Helter Skelter, the song of a Beatles songs but also the phrase of one the most notorious cult leader. Charles Manson was a charming man with an idea of a perfect work for his perfect girls but that utopia quickly turned into a dystopia just like in the book 1984. A utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect (“Utopia”). A dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad (“Dystopia”). In 1984 Big Brother makes there world seem like a utopia by means of brainwashing, in The Family Charles Manson was a charming man that could brainwash a person just with words which made his seemless utopia a real life dystopia.
1984 is the most perfect example of a dystopia but Big Brother,
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To top off his charming personality he made them fear the outside world, “The core of Charles Manson's philosophy was a racial Armageddon. He preached that the black man would rise up and start killing members of the white establishment and turn the cities into an inferno of racial revenge. The blacks would win this war, but would not be able to hang onto the power he seized because of innate inferiority” (“Helter Skelter”). In the decade that Charles Manson cult was thriving, racism was still an everyday occurrence so to make people join he would preach to them this tall tale that would scare them and make them love him. Also the cult worshiped a figure head which would have been Charles Manson. “The Family exists today as young women who believe Manson is innocent and not responsible for the murders committed by his Family members…” (“The Family”). The young women believed that Charles was god and these young women were following someone they loved and believed it. Charles Manson to these young girls were what Jesus is to Christians and even to this day women follow and support him. Charles Manson made a utopia that even he believed was