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    In many real life and fictionalized totalitarian societies, children live apart from their families. Why would dictatorial leaders enforce this living arrangement? In the book Anthem, the children are living in a totalitarian society. This society is usually run by a dictator and there is very little or no freedom. In totalitarianism, the government or in this case the councils control almost every aspect of life. There is no free speech or freedom of the press; certain religions or ideas may be

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    A Totalitarian Society By: Constance Fyfe English 10 Mr. Sisneros 10/26/17 Totalitarianism is a form of total or near governmental control of people’s lives, actions, desires and thoughts. The biggest representation we see of this in Orwell’s 1984 is Big Brother which represents the government. Big Brother controls the actions, diets, jobs and even thoughts of the citizens of Oceana. As well as received information, history and physical needs. The “Party” and Big Brother (both representing the government)

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    Republic: Just Society or Totalitarian State? In the Republic Plato lays out his analogy between the city and the individual soul and identifies personal happiness with public justice. With reason as the highest value, and the philosopher king as the embodiment of reason in the city, Plato proposes a political state that, despite its ostensible argument for justice and the good, has been criticized as anti-democratic, anti-humanitarian, anti-individualistic, and in short, totalitarian. What is it in

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    These are the beliefs that the citizens of Oceania, in the novel titled 1984, written by George Orwell, live by. In this novel, Oceania, one of the three remaining world super powers, is a totalitarian, a society headed by 'Big Brother' and his regime, known as the ministries of Truth, Love, and Peace. A totalitarian government is defined as a government characterized by a political authority which exercises absolute and centralized control, and in which the state regulates every realm of life. This

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    any totalitarian regime. All of the animals on Animal Farm somehow contribute to either the creation, destruction, or temporary success of the totalitarian government. The original goal of the Animal Farm society is a socialist society, but it turns bad. As the animals begin the Animal Farm society, everyone is equal. As time passes, it is realized that of all the animals, the pigs are the smartest. This is slowly the beginning of Animal Farm moving froma socialistic socoety to a totalitarian society

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    Totalitarian societies are societies controlled completely by the state; all aspects of public and private life are run by the government. Communities like these seem almost far-fetched or even unrealistic to believe; this form of government seems to contain only certain aspects in fictional stories, but to contrary belief, places with these rules and regulations have and still do exist. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the book parallels between fictional dystopian society, Oceania, and real totalitarian

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    book 1984 brings up questions on society, love, and many more things. The novel 1984, written by George Orwell, is about a society where there is a definite ruler that uses terror and discord to rule. This kind of society is called a totalitarian society. Winston, after working and believing in the totalitarian society for 39 years, now wants to try and take down this society. He eventually meets a woman to where they “love” each other and both want the totalitarian ruling to end. While their attempts

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    If I lived in the same totalitarian society that Fahrenheit 451 was set in and I could pick three books to memorize, I would choose “The Origins of Species” by Charles Darwin, “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and “1984” by George Orwell. I would pick these books because there is a lot to learn from them. In this totalitarian society, the way that the government controls the citizens is by having their education restricted. The more educated the citizens would be, the more

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    the reader of future danger. The threat of a totalitarian society is what Huxley and Orwell try to prevent from rooting itself into the heart of today’s society. Brave New World and 1984 contain key parts that are used to establish a totalitarian society in order to portray the dangers of becoming one. Both Brave New World and 1984 societies manipulate family units, especially children, love, and sexual drive in order to maintain a totalitarian society. However, Orwell and Huxley portray the disruption

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    The Totalitarian Society of 1984 versus Humanization 1984, by George Orwell, is a novel of a totalitarian society consisting of two main characters, Winston and Julia, who are eager for a normal life without the Party. The Party in a simpler form is their government that controls everything including normal human interactions. Winston works in the record department apart of the ministry of truth and Julia worked as a machine operator in the fiction department, also apart of the ministry of truth

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