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The Interactive Oral Commentary provided many intriguing insights into the thematic and contextual subtleties in meaning of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. In OneState all the creative pieces praise the government and essentially serve as propaganda, drawing a parallel between the OneState and The Party in George Orwell’s 1984. Both dystopian novels share a repressive government, which aspires to fully subjugate the individual to their control. I found Zamyatin’s narrative techniques very intriguing.…

Reality TV Programs The mass media by shaping viewer’s behaviors, believes and values has undeniably a great influence on today’s society. For many, television is a prime source of information and entertainment. Since late 90’s reality TV programs became one of the most popular genres of television programming. RTV creators gave an average person plenty to choose, from teenage moms struggles, people searching for a “true” love to those with serious issues like mental diseases and addictions.…

In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he shows us a world in which mind control, manipulation, and how the power of the government can lead to controlling the lives of citizens by spying and using fear to diminish their freedom. In many ways, our world is already like the fictitious one Orwell wrote almost 70 years ago. A totalitarian government is a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. One person or an elite few…

Progga Choudhuri FIQWS Professor Minnich Dystopian fiction emphasizes hegemony in a controlled environment. In 1984 by George Orwell and in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the ruling class dominates the masses through various mediums of control. Both books explores dystopia through authoritative control that is maintained by the socialization from a young age usings tools such as propaganda, education and history. The state plays a crucial role in the normalization of societal control.…

There are many different ways in which the CBS hit TV- show Survivor relates to both chapter 10 of our textbook, as well as the Emotional Intelligence book. The TV show illustrates the effects of throwing together a group of people who do not know each other, and forcing them to bond and hopefully win challenges and eventually win the grand prize of a million dollars. One of the most important aspects of Survivor, and life itself, is decision making. Decision making is evident in every episode…

In the book 1984 written by George Orwell (1948), the author presents Oceania, a fictional alternative of the British society in the year 1984. There are many parallels to be drawn between the society Orwell portrays in his book and USA today. Furthermore, by observing surveillance of the population, wars that never seem to end, and a perverted use of science, it becomes apparent that the fictional world is not so disparate from reality as one might think. In the society of 1984, surveillance…

To begin with Harrison Bergeron, “he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete…” (Pg.2), so, the civilization sees Harrison as an enormous hazard to them. For example, Harrison Bergeron was a rebellious citizen mentioned to be hazardous that managed to break out of prison. A fourteen-year-old, named Harrison Bergeron broke out of jail with the plans of plotting to overthrow the government. Then, he went on television and took off his handicap…

become completely controlled by the government? In 1984, George Orwell wrote about a world in the future where speech was greatly restricted; he called this language “Newspeak”, and it is very similar to the political correctness that is noticeable in America today. It was a language that was created by the totalitarian state, and it was used to limit free thought and any concepts in which the government felt threatened. Political Correctness is the avoidance of the sensitivities of others that…

The start of the novel Winston Smith goes to part of a city where the “Proles” live. While he’s among the Proles Winston goes to an antique store in the prole district and comes along to find a beautiful old looking paperweight. The store owner Mr. Charrington describes it as “a beautiful little thing” (84). The paperweight is meant to symbolize many of events and things that happen to Winston such as Winston's hopes and dreams and his future with him and Julia. He wants things to be normal…

Smith is the epitome of a citizen possessing individuality within Oceania as his efforts to maintain self-control of his progress in this totalitarianism society work against him. His distrust in humanity is the root cause of his rebellion against Big Brother. As he and his new love, Julia, revolt against Oceania’s laws through their individuality, O’Brien catches, captures, and betrays them. Brought into the Ministry of Love, Winston is endures torture and mind control in effort to invert…