Totalitarianism In 1984

By manipulating history and giving no opportunity for inquiry the government dehumanizes the people even more by destroying free thought. The Party knows that memories will lead to questions, and then to critical thought. So it implements Doublethink and Newspeak as tools to negate the urge to question the legitimacy of the Party’s history. “The Party tacitly acknowledges the limitation of its control of the material and by implication the circulation of stories and memories by the implementation of both Doublethink and Newspeak. Doublethink can only be thought of as an imperfect system of thought control most at

An example of this is that they talk about how the equation two plus two is five. But everyone knows that its four, yet they brainwash and persuade aggressively different. “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it” (80). This is an example of how the Party can brainwash people to even thinking that somehow, in their mind even though they know that two and two is four. They make you believe that against everything you know, that it equals five. They tell you things, for so long and for so much that you start to believe it. If someone tells you something for a year, and you haven’t heard anything else for that long of a time. Then you start to believe it because you have nothing else to believe. This keeping the government in control because they don’t have memory of any of that stuff.

David Figueroa Eng. 101A Professor Stern 4/20/15 Final draft In conclusion, in discussions of torture, one controversial issue has been on the use of it. On one hand, the people against torture argue that it is cruel and unusual punishment. On the other hand, those for torture argue that it should be used for the greater good. Others even maintain that under extreme circumstances, it may be admissible if it can save American lives. My own view is that no one should be subjected to cruel punishment because it is not only illegal, unreliable, ineffective, time consuming, it also has too many flaws that could potentially ruin innocent lives. The definition of torture is any act, whether physical or emotional, or maybe both, is intentionally subjected to a specific individual or a group for many reasons. Most of these reasons that torture is administered is for extracting information from an individual or just for punishing him/her for a crime that he/she has committed or is suspected of committing. The use of torture can be used to intimidate a person to give information that may be beneficial for a nation. The use of torture has been used for many centuries. The purposes of using torture have changed over the years as well as the methods in which a person is tortured. One crucial piece that has been established that separates us human beings from barbarians is the prohibition of using torture. There are many reasons why torture has been deemed a crime now in society. There are

In contrast, some individuals may debate that torture and even some more minuscule forms of torture can be beneficial to obtaining the information needed. It is debated that torture has been used in a large portion of political systems in history, and that the “degree” of torture is a significant component when deciphering right vs. wrong. Moher argues that in a political system where torture is justifiable and legal, the torture used would be less extreme than what it is today (Moher, 2013). It is reasoned that different degrees of torture are more acceptable than others, in that some are less psychologically and physically harming. A

Levin, Michael. “The Case of Torture.” Evergreen, 9th ed. Susan Fawcett. Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2012. 438-441.

We see how this form of government and propaganda makes it impossible to differentiate between what is real and what is being made up- emphasis on how no one knows the reality anymore, because the world is as the party defines it.

When you turn on your tv in the morning, you see news, advertisements, and shows- all of them manipulate you mentally, and without you fully knowing. In many ancient and modern civilizations, people were- and are- driven by social standards and propaganda. The most effective type of manipulation that the party uses is mental manipulation.

The society we live in relies heavily on the presence of the media and the influence of other people. In many situations it would be fairly simple for the government to brainwash a society into thinking something had or had not happened. This brainwashing is depicted in the book 1984, where a society has been captured by a government that decides every move and thought in their daily lives. Both the world of Oceania and the world we live in now are heavily controlled by the media. Media plays a major part in the way everyone thinks, talks, and remembers instances from the past.

The use of torture as an interrogation method sparks many legal and ethical concerns. How can you authorize the infliction of physical violence onto a human being in order to gain information? As humans in Canada, we have basic human rights outlined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. According to this charter, under the rule of law “Everyone has the right to not be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment” (Section 12).

The United Nations defines torture as any act by which severe physical or mental pain or suffering is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining information or a confession, or punishing a person for an act that he is suspected of having committed. Torture also includes intimidating or coercing a person for any reason based on discrimination of any kind when a person acting in an official capacity inflicts pain or suffering (Convention Against Torture para. 2). Although some people believe that torture is acceptable, in reality it is neither an acceptable nor a reliable method for obtaining information and should not be continued.

Because of this belief, the Party controls all past history and changes it to be consistent with what is happening in the present day. They can also alter any past media that would arouse suspicion or distrust of the Party. Winston, the book’s protagonist, is even able to forge the existence of a nonexistent person. “Comrade Ogilvy,” he says, “who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past” (Orwell 47). The society under the Party’s control have no choice but to believe everything the government tells them. The Party is never wrong and has never done anything to cause harm, as far as anyone has proof. This altering of words and facts from the past allows the Party to keep control of the present and the people they

Doublespeak is the main idea in which the party controls their citizens by making them accept things they know are wrong without doublethink the totalitarian world would not exist because the people would not believe in what the party tells them to believe. The party uses childhood indoctrination to ingrain the ideas they want them to believe because when they are younger they do not have the mental capacity to fully understand what is said to them and know what is right and wrong about what they are being told to believe.

People in power rely on psychological manipulation to suppress others and control them. Propaganda is the centerpiece to controlling the citizens of Oceania. This propaganda raises morale of the citizens and brainwashes them into the party’s ideals. The party uses doublethink to change the truth and alter history to control the perception their citizens have. A good example of doublethink is the party slogan “WAR IS PEACE.

The Party looks to control everything – past, present, and future. Its first exertion toward achieving that objective is to control and manipulate each source of information, reworking and altering the content of all historical records and other evidence from the documents for its own particular purpose. The Party disallows its members to keep composed records of their lives, and commands that any photos or reports be wrecked through "memory openings" set all through Oceania. Since memory is inconsistent, after some time, reality gets to be fuzzy, and citizens are soon eager to trust whatever the Party educates them. In this manner, the Party controls the past keeping in mind the end goal to control the present.

The Communist Party is considered as a bad government. The Party which Big Brother, a head figure, leader is even worse than Communism. One of the huge differences between the two parties is the idea of torturing the people. A kind of brutal torture, not physical torture, but psychological torture and causing people live in crisis. Through psychological manipulation, the Party is able to make everything it lies become the truth that it desires. When psychological is instability, thinking about a regime overthrown is almost not possible. In 1984 by George Orwell, the Inner Party manipulates the population through torture since birth. The lives of the people are being deprived of freedoms, became a docile slave, serving an anonymous inhuman