opinion or perception of a specific topic. Rhetoric was used by George Orwell in 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
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The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell symbolizes the Russian revolution and how power in the hands of people who are self serving is dangerous. Although knowledge and education can bring great changes, in the wrong hands this power is extremely dangerous, people with power could withhold information and keep others uneducated, those in power can make or breaks laws whenever they want, and people with power will discriminate against those without power. In Animal Farm Napoleon had power and he
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1984 is a novel by George Orwell that broadcasted Orwell’s distaste for the direction society was going in. The society Orwell wrote about is in complete submission to the overbearing government, and does not mind. The main character, Winston, does not mindlessly agree with the government, as it seems everyone else does. This alienation is important to the moral of the novel because it shows that societies are easily manipulated, its easy for governments to become too powerful once they have control
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about Party Members of INSCOG and the proles. The two characters presented in the book could be foreshadowing the heroes for our time. Emmanuel Goldstein and Winston Smith are the protagonists in the book. Many elements in the year 2016, are in 1984. Orwell predicted that a powerful few will control an entire population of inferior humans. Today, the powerful few are the businessmen, CEOs, and the wealthy. The media calls the wealthy the 1% and the rest is the 99%. In the real world, the financially
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societies led by a totalitarian government found in the futuristic books and movies? Many seem to agree since technology has advanced to point where it can do as much or even more as the aged books have foretold. In the novel, 1984, the author, George Orwell, wrote about a distant future where everything was controlled by one person known as Big Brother. The main protagonist in Orwell's story, Winston Smith, believes that things are not as they should be and explains how they were always being watched
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Based on his knowledge of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, George Orwell, an English novelist and journalist, depicts the terror under a totalitarian government in his utopian and dystopian novel, 1984. Winston Smith, a member of the Ministry of Truth and rebel against the Party, performs rebellious and punishable crimes such as writing a diary with his thoughts and having a love affair with Julia, the “Thought Police” as Winston thought in the beginning and Fiction Department worker at the Ministry
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government control and the control within other groups of people. This control can affect not only me, but other people around the world as well. My purpose for writing this paper is to explain the things I have learned after reading 1984 by George Orwell. It was Orwell’s goal to write this book and state his ideas and theories about a strong totalitarian government. He provided clear examples in which we can recognize in our own modern day society. Before reading all of 1984, I only knew of a few
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Madison Mullane Mr. Cagley ERWC 6 April 2015 A Society Solely Based on Hatred and Fear In his novel, 1984 (1949), George Orwell tells a story that illustrates a society solely based hatred and fear. Orwell develops his argument, by showing how the structure of the society can survive, by showing ways how “Big Brother” catches the people who want to rebel against the party, in order to express how this type of society can survive. He writes this book to affect the minds of the young adults because
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manner that serve to reveal a critical underlying message. More specifically, notorious and notable figures are depicted in the story as animals, and through their behaviors, they reflect how people acted in reality. By providing a visualization, he Orwell mocks communism but also exposes and brings more awareness to the dangers and dictatorship of socialism. First of all, all the animals that are working in the story, represent the large, lower working classes of Russia, which started the Russian
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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. While the United States government has not forced telescreens in the homes of all Americans, they do use the technology that most
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