Power And Control In 1984 George Orwell

Seeing is Believing Power and control, the desire of all world leaders past and present. While the ideas of power and control seem simple, they are anything but that. They come in many different shapes and forms, and achieving and maintaining them is a very difficult task. In George Orwell’s 1984, power was the ability of the Party to manipulate the citizens of Oceania through propaganda and enforcement. It was the ability to make the citizens of Oceania believe that the party was responsible for everything good in their lives. That with the Party, they would be faced with war and oppression. Control comes from within Oceania. Tele screens in rooms and big brother monitor people’s actions while streaming propaganda. The thought police arrests people when they carry out an action that is categorized as an act of rebellion

Jeremy Bentham and Michel Foucault had similar opinions on how power and control is achieved, but where they differed was what power and control looks like. Bentham explains this in his Panopticon Letters, where Bentham discusses a structure that can very efficiently achieve control. Foucault speaks about similar ideas in Panopticism, the difference is that speaks more hypothetically about an idea and a phenomenon rather than a singular structure. The produced visual attempts to capture the ideas, notions, phenomenons and beliefs of the three authors. It also attempts to reveal something the world we live in today. In order to accomplish this, a singular clip was taken from the movie The Adjustment Bureau. The clip speaks about something on the other side of the spectrum, opposite power and control. But the contrast reveals a lot about the intricacies