Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism as a form of government gets represented in a multitude of ways in literature. Two particularly important and popular representations of totalitarian states are found in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Both are written as first person, diary style accounts. The information on how the totalitarian systems function is limited due to the constraints on information available to the narrators and the limits of what they share. These are two unique…

Methods of Totalitarianism The novel 1984 by George Orwell explores a world of complete and total government control. Being a dystopian novel, 1984 explores a bleak world in which all thoughts are monitored and the three major world powers are in constant warfare. Oceania, the superstate in which the book takes place, is under the control of Big Brother and the four ministries that help run the government. The four ministries can control all life within Oceania. 1984 shows totalitarianism in a…

Totalitarianism is the absolute control of people by a government or person. Totalitarianism restricts freedom and liberty. Totalitarianism controls the people. It controls their actions, opinions, life, speech, and happiness. Totalitarianism is a form of slavery, but there is not much rebellion. North Korea, Nazi Germany, USSR is all totalitarian countries. They all repress and oppress rights, but rebellion is not prominent. Oceana and the Republic of Gilead are both fictional dystopian…

again. They fought to influence the people that they are no different from regular couples. By being different, they were attracting attention which led to the negative consequence of getting assaulted. It is unlikely that Orwell’s theory on totalitarianism will occur in the future. North Korea and Iraq are two examples of totalitarian governments that exist in the present. However, it is unlikely for the United State of America to become a totalitarian because we have self-balancing…

Orwell’s primary goal in 1984 is to demonstrate the terrifying possibilities of totalitarianism. The reader experiences the nightmarish world that Orwell envisions through the eyes of the protagonist, Winston. His personal tendency to resist the stifling of his individuality, and his intellectual ability to reason about his resistance, enables the reader to observe and understand the harsh oppression that the Party, Big Brother, and the Thought Police institute. Whereas Julia is untroubled and…

Wake up, listen to the news, get ready for work, commute, work, eat, make small talk, clock out, commute, get home, listen to the news, eat, sleep, start over. For many this may sound like a normal, uneventful day but for the fictional occupants of Oceania this is life. George Orwell’s novel, 1984, describes the life in a totalitarian government and the consequences given when one is to go against that government. With this novel Orwell revealed to the word the downfalls of the East’s…

Totalitarianism, and the practices of principles of a totalitarianism regime are based off of absolute or ‘total’ control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. Hannah Arendt descries totalitarianism as control by total terror and is hidden behind a simple leader who presents an idea to the public that promises protection from insecurity and danger. The two may seem similar but there is one large difference. Hannah Arendt was not sure that genocide was a side…

“Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized” - Steve Allen. When one looks back to history for guidance in their future, they tend to ask themselves, “What can I do better this time, that I or others failed to accomplish back then?”. This is what the members of the Party asked themselves when they developed the ideology of their new totalitarian government. They developed this ideology as they looked upon the failures of past totalitarian governments and wondered how those failures could…

The novella, Animal Farm, satirizes the totalitarian rule of Stalinist Russia. The author, Eric Blair, known by the pseudonym George Orwell, uses a farm in which every animal and conflict is allegorical to the Soviet Union after the 1917 Revolution. Orwell portrays the working class animals as unaware of their significance, similar to the working class of the Soviet Union. After the rebellion, which represents the Russian Revolution, the animals anticipate an exponentially better life consisting…

that regulates and controls nearly every aspect of the public and private sectors.Totalitarianismregimes establish completepolitical, social, and cultural control over their subjects, and are usually headed by acharismatic leader. In general, Totalitarianism involves a one party rule, typically led by a dictator; an attempt to mobilize the entire populationin support of the official state ideology; and an intoleranceof activities which are not directed towards the goals of the state, usually…