...Nabeel Ellahi MYP-5 16/04/2012 History Can Censorship Be Justified? Censorship of information was a very important element in periods of time where propaganda was at its fullest and of course during the time of war, it was a great way to make people think how you wanted them to and to control them like a herd of sheep. From past studies we can see that censorship has been used for many purposes and the act of censorship has been practiced by many leaders. When used in situations like a war or when a leader is trying to bring reforms to a country, the use of censorship becomes understandable. To support this stance, lets take a look at past events which used censorship as a successful tool. Firstly censorship can be justified because back in the days of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, in their totalitarian governments authority was a very important thing to have; authority helped them keep control over the country and to enforce their will, they achieved this by censoring various materials to win the loyalty of their people. Secondly, during the government of Stalin censorship was used a lot and it helped him spread his ideas and commands to ensure him success in his goals which were to make Russia the best. And lastly during the great war when nationalism was at its peak, discouraging news such as casualties and battle loses were censored along with other news in order to make the public just know one side of the story, if these efforts would not have...
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...Why This Person is Superior George Orwell as a Novelist George Orweel is one of the leading novelists of modern age. His novels express a powerful sattire on the political and social hypocrisies. By thw quality of his writing, he has achieved international fame and recognition. In his evolution as a novelist he moved from simple narration to symbolic expression. But he has been criticised by many critics due to the lack of sincere characteristics of a novel in his novels. It has bveen proved that he has failed as a novelist. Tom Hopkinson opines, “Orwell’s reputaion as awriter rests largely on his novels, but his gifts are not those of a novelist; and, if the novel had not happened to be the prevailing literary form during the twenty years when he was writing, he would proably never have been attracted to it. Orwell had little imagination, little understanding of human relationshipl, little sympathy with individual human beings- though much with humanity in general.” O.D. Leavis also found that he had “wasted a lot of energy trying to be a novelist. I think I must have read three or four novels by him and the only impression those dreary books left on me was that nature didn’t intend him to be a novelist.” Edward M. Thomas also found that he did not possess the temperment of a novelist. Thus Orwell, who wished to produce more than thirty novels, had to admitin aletter, written to his friend, Julian Symons, “You are perfectly right about my own character constantly intruding...
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...Jennifer Molloy World Civ F period Mr. Santasiere Topic Paragraph The topic I am choosing for this paper is Belarus. More specifically I am going to focus on The Democratic Republic of Belarus. Belarus is considered a democratic republic, but I am going to focus on how it is a low-functioning Democratic- republic. I am going to use different types of government systems to explain how they relate more to the government system in Belarus. Belarus is more like a dictatorship and should be classified as one. Belarus is a small country located between Russia and Ukraine; it used to be part of the Soviet Union until 1990. Today, their government is republic in name only, led by President Alexander Lukashenko, although they are more like a dictatorship due to his harsh nature regarding his citizens fueled by his desire to control his country as a segment of the USSR. Belarus gives its people very few rights. Currently, Belarus has a low functioning Democratic republic due to the lack of rights and freedom offered by the government, causing them to be more like a dictatorship than a citizen-based nation which will result in low chances of Belarus becoming a full-functioning Democratic-Republic. Annotated Bibliography Levy, Patricia. Belarus. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1998. Print This is a written source that talks about the country of Belarus. This book has facts about the country of Belarus from past to present. The book described the past governments of Belarus and the...
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...Sussman 1 Adam Sussman HZT4U Ms. Efimov May 25, 2014 V for Vendetta Reflection Throughout the film V for Vendetta, V shows the audience his cleaver and insightful ways on how he plans to heal the damaged society. As V takes on the totalitarianism society run by the British Government, he displays to Kant’s theories that he is the opposite. Although his morals might be in the right place, he continuously uses others to meet the ends of his own means, which directly goes against Kant’s categorical imperative. Along with this, V’s revenge seeking mission goes against another maxim Kant put on his categorical imperative. This is the ‘universality’ maxim. If everyone were doing what V was doing the entire time, many more people would have been killed as well as they are would be no conflict in the first place. What the ‘party’ or the government of Great Britain has been doing the entire time would have never have occurred if they were all fighting the party like V was. V goes against every bit of Kant’s categorical imperative and justifies his own ends through other peoples will. V doesn’t force anyone to do anything in V for Vendetta but rather offers him or her a question of joining or opposing his ways. Sussman 2 As the film progresses, V just shows us how much he actually opposes the guidelines of Kant’s first maxim in his theory of the categorical imperative. The first maxim being universality, V shows the audience that he is the only one who can be doing this and no one else would...
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...The story V for Vendetta is a story about a government wanting to take over the world. Vendetta calls himself “the king of the twenty century. I'm the bogeyman, the villain, the black sheep of the family.” He wears a long cape, a big hat, he has long hair, tall, with a big nose and long face. He wants to make sure everything okay in this town. If you do something and he doesn’t like it who knows what will happen to you. In this small town there are camera in the street to make sure nothing bad is going on. Also so the government and police can watch everything for the peoples protection. Vendetta says, “The fifth of November the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason.” The government wants to control...
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...1984: The Party Vs Soviet Russia George Orwells 1984 was a novel of shocking circumstances. All matters in the book are surprising and eye catching to one built on the American society, such as myself. But what if we weren’t comfortable with a society of freedom? What if, likewise to 1984, we had grown up in the 1900’s Soviet Russia? Compared to 1984, Soviet Russia was very much “The Party” in these instances, ranging from the similarities in propaganda, style of government rule, and the forced lifestyles of its people. The ways that 1984 and Soviet Russia use propaganda are eerily similar. “Artists painted pictures glorifying Stalin and he dominated many pictures. It was not unusual for Stalin to be in a white suit so that he stood out from the crowd. He gained the nickname “Uncle Joe” which was an attempt to develop an image of a kind, homely man who was the ‘father’ of all Russians” (Trueman, 2015) and “Those who wrote poems and novels had to do the same – write about Stalin in a manner which gloried him”(Trueman, 2015), are two direct quotes showing almost complete exactness to 1984. Stalin dominating propaganda and being the “Fatherly Face” is much like Big Brother. Big Brother was the face of the Party, and was used to insure party loyalty. His face dominates all paintings and posters, while poems and newspaper articles were wrote to glorify the party. “On each landing, opposite the lifts shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures...
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...the novel “1984” by representing what it is like to have your freedoms taken away. The main protagonist, Winston Smith, often finds himself struggling with himself and others to find the truth. In Plato’s “The Allegory of a Cave”, the character struggles to get his point across to his friends who refuse to accept the truth. Plato and George Orwell use rhetoric to explain the importance of freedom, whether the oppressor is someone else or yourself. George Orwell’s “1984” represents what life is like under a strict totalitarian government through the use of rhetoric. In his document, “Why I Write”, Orwell describes himself as “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for...
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...#1 Aristocrats and lawyers are deceiving the people. The document states " In order to deceive them, they incessantly declare that none can discover any defect in the system but bankrupts who wish no government, and officers of the present government who fear to lose a part of their power." The people are checked and brainwashed so that they are in belief that their government is perfect, but really only the people that are manipulating know the truth. Who are the government and bankrupts who want to get rich, so go against government. #9 The author is writing as the aristocratic party as a kind of sarcasm. Stating "lamenting the many inconvieniencies to which the late confederation subjected the well-born, the better kind of people, bringing them down to the level of the rabble." The author writes this way because aristocrats have always been made to bear the weight of government. The people follow. That is their contempt. They are used to being led and listened to; it is by this method that the confederation succeeds. #46 The Anti-Federalists are using the congress as an example. As an example of supremacy. Arguing how the Congress is given this immense power to judge all cases. And bound to no limits. The people are wholly left dependent of members of the congress. The Congress in short has the legislative capacity to be like a fort over everything. There is no telling what the future holds as in Congress member wise. Will they be good or bad? Well the people will just...
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...Manipulation was a major theme in the book, Ender's Game. All of the adults in the book manipulated the children in battle school and told them lies that forced them to do dangerous things. Dink Meeker said that the adults were the real enemies, which was true because they had everything planned out and the kids were just a piece of their puzzle and had no idea what the international fleet was planning. The idea of the adults manipulating the children's lives is also seen throughout the book. The adults took children from their homes and pushed their bodies to the extreme just to train them into becoming of great use to the military. The adults manipulate Ender in order to fulfill their needs. They trick, lie and tell him just enough so that he can defeat the buggers. Basically, manipulation in Ender’s Game is a gray area. On one hand, it seems wrong to lie to and cheat a kid. On the other hand, the adults manipulate him to ensure the survival of the human race. Ender is constantly manipulated throughout the book about who his real friends and enemies are. He thinks Colonel Graff is his enemy when in reality he and the other adults turn out to be his friend. Ender is also manipulated into thinking the Bugger's are enemies and does not realize until it is too late that they are a peaceful race who just had a misunderstanding with the humans. Ender is manipulated by the adults so that he thinks their way. As a young child, Ender is a caring individual who, for example, cried after...
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...The witness who watches a crime and does not report it, is just as guilty as the criminal. The citizens of the United States are both victims and witnesses. Today's Americans, are victims of the unacceptable actions of the American government, but they are also witnesses who refuse to do anything about the injustice. George Orwell’s 1984, portrays life under an oppressive government that constantly spys on citizens, presents misleading media, and is constantly fighting a foreign enemy. Today in 2016, the United States government spies on citizens through technology, allows a media oligarchy, and is constantly in the midst of a never ending war. The unacceptable actions of the government in Orwell’s 1984 and today are eerily similar, and the solution to the problems is furthermore the same; the common people. Government spying is an unacceptable problem because it breaks the fourth amendment and allows citizens to be searched without any sort of reason or cause. The people of Oceania in 1984 were constantly under Big Brother’s surveillance, just as citizens of the United States are constantly under the NSA’s surveillance today. In 1984, it was written, “any sound made, above the level of a low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as one remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, one could be seen, as well as heard (Orwell 3). Everywhere in Oceania was monitored, even people’s own homes had telescreens that could see and hear everything...
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...“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell” (“Aldous Huxley”). The World State, in Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is a controlled society where drugs are the center and motivation of religion. The citizens are merely brainwashed picture-perfect clones used to conceal the conspiracies of the impertinent government. Huxley incorporates uncanny mood, concealed context, and spine-chilling foreshadowing in Brave New World to show that an ideal, happy, and well organized society cannot be achieved without the use of drugs and complete control over population, thoughts, and emotions. Throughout the novel, uncanny mood is included in the text to portray the emotional attachments the World State citizens have towards drugs. In the World State, all the citizens are strongly encouraged to consume soma, a monopolized and mass produced drug in the form of a tablet. Savages, unable to manufacture soma, consume mescal, an alcoholic drink which results in the user becoming “sick with peyotl” (Huxley, 120). The reader can infer that ‘peyolt’ is defined as self-hate and belligerency. Soma’s artificial happiness is endorsed by government official Mustafa Mond as an “euphoric, narcotic, [and] pleasantly hallucinant” (Huxley, 53) drug. The dominance in Mond’s voice creates a blinding mist of eeriness over the reader. It doesn't take the reader long to realize the disguised truth about soma; a shackling drug that results in the user becoming blindly enslaved by the government. Similar...
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...(H)Sometimes a person’s way 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 also he was brain-washed like everyone else all his beliefs were thrown away for the love of Big Brother because he no longer hated Big Brother and he lost his hopes about over throwing the Party. (QI) Winston lost his battle against the Party because now he loves Big Brother. (CD-Q) Orwell describes, “But it was all right, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (Orwell 298). (CM) Winston was finally brain-washed by the Party like every other person, but as I read the book he didn't seem like the type of person that will give up on his beliefs and just be brain-washed by the Party. Through the whole book he seems to have lots of confidences on himself about going against...
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...Hannah Arendt’s essay, On the Nature of Totalitarianism offers some very distinct definitions of ideologies and totalitarianism. Ideologies when used by a political leader drive their totalitarian movement. Elements such as rascism or anti-Semitism are real issues, however they become ideologies when a dictator pretends to frame a group of people, the Jews for example, for the fall of their nation. It is unfortunate and unfathomable to think the Nazi Party could rule over the nation on a foundation of lies. Enough people were brainwashed into believing that race ideology was “a living reality” (351). How could this many people accept these ideologies and have it result in the death of 6 million Jews and 5 million others? Once again, what was...
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... In George Orwell’s 1984 language has become a tool of mind control of the oppressive government and consequently a tool of rebellion against the Party. Winston Smith and Julia fight for the freedom of knowledge that has been manipulated by the Party’s control of everyday and historical language. The Party has created a language called, “Newspeak” which uses the destruction of words to make it impossible for future generations to think for themselves. The role of language in 1984 defines themes of control and the decision to rebel or surrender in a dystopian society where mind control has finally been enforced through language. The Party’s influence on language becomes crucial for its existence when those in power realized that control of language is the control of thoughts. By hindering one’s vocabulary, a person could be encouraged or inhibited from certain trains of thought. For example," In Newspeak, "free" could be used only in the sense of "this field is free from weeds" or "this dog is free from lice." The concept of political or intellectual freedom had disappeared, because no one could put it into words” (Hannan). If the Party desires its people to have certain motivations, the language will be modified to encourage that motivation and to discourage its adverse. Thought control is as simple as limiting the words a person’s knows. The Party’s manipulation of language establishes the theme of complete submission with the concept of “doublethink”. The word means “Reality...
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...All throughout London, Winston sees the posters of man about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features gazing down the caption ‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’ everywhere he goes. Big Brother is the leader of Oceanian and the face of the party. Big Brother symbolizes the party in its public appearance; but to most people he is a reassurance (his name suggest his ability to protect), but he is also an open threat (nobody can escape big brother). Not only does it symbolize public appearance, it also symbolize the vagueness with which the higher ranks of the party present themselves. Which makes Winston think who really rules Oceania, if Big Brother exist, if the government is telling them the truth. George Orwell uses...
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