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1984 A Dystopian Society

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Dystopian societies are characterized by degrading and devastating environments. The Road has a moral hierarchy that allows people to decide information and survival for future generations during devastation. 1984 focuses on a totalitarian government that creates holes in memory and history, while forcing citizens to ignore these changes through degrading punishments. As society advances with technology and government ‘programs’, citizens realize the catastrophic changes these advances cause, inducing fear. The sciences behind humanity’s biological needs are in jeopardy as governments are able to pick and choose what the population does and knows about them. History is subjective as people change the past for their own benefit. In 1984, the …show more content…

In 1984, there is a hierarchy system of an inner party, outer party, and the proles. The proles were “not difficult” to keep in line through controlling their biological needs, such as food and shelter (pg. 73). Proles were treated “like animals” and accepted it naturally, because the Party conditioned them through the withholding of resources (pg.73). A similar hierarchy is present in The Road as bad guys and good guys create this system based on their cannibalistic eating habits. Food is scarce in society as the Earth is barren of natural resources and all stores are empty, so desperate people turn to cannibalism for survival. A large group of “bad guys” are the “gods of war”, who kill everything to meet their need of food, meaning flesh (pg.92). The Gods of War are on top as they use intimidation of “slaves in harnesses” and raped pregnant women to easily trap their food source (pg.92). In North Korea, the government uses a “Public Distribution System (PDS)” to distribute food to “preferred citizens” while others starve, and shortages are explained by “war-preparation storage”(ReliefWeb). This system was created after it became illegal for the public to buy and sell grain, giving the government control of the food market. PDS has caused famine across the country due to the poor quality of distribution and the government refuses to debate on the policy. North Korea hiding the truth defends Orwell’s claim about the risk of the government

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Marcelo Navarro Mr. duryea English 12 March 15, 2018 Inhumane The Book 1984 is a book based on a totalitarian government where the government has complete and total control over every aspect of someone's life. In 1984 you couldn't even have privacy in your own home, you would be under constant supervision and if you were caught doing something illegal the thought police would come and arrest you. In 1984 the government controlled its people through fear, the people of 1984 where always scared of being caught doing anything illegal and where also scared because the government would bomb itself saying that they were in a war. This book shows what could happen if people would let

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Many people don’t know the real truth behind North Korea, but this book uncovers the many secrets that people like the Kim Dynasty have to hide from us. Many people including myself do not know much about the happenings inside North Korea. Before I read this book, all I knew about North Korea was that it was overrun by a tyrant named Kim Jong Un, and that it was not on friendly terms with most countries. I didn’t know that it held unjust labor prison camps like the one that Shin was held in. As Blaine Harden recalls, “Guards taught him and other children in the camp that they were prisoners because of the ‘sins’ of their parents”(Harden,18).

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Many a literary critic claims that the strongest aspect of the book 1984 by George Orwell is its plot. Indeed, there is some merit in this conclusion, as the entire purpose of Orwell’s writing of this book was not to create a literary classic, but to warn the public about the dangers of communism if it got out of hand, and what better way to do this than to write an engaging plot? Others may claim that 1984’s greatest strength is in its character development. This aspect, too, is quite strong in the book, as not only are the minor characters effected in serving the dystopian theme, but the major characters are believable and very human in their failings. Winston’s transformation from an oppressed office worker to revolutionary and finally

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With the use of effective visual elements coupled with commentary, Food Inc. aims to expose the corrupted side of the food industry. Heart-wrenching images of hundreds of baby chickens being raised in spaces no larger than a dresser drawer, hundreds of pigs being mashed to death in a single motion on the ‘kill floor’, and the industrialized slaughtering of cattle with dark music in the background, is depressing and an appeal to pity among the audience. These explicit scenes of the animal killings are intended to highlight the inhumane cruelty towards animals. Another example is the interview with Barbara Kowalcyk, mother a the young boy who died from e.coli poising, contracted by eating tainted meat, tainted by the way in which it was processed in the industrial factory. This story is a powerful way to appeal to the viewer’s emotions and illustrate the seriousness of the corruption within the food

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Government Manipulation in 1984 People generally rely on the government as a source of protection and stability. However, the government does not always have the citizens’ best interests in mind, as shown in 1984. The government has the power to distort realities and the ability to detect the truth. They can manipulate, or influence people’s minds without them even knowing. George Orwell’s 1984 uses a futuristic dystopia to show how the government is able to manipulate human values through the use of fear.

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In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, he uses truth and reality as a theme throughout the novel to demonstrate the acts of betrayal and loyalty through the characters of Winston and Julia. Orwell expresses these themes through the Party, who controls and brainwashes the citizens of Oceania. The party is able to control its citizens through “Big Brother,” a fictional character who is the leader of Oceania. Big Brother is used to brainwash the citizens into whatever he says. Orwell uses truth and reality in this book to reflect on what has happened in the real world such as the Holocaust and slavery.

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Not only does it outright say history has been destroyed: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten …” (Orwell 128). 1984 shows a unique way history can be manipulated through the speech itself. Newspeak in 1984 was the Party’s way of changing communication to restrict how people could talk. Speech is important; many phrases hold some historical significance, for example: “Never Forget” referencing the tragedy of 9/11, or even simple phrases like “Turn a blind eye” referencing events in the Battle of Copenhagen.

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Since articles published by North Korea are often fabricated to suit their political needs, they can hardly be taken to be true and accurate and hence, statistics and facts can only be implied from the closest available sources - those who have had access inside the country. Armstrong has drawn on archival sources from North Korea’s present and former communist partners (East Germany, the Soviet Union, Eastern European nations, etc.), the Cold War International History Project, the Woodrow Wilson Center’s North Korea International Documentation Project, and even interviews with Ethiopian officials who worked closely with North Korea. Although there is a lack of North Korean perspective, these evidences used by Armstrong not only provide a multi-faceted view and valuable insight into North Korea’s foreign relations, but also a more accurate representation of what goes on inside the hermit kingdom. For example, in 1955, the Korean Workers’ Party had reported a harvest of 3 million metric tons of grain. However, the Soviet ambassador said that the number was closer to 2.3 million, and even that might have been an exaggeration.

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However, in our modern society, with “fake news” become more and more prevalent, 1984 presents itself as not a view into a dystopian future, but rather as an increasingly likely possibility. That is why, when

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