...Throughout the novels of 1984 and Frankenstein, the protagonist from each work shares similarities with one another. Within George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the protagonist is Winston Smith. Within Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the protagonist is Victor Frankenstein. Winston Smith and Victor Frankenstein each experience similar life lessons as well as similar feelings; however, differences can be uncovered as well. The act of rebellion is an act that both Victor and Winston encounter. Victor was a man of rebellion, beginning to end. Victor Frankenstein would turn his back on society and the rules in which they abide. He had created a creature. He had created a creature far from the ordinary human. Creating a human, even attempting to create...
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...Both 1984 and We depict a dystopian world where everything is controlled and everyone is watched. These books present societies where, no matter what, the governments can never entirely control the sexual desire of its citizens; although they are written 25 years apart, they both contain an ill-fated affair between an orthodox male character, who in the case of D-503 in We, fully believes in the regime, or like Winston Smith in 1984 who does not necessarily agree with the ruling party, but has surrendered to it, and a rebellious female character who eventually manages to sway the political beliefs of the orthodox male and make them seemingly more radical than the female. In both novels, the male characters are suddenly overpowered with emotion...
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...Love in George Orwell’s 1984 Love can play many roles in society. It can bring many people together happily or it can tear families apart so they will never speak to ach other again. Love can also be a political force. It can be an act of rebellion by individuals. It can also be a means to control individuals. This is what has occurred in George Orwell’s book 1984. George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 as Eric Arthur Blair, in Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was an administrator in the Opium Department of the Indian government. (Mullen 3) Eric, his mother, Ida Mabel Limouzin Blair, and his older sister left India for England in 1908. (Flynn 9) In England the family lived as a “shabby-genteel family,” in his own words, at Henley on Thames. This was a happy time in his life and an inspiration for some of his writing, such as the essay, “Such, Such Were the Joys.”(Mullen 3) Also at this time Eric first showed signs of poor health. His mother recorded in her diary her concern for his bronchitis and a weak chest. (Flynn 11-12) In 1911 Eric went to St. Cyprian’s prepatory school. He was eight. (Flynn 19) Eric’s family kept him there at a great sacrifice to his family but at reduced fee because the headmaster hoped Eric would be able to win a scholarship. At the age of thirteen Eric went to Eton College after winning two scholarships. Eric was at Eton from 1917 to 1921. (Hopkinson 276) Eric praised Eton by complimenting its tolerant and civilized atmosphere...
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...Nurse Ratched and Big Brother use all the power that they have to keep control of society. In 1984, control is kept by manipulation and fear. Big Brother is God-like and a symbol of power to the citizens of Oceania. Posters are seen everywhere saying, “Big Brother is Watching You” (Orwell, 3). This is to remind the citizens that every move they make and thought they have is being monitored. Big Brother replaces the love of all things in people's lives. They are expected to be loyal to him above all else, and even betray their own families in honor of him. If society is not loyal to him there will be consequences, like vaporization. Society can not be loyal to him by rebelling or committing ‘thought crimes’. The fact that the Thought Police...
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...Loyalty and Rebellion in 1984 Loyalty and Rebellion are the root of nearly every civil war ever fought. The two opposites rival each other as one side remains loyal to the governing power, and the other side rebels against the loyalist ways until all out war is fought. George Orwell's incredible novel, 1984, exemplifies these two ideas but in a slightly different light. In the book, Winston Smith and his lover Julia come together as two rebels against the overbearing Party that ultimately leads to their emotional destruction. In the throes of their love they profess their undying loyalty to each other, bringing the wrath of the Party down on them. By tying their loyalties to somewhere other than the party, Winston and Julia rebel against the party. Loyalty is Power. In 1984 the only goal of the Party is to have complete, absolute, pure power. O’Brien explains this to Winston saying, “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power... Power is not a means, it is an end” (Orwell 263). He later explains that the Party's total domination will create a world of fear and torture, “There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother” (Orwell 267). In this way, O’Brien shows that loyalty to anyone else would mean a divergence from the power of the party, a rebellion. Since...
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...of thinking can be modified or influenced by others. (BG) In the book 1984 George Orwell describes a government that brain-washes people’s mind. George Orwell describes Winston as a person who was a rebel, someone who wanted to start a revolution. George Orwell is describing a world where people are ignorant to not having rights and they are being separate by class groups. (TH) The book 1984 demonstrate that true happiness can only occur a person has the freedom to believe what he or she wants and when a person knows what is really going on in the world. (TS) Winston had a strongly belief that there would be a revolution and people will rebel against the Party. Although, after everything Winston was tortured and...
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...Mastroianni Professor Marilyn Boyle-Taylor EAC 236 Monday November 2nd 2015 1984 By George Orwell There are vast amounts of ideas regarding utopia and several authors who have contributed their work which have been studied for many years (decades) in literature. Utopia is something that is imaginary; it is an ideal state of command and vision of political or social perfection. 1984 by George Orwell is one of the most widely read books based on a tale for our future society that involved nothing less than extinction of humanity itself. 1984 is based on a totalitarian government, which is a type of government that tries to take over all aspects of life without any other parties or opinions that can conflict with the exercise of it. This novel is a story based out of London where the city is very run down and dirty, there is not a lot of food to go around and mostly everything is disgusting regardless. The main character, Winston Smith, is a man who works for the government and hates the way he lives in this society he is forced to be a part of. Every day he repeats the same routine and tolerates what is expected of him or follows the consequences if he stepped out of societal boundaries. One day, a woman named Julia, who worked in the same building as him, turned his life around ever so quickly. They both wanted to rebel against “Big Brother”, the party which controlled their lives. Behind 1984 there is a sense of injustice; man versus a political system that targets individuality...
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...control that the Ingsoc government exercises over its citizens relies on the alteration of historical documents, terror, and brainwashing. In 1984, by George Orwell, the entire plot revolves around Winston and Julia’s actions to defy the Ingsoc government and attempt to enlighten the citizens and retake their freedom. The main opposition they face is is Big Brother’s influence over the citizens and themselves. Big Brother employs brainwashing tactics such as constantly stating altered and fake information over telescreens throughout the day, Hate Week, and limiting the amount of words people know to prevent them from any sort of free thought. These actions continuously oppress the citizens with just words. The Party...
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...Bill O'Reilly once said "the more laws the government passes, the less individual freedom there is". This is suggesting a very good representation of a totalitarian government, where the more laws passed the more power the government possesses. Although the laws and government actions may seem beneficial to the citizens, the party manipulates the citizens with these enforcements and actions to maintain power in 1984 by George Orwell. The party uses technology to make people stay in order and not rebel against the laws of the society. The way that the party uses public confinement allows the government to control society. The government constantly makes the citizens afraid of the party and each other so that the citizens will not rebel if they do not like something. The party stays in control because of the technology they use to manipulate the citizens. Continuous warfare is a mechanism that the party uses to dominate. By being in continuous warfare, the party needs technology built so they can participate in the war. The party needed a way to keep the people hard at work without increasing the wealth in the world. Bombs and other material “must be produced, but they need not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare” (Orwell 190-191). The party makes the citizens create bombs and other warfare equipment constantly because the war never ends. This is an illusion to make it seem like the party and the people are on the...
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...If ‘1984’ by George Orwell had been written in a different time and place, how and why might it differ? The novel ‘1984’ by George Orwell, written in 1948, is a tragic illustration of what the world would be without the freedom to think independently. The internal context of the novel, which is set in London in 1984, whose protagonist is a rebellious low ranking party member called Winston Smith, is meant to portray a world of government domination defined by fear, hatred and ultimate control. The mode of the novel is written and the tenor is close as the story is told in limited third person. The target audience of the novel is people interested in reading and politics. Orwell wrote ‘1984’ as a warning against totalitarian tendencies and...
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...Citizens are perceived, whether they truly are or not, to be under constant surveillance by the authorities. There is also a strong sense of nationalism and citizens have a fear of the outside world and those that are outside their bubble. The society is generally stratified socially, economically, and politically causing a majority of inhabitants to live in a dehumanized state. For almost everyone except the protagonist, the society is a perfect utopian world. The melting away of this illusion is the journey a dystopian novel usually takes the reader. I can see these echoes of similarity between We and the many other great works of dystopian science-fiction such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 and, for this discussion, Orwell‘s novel 1984. Both stories depict a post-apocalyptic world that has come into existence after a nuclear war has realigned the all of the previous geographic, political and social boundaries of the “old world”. Both stories are told by a government bureaucrat of sorts, living in a peculiar, yet glorious, futuristic society. Both describe an insipid world where the desire for consistency, social order, and reverence had crushed almost any reminisce of true humanity, individual freedom, or emotion. Consequently, the fellow citizens of these societies have become warped, brainwashed caricatures of human beings and their interactions resemble that of a...
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...society in 1984. Whether it is beneficial or malicious, it is something that one must acquire to lead and take control over followers. Some say that it comes in the form of money and riches, and others say that it is intangible. However, there is one form of power that proves to be the most effective and cruel; it is ignorance. George Orwell could not have said it any better in his book 1984. “Ignorance is strength,” Orwell wrote in 1984 (Orwell 4). As stated, ignorance provides power to the foul government in Winston’s society. No one is educated about the truth of the past or the rights they have as a human...
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...‘Controlling the minds of the people translates to the control of the body’ how far do you agree? Totalitarianism is a common theme ground between ‘The Colour Purple’ and ‘1984’ where both protagonists seem to be ‘suspended’ and ‘were lost in a period that offered no hope of progress’ George Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple’ have a society where there is complete control and oppression, which eventually translates to the control of the body, we are presented with the party members and the black women protagonists being the proletariat of society, and never truly being free because ‘As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free’ however, we are presented objects and behaviour that can be described as liberating,...
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...MGMT 522 Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial 1. Apples 1984 commercial was one of the best of its time. Addressing social issue of conformity and government control that were big in the 1980’s with the USSR expanding. The principles of 1984 were close to people’s minds. It had an unheard of budget of $900,000. It was a time before Microsoft dominance were IBM was the big competitor in the computing game. Apple in that era pushed innovation through there graphic design interface. Where IBM pushed boring boxes for computers. The 1984 was highly successful with over 3.5 million dollars of Macintoshes were sold after the ad ran; Although Apple 1984 is a great commercial and used and innovative approach that was not seen before in marketing it is not the greatest. It was only aired twice. Other commercials like Where Is the Beef? Or Plop Plop Fizz Fizz or Coke Big Joe Green have much more play time and a better overall return on investment, having spinoffs. Apples commercial has not aged well because they don’t sell Macintosh anymore and their symbol has completely changed. Where where’s the Beef? Is still relevant. Having a much lower cost of production and played over and over again. Apple movie was like a master piece that did well at the box office not amazing. It is like Shawshank redemption a critically acclaimed movie. Maybe the best of all time but not the most profitable for the movie studios. Great cinematically and innovative using new marketing techniques but did...
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...The theme of Political Strife in Orwell’s 1984 Student’s name Institution name Abstract Orwell’s 1984 is another masterfully done piece of work that captures the political scenario across the world. Having written it in 1964, the book foretells the political events of the coming 1984 generations. This is a purely prophetic book that is inspired by Orwell’s sharp observation and political analytical skills. In this book, the life of the characters is purely determined by the political happenings of the time. (Bloom, 2007). Many literary and political analysts have found a place to refer to in interpreting political realities of the world in George Orwell’s works. Orwell is remembered for his other book Animal Farm that continues to spark emotional reactions from all over the world every day. A look at how the political theme gets manifested can help one to understand better the happenings in the story and their general applicability to the world we are living in. The Theme of Political Strife There are a number of themes that Orwell (1964) brings out in his book 1984. It is a prediction of the coming political sceneries in future since its publication came earlier before the year 1984. Among the major themes that can be found in the story are betrayal...
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