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Propaganda In George Orwell's 1984

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In 1949, George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel, “1984”, and was viewing the modern society through a crystal ball. How could he possibly predict that modern society would experience the levels of social control he describes? In “1984”, Orwell portrays how television is used for surveillance, countries are at endless wars, and languages are deteriorating. The telescreens in “1984” are the eyes, ears and voices of the party. Not only do the telescreens watch what the citizens of Oceania are doing and saying at all times, but also filling them with propaganda. The parallels between modern advertisement and the propaganda in 1984 are relatively obvious. Just like in the novel, people in today’s society have our own little “telescreens”, right in our own back pockets. Today, social media keeps a record of our likes, activities, messages, and website history. For instance, Facebook monitors Google searches to target people's searches for “advertising purposes”. So after searching something up …show more content…

We seem to have a habit of moving seamlessly from one military conflict to another. Despite leaving Iran and Afghanistan in the past couple years, we're getting more deeply involved in nations like Libya and Syria. In Orwell's dystopian novel, there's a global war that has been going on for what seems like an eternity, as he explains on page **, “Winston could not remember a time where the country had not been at war”. The protagonist, Winston Smith, then came to the realization that the enemy is constantly changing. From being at war with Eurasia and allies with Eastasia; then next week, the opposite. How does a country fight a war with no defined enemy? Today we have the so-called war on terrorism against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), with no end in sight and an ill-defined enemy who could be anywhere, and

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Have you ever felt like the internet changes your opinions on a subject? In “1984” by George Orwell The government controlled people's thoughts and decisions through the use of propaganda. According to American Security Project “Propaganda is intended specifically to influence an audience's opinion or action rather than simply inform as do public affairs''(Mull) The World powers like China and the United States use propaganda on a day to day basis and in simple terms propaganda is used to influence a group or individual on a topic. American Security Project also speaks about how The US Government Propagandized its own citizens just like how in 1984 the Party used propaganda to control the citizens of Oceania.

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1984 is a novel which explores the life of a man living in a totalitarian society run by the Party (Big Brother). The Party is in control of every aspect of one’s life and it uses many devices to supervise and manipulate the citizens of Oceania. A big part of said devices is made up of technology. It is used to control people’s freedom to think and exist through use of propaganda, surveillance over the citizens, and to spread false information to control. Propaganda in 1984 was mostly deployed through technology in order to make the citizens obedient and to ascertain Big Brother’s control.

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The novel 1984 by George Orwell depicts a dystopian society in which a single ruling party controls every aspect of its people's lives through different forms of propaganda. Winston, the main character of the novel, is a middle aged man who recounts the totalitarian society through his eyes. The Supreme leader of the ruling party, Big Brother, uses propaganda by not only posting his face around the land, but also by engraving children's minds with an allegiance to himself. In 1984 Winston makes the observation that “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible” due to the immense use of propaganda to brainwash them (Orwell 24).

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“We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us… We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him” (Orwell 255). When people oppose a higher power, that authority will do everything within its capability to regain control. Though they may do this by simply taking over, others go to the extreme; they take over psychologically. The authority makes sure that they are the only thought in their people’s minds. The citizen’s devotion is only to their leader’s ambitions instead of to themselves.

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Another tactic used by a totalitarian government will use is the control of information. For example, you must always have your tele-screens on so that the party can use their propaganda against the citizens of Oceania; CANT FIND REAL WORLD EXAMPLE HERE. Another form of information that is controlled by the party is Oceania's history. In fact, Winston works in an agency for the party which rewrites everything such that the party is never seen as making mistakes.

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1984: Book Report 1984 was a book written by George Orwell in 1949 as a cautionary tale. He had written it during World War II and had seen the rise of Stalin and Hitler, causing him to fear a totalitarian takeover. It follows Winston Smith, a 39-year-old man living in Oceania, one of three totalitarian superstates, the other two being Eastasia and Eurasia, and how he navigates this world where his every action and every thought is monitored. Winston is against the regime that the party follows. This essay will focus on how media was used to push propaganda, and intrapersonal communication that Winston had done throughout the book.

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Propaganda is information disseminated to a target group of people in order to persuade them of an idea or a call to action through the use of incomplete or incorrect information. Propaganda was used for the first time on a global scale during the First World War. Unlike previous wars, this was the first war in which nations around the world were using propaganda as a technique to initiate hatred against enemy nations. Citizens were told by their governments of the evils and unjustness of enemy nations, and were thereby encouraged to enlist themselves in the fight against those nations. Germany employed one of the most successful propaganda campaigns: words and images were carefully curated in a manner that would maximize the effectiveness of the propaganda, seeding negative thoughts and emotions in the public and evoking fear and hatred of the enemy.

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In any government around the world, propaganda is used to toy with the minds of the people. The method of propaganda has gone back ages and has continued into the modern era. Known best in times of war, it is able to exploit many into believing something may or may not be true.     As time passed, more politicians and governmental authorities have grown to use propaganda to convey their specific information. These people chose to use this technique because it brought a different approach to how the message is being received.

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Both critically examine the idea of fully controlled societies, where individuals in power utilize their influence to incite fear inside a society in order to take advantage of its susceptibility for their own gain. In 1984, the Party used telescreens, slogans, pictures, and historical revision to spread its propaganda. In the novel, propaganda is continuously spread and consumed by the populace in the form of telescreens, slogans, and visuals. The Truman show uses their own actors to convince Truman that this is the life he wants and anything outside of it is dangerous or unknown. Big Brother's image with the phrase "Big Brother Is Watching You" underneath it is the most apparent.

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Propaganda and How To See Through It Propaganda a word for the systematic propagation of a doctrine that reflects the views and interests of those advocating such doctrine. Propaganda has long been the focus of efforts by totalitarian governments. Propaganda is used as a means to control those of which it is directed. Propaganda controls people by directing the aggression and resentment to a nonadjacent entity, taking away the sense and destroying the very logic that could be used to resist the propaganda itself of freedom, and to silence any of those who oppose that which the propaganda addresses.

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In dystopian literature human rights are stripped away from the common population to ensure the maintenance of power from the government without the threat of rebellion. The lack of basic human rights in these societies prevent forming close relationships and force citizens to become extremely loyal to the government. Also by preventing the freedom of speech, these governments can easily promote their own propaganda without the threat of opposition. In the dystopian novels written by George Orwell and Margaret Atwood the survival of the structure of these societies are supported by the suppression of human rights. Self expression by definition is communicating your own inidividuality through clothing, hairstyle (etc.).

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"No one is free, even birds are chained in the sky." Bob Dylan said that perhaps he does not know his intimate relationship with George Orwell's novel "1984", but could be "1984" as well. Orwell has shown a totalitarian dystopian world where there is no freedom and citizens are continuously getting brainwashed. Without any kind of personal fairness, people work for the party like gear wheels in the machine. To achieve this, in "1984" politicians end their freedom by suppressing the views of people and creating fear through publicity, strict laws and constant monitoring.

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Propaganda; information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Propaganda is a very manipulative method of controlling the audience's attitudes. In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, Winston Smith is a member of the outer party in the nation of Oceania. Winston, along with all the other citizens of Oceania, are constantly being watched by the Party through telescreens. Oceania is ruled by an omniscient leader only known as Big Brother, a powerful faceless figure who is feared by all of Oceania.

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Furthermore, like in the book 1984, the world we live in today is always at war. In Oceania they are constantly at war so that they can have a reason to take resources from the people so they will still need the government. We are at war a lot also but I believe it’s to gain resources for our country instead of waste it.

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Imagine being followed everywhere by a government agent. They’re watching your every move, and they’ll report you if you even make a wrong facial movement. This is essentially the case in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Run by an English socialist government called the Party, the people’s every move is watched through telescreens. Citizens are not individual, but rather an extension of the Party.

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