Ignorance In 1984

In George Orwell's "1984" society is manipulated and guided by an organization called the Party and an anonymous figure named Big Brother, who is used as God. One of the main aspects the Party controls is truth or tries to control is truths in the society and the truth in the minds of the individual themselves. The Party creates what they want to be true to make the individuals ignorant so they can manipulate them easier. This twist of the truth by the Party makes it seem like truth doesn't actually exist, but for Winston it does exist or it once did. Truth does exist if the individual is rebellious to the extent to where it will not get them vaporized and Winston is one of those rebels. He and others are able to experience

Like many I was aware of the eugenics movement in the United States in the 1920’s. However, after reading the story of Carrie Buck and learning more about the nature of the procedurals involved in these sterilizations I have a new found understanding of the roles Power and Othering played in the unlawful tests conducted on Carrie buck and many members of her family. The way in which those elite of the 1920’s mimics the party and the thought police in George Orwell’s 1984, is incredibly interesting to ponder. There are even instances of power and othering having the exact effects among nations today as well. The similarities between these major themes that we have continuously

Another behavior of human nature majorly violated in 1984 is how they allow one to process information. To take in information through the five senses, sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound, and react in the appropriate manner is how humans survive. The party, however, completely deprives the citizens of Oceania the ability to process information individually. Through the Thought Police, the party has the ability to restrict and even control how everyone is allowed to think, almost destroying any type of rebellion before it can even begin. They take their control one step farther and developed the process of Doublethink. This process makes it nearly impossible for anyone to rely on their own senses, but instead on what the party tells them to see, think, or believe. With the party holding this much control over its citizens, it can be easy to believe the party has violated human nature so far that rebellion or change doesn’t seem possible. However, as Winston states in his diary, “If there is hope, it lies in the proles.” (69). The Thought Police can only do so much. Because of Doublethink, they do not concern

Why do people that hate each other so much work better together than people who love each other? People who love each other never get the job done it seems, but people that hate each other get the job done fast and efficiently, have you ever wondered why? You may say maybe they get it done so fast just to get it over with so they don’t have to work side by side anymore, but maybe it might be because they take their work seriously and rather work together side by side rather than do it alone and fail. In George Orwell’s Novel 1984 the society they live in is based on hate yet it survives because they hate their ruler so much they end up confusing it with love and they become loyal under Big Brother's watchful eyes, fighting to please him and continue with his bidding. If any one person in the society is to express their hate for him they are sent to a place like a prison or more like a reform center to learn to disguise their hatred again by basically confusing the people into thinking they love him they manipulate their minds and they create a loyal subject once again, this is why I believe a society based on hate can survive because can easily be confused for love and hate can make a loyal person besides their negative feelings for the society.

A society based on hate will not survive, nor will it flourish and the book 1984 by George Orwell is a prime example of it. I think Winston was right in the argument he had with O’Brien because like he said in his diary, “I understand HOW: I don’t understand WHY”(Orwell 80). I think what he meant by that is he can see how people think a society can survive off of hate, but he wants to why would anybody, that have their own emotions and life would wanna live in a society of hate? When O’Brien says “only power, pure power”(Orwell 272), he really thinks power itself will rule anything, but if more people like Winston and Julia, people that think for themselves start realizing that they can make a change and if that happens it won’t be a society

Many countries believe that propaganda helps to institute a necessary level of patriotism in their citizens. Most authoritarian governments, the type of government that Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell illustrates, use propaganda. However, the use of propaganda also limits the freedom of people since propaganda can control thought and speech. Propaganda can influence people to believe that their country is the best country by either exaggerating the positive events that are happening in their country or by showing negative events that are happening in other countries. Nineteen Eighty-Four is more about the dangers of the government controlling people’s thoughts by propaganda than the dangers of an authoritarian government system.

The fire and the shadow provided the only reality for them. This was their source of knowledge and their source of contact with the world. For these people their “cave life” and their ignorance created a world worse than the blind man’s.

based on love can rarely exist in the right tense as it use to years

In this allegory, the men trapped in the cave can see only the projected shadows of the humans carrying artifacts, and not the artifacts themselves. Yet they still, as Socrates says, “hold that the truth is nothing other than the shadows of artificial things.” In this way, being down in the cave is the same as being unable to see the real truth to things, and being unable to reach enlightenment. The only enlightened ones are the ones who by some means can leave the cave and see things for what they are. Socrates calls them the

“They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself remained impregnable (Orwell, 174.)” There are some citizens who realize that the inner heart and innate essence of the society members are the only things that aren’t able to be damaged by the Party. In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, the protagonist, Winston Smith, is one of the few citizens who knows it is difficult yet crucial and possible to “stay human,” by preserving the fundamental traits of humanity and resisting the Party’s abuse of those characteristics.

Social aspects in the novel 1984 conforms to the conventions of the dystopian genre. Specifically, fear of the outside world and foreign people is spread to promote reliance on the government. “Then the sheep-face melted into the figure of an Eurasian soldier who seemed to be advancing, huge and terrible, his submachine gun roaring and seeming to spring out of the surface of the screen, so that some of the people in the front row actually flinched backwards in their seats. But then in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother…” (Orwell 15). This was Orwell’s description of the climax, when the treacherous Goldstein turns into an Eurasian killing machine by spraying

A famous science fiction movie named The Matrix tells an incredible story of actual and fake, real and dream. Basically, it shows a world which all people live in a artificial environment made by computer, the Matrix, by plugging in a connector behind people's head. However, people lives in the computer world for their whole life. Most of them could never have a chance to know what is the "true real" is. The main character Neo with his friends are few people who have came out of the fake world and decide to fight with that big prison.

           In George Orwell’s 1984, the Party’s slogan “Ignorance is strength” is the foundation of the security of Oceania’s society. The proles’ ignorance to repression increases the strength of the Party and Big Brother, allowing them to have complete control and diminish humanity.  The most gifted citizens are assassinated, whereas the less intelligent, perish.  In Oceania, the non-ignorant  and independent citizens who risk their lives and chose to rebel, are the weak and therefor collapse.

Nobody can disagree with the fact that George Orwell’s vision, in his book 1984, didn’t come true. Though many people worried that the world might actually come to what Orwell thought, the year 1984 came and went and the world that Orwell created was something people did not have to worry about anymore. Many people have wondered what was happening in Orwell’s life and in his time that would inspire him to create this politically motivated book. A totalitarian world where one person rules and declares what is a crime and what is not, is something many people would have been scared of a lot. The totalitarianism in 1984 is very similar to the Nazism that was occurring in Germany with Hitler. This could have been the key thing that motivated

The “Cave” was told as an allegory, a story that is compared to something similar, but unstated. The “Cave” represents people who think knowledge comes from experience in the world. This is known as empirical evidence. In the cave believers of this type of evidence believe that they are trapped in some type of cave. This cave that they are trapped in this cave of misunderstanding. The shadows are seen as those who believe in this type of evidence and that it guarantees knowledge. If what you see is what you believe, then that is the truth, it is just a shadow of what the truth is. The game shows that some people believe that a person is a master when they have knowledge of this world. Plato showed though that this master knows nothing really and thinks it is absurd to look up to someone so highly in such ways. The escape prisoner is like a philosopher. This philosopher is one who looks for knowledge outside of this cave. The sun then shows us philosophical knowledge and truth. The sun is wisdom. Then there was the return. The other prisoners were scared of knowing all of the knowledge of this world, so when the escapee returned they were shocked. The overall lesson of the “Cave” was that sometimes knowledge is a good thing, but sometimes if someone is