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Identity In Animal Farm, 1984, And The Hunger Games

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A persons identity is the foundation of their being. Its who they are and its the reason behind the choices they make. Taking away or suppressing a persons identity is destroying who they are as an individual human being. A persons identity is formed by their experience, surroundings, people, and their own self discovery but it can be influence by others. These three pieces, Animal Farm, 1984, and The Hunger Games, each show examples of how identity has been influenced by the existing power structure. All of the characters experience the influence the structures have on their identity and everyone elses and how it can change them. The power structures influence identity by taking away individualism

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The initial leader, old major, dies and the other two pigs, snowball and napoleon, fight for the top leadership role. Napoleon takes over after kicking snowball out and makes things miserable for the animals by controlling them through the illusion of an ideal society. Napoleon convinces them that they live in a perfect world and that all the others farms around them are miserable. By doing this it makes it so the animals can’t complain because the other farms have it worse and this is a perfect world so nothing can be wrong, and if they find something wrong then it must be a product of themselves because the society is perfect. To keep up the illusion of a perfect society Napoleon silenced the people who disagreed and made it so others …show more content…

Its how they express themselves and by taking that ability away from someone you take away part of their identity. In 1984, the party created Newspeak. Newspeak is an altered version of the english language that takes away words and puts simpler ones in their place or getting rid of the word altogether. By limiting the amount of words people speak, it limits the amount of thoughts they can have, which limits the amount of ways they can express themselves and their ideas and opinions, that in turn, influences their individual identity. “‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it’” (Orwell 46). Your identity is part of the way you communicate with others and express opinions. The party knew this, and to take away the freedom of new and opposing ideas, they took away that part of peoples identities to make it easier for them to control the

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