run under a communist state and totalitarian dictatorship that was lead by Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and currently lead by Kim-Jong un. In Escape from Camp 14, Shin shows us the adaptation of his life and how one man can truly evolve from an animal, into a real human being.
Dieter gets a call and is asked to put on his finest uniform and to go outside at dawn. When he went outside he meets all his Hitler Youth general. They get picked up exactly at 5 am. They go to a conference where they meet Hitler himself. Dieter said it was the best thing that happened to him. Some days later dieter gets taken out of the commands and gets sent to the commands In the front. There he meets the corporal named Schafler. Dieter is asked to follow his orders at all times.
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Control is the ability to command a person to do what another person wants. This plays throughout the book by Big Brother. Big Brother is used by the main party to control the citizens. He is supposed to keep the citizens in their place. The quote “Big Brother is watching you” represents this. It makes sure that the citizens don’t turn away from the party’s views. If a citizen went away from the party’s views, “Big Brother” would execute them. Another version of control is formed by the party. They are called the three truths. The three truths are, “War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength”. These laws are reminded to the citizens because it is up on the tallest building for everyone to see. Control can also be pushed through fear. Fear is a very good companion for control. Room 101 is the worst fear imaginable to the citizens. I shows through this quote " I 've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn 't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I 'll stand by and watch it. But not room 101!". The man is getting ready to face room 101 and would rather give up his wife and kids than to go in there. That is true fear. Control had a major role in throughout the story, whether fear was involved, or it was just pushed on
”The values, beliefs and attitudes of George Orwell’s can easily be seen in the novel 1984, as no text is neutral. These values attitudes and beliefs have shaped the novel to reflect socio-cultural context and by the use of certain discourses, ideologies, and historical influences support the idea that) “The explanation of a work is always sought in the man or women who produced it “Bathes Roland (1977).
George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has been extolled by Western critics for its incisive political commentary on the social and cultural ramifications of a totalitarian government. After witnessing the alarming extent to which totalitarian governments in Russia and Spain would exercise their power over the proletariat, Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949 to alert Western nations on how to approach the imminent rise of communism. The text is generally received as a “negative dystopian” novel that focuses on depicting the degeneration of humanity through the ubiquitous influence of technology, propaganda and political discourse. As Orwell rightfully avowed in his essay, Why I Write, “every line of serious work that I have written
The Party is a totalitarian government. Neither the Outer Party nor the proles (proletariat) have any influence on the direction of their country or the rules that govern their lives. The Inner Party manipulates the media and infiltrates citizens' private lives to gain complete control over every aspect of human existence, including love and sex. When the propaganda, deprivation, and rigid guidelines
Upon my reading of the novel 1984, I was fascinated by George Orwell’s vision of the future. Orwell describes a world so extreme that a question comes to mind, asking what would encourage him to write such a novel. 1984 took place in the future, but it seemed like it was happening in the past. George Orwell was born in 1903 and died in 1950; he has seen the horrific tides of World War ² and Ï. As I got deeper into this novel I began to see similar events of world history built into 1984.
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Howe, Irving, and George Orwell. 1984 Revisited Totalitarianism in Our Century. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
George Orwell’s book, “1984,” has influenced its’ readers from the time it was written even until now. The book has presented a future different from that of the scientific future of flying cars and hovercrafts that society has presented to us. Instead, it tells of rotten political future. Today some people refer to our society as “Orwellian”. They believe Orwell’s story is realistic and compares to our present society. However, there are many people that believe “1984” is satirical nonsense. Orwell was not aware of the impact that his book would have on the world. Even people that have never read “1984” know who Big Brother is and use the term Orwellian. I agree with the realistic half of George Orwell’s audience. The book can be compared to today’s society in many ways. We are even beginning to see some characteristics of an Orwellian society in our social classes, laws, and wars.
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In conjunction with psychological manipulation is physical control. The Party is a totalitarian government and controls every aspect of life. Technology is yet another important theme. Technology is what gives the Party their power and influence. Big Brother, the symbol, as well as the telescreens are motifs that help drive the main conflict.
In conclusion, through Orwell’s uses of literary devices to imagine the abuse of power and living under a totalitarian government. Also to understand the theme of an indestructible totalitarian government throughout the novel. Orwell creates a different and a new world where there is limitation of freedom, expressing feelings towards others, and human qualities.
The outlook to the future is usually one filled with hope. When failures of the past and present problems collide together, the future is often seen as a place of hope. This mindset was no different in Britain during the mid 20th century, especially in the late 1940’s. World War II had finally ended, the days of fighting Nazi Germany was behind everyone but present circumstances were bleak. Britain was still recovering from the effects of World War II and handling the transition of a new socialist democratic government. From the east there loomed Stalin’s Soviet Union with its communism government and Totalitarian ruling mindset. Many were oblivious to the facts surrounding communism and looked hopefully to it. The reason for this was as Mitzi Brunsdale states because of “all kinds of personal and social inadequacies” (139). Many in the west were discouraged with present conditions and looked to Stalinism for hope. Many of the “Western support for Stalin often took the form of neo-religious adulation” (Brunsdale139). On the other hand, George Orwell stood in direct opposition. This resistance against the Totalitarian rule of Stalin was especially expressed in one of his most popular books called 1984, which “brings home to England the experience of countless who suffered in Totalitarian regimes of Eastern Europe” (Meyers 114). George Orwell through his life experiences and through the accounts of others had seen the dangers of Totalitarianism. In 1984, George Orwell exposed three dangerous aspects of Totalitarianism by showing the oppression of the individual's in the story in order to show the true nature of Totalitarianism.