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    A totalitarian state is a reason for revolution and conflict. The world sometimes works under a dominant leader but when it does not, it makes a society change in an instant. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the themes and life lessons in a totalitarian state makes the novel a must read high school classic. The themes in this novel show how a totalitarian state can transform a society from working together to becoming the opposite of what they planned to become and what they sought out not to

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    book Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, celebrates the controversial and enduring legacy of her controversial prospective. The book is written in the context of a journal, in an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization. Anthem portrays a totalitarian world of the future along with being technologically primitive. The world of Anthem does not allow the people to think for themselves, but for each other. Not having the ability to think for oneself impedes man to be self-sufficient and in this

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    he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” In 1984 by George Orwell, this quote has the utmost prevalence. 1984 is a novel set in a dystopian society in which London, called “Airstrip One” in the novel, is under the control of a totalitarian government called “The Party.” The Party looks up to the teachings and beliefs of their hero “Big Brother.” This controlling government administers their citizens by giving them no privacy, leading them to believe that they are under a constant

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    because it relates to both 1984 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Fear is used in both of these stories to discipline the domestic population and ends up being effective. These two novels are ran by totalitarian like structures. The characters are under a certain person 's rule, creating the totalitarian government. In these societies, fear is used to gain power in these governments. The manipulation of fear is used in both 1984 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the manner of which the authoritarians

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    embodiment of the values that Americans hold dear seeing that the book is an exact opposite of said values. The book violates many, if not all, of a majority of American peoples’ values and beliefs. By describing the quality of life underneath totalitarian rules, it helps one appreciate the freedoms that we Americans have today, as well as proving that other forms of government are obsolete. Totalitarianism is when a government or an organization controls almost or every aspect of the country or

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    ideology through misleading the entire population with their clever techniques to accomplish their goal of having full power and eventually form a totalitarian society. Thus, in “The Handmaids Tale,” by Margaret Atwood, misinterpreted references to the bible’s scriptures and manipulative techniques are used by the Regime of Gilead to form a totalitarian society. The Republic of Gilead uses misinterpreted references from the bible, in order to support their misleading ideology and manipulate citizens

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    Ferris, he argues that people do not understand that the opposite of liberal is not conservative but it is called totalitarianism and creates a diamond description of political dynamics to prove why and what goes within a progressive, conservative, totalitarian, and a liberal. Why is it easier to understand politics this way? He also argues that when he mentions a “symbiotic relationship” between science and liberalism, people do not understand that science and liberalism is interpreted in a liberal government

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    which he had been exposed to all three of these systems. In the society of the Brave New World, which is set 600 years into the future, individuality is not condoned and the special motto “Community, Identity, Stability” frames the structure of the Totalitarian Government. The Brave New World “community” is divided into five castes ranging from the Alphas, who are the most intellectually superior, and ending with the Epsilons who are the most intellectually inferior. “Identity” is portrayed in the “Conditioning

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    Totalitarianism in Italy Essay

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    A totalitarian state is defined as “a few control everything,” and “the government controls every aspect of the citizens life.” This cannot be better exemplified than by Italy under the rule of the ruthless and violent dictator, Benito Mussolini. What a totalitarian state is, the characteristics it has, and how Italy turned into one are three points that will be studied in this essay. A brief look into Mussolini’s life and his rise to power will also be examined, as well as how his reign resulted

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    The dictatorial rules of Hitler and Mussolini and the life of individuals during that times and how the world will be transformed in the coming years, Moreover it shows the Stalin’s USSR which was becoming more of a totalitarian state. Thus the novel 1984 shows how a perfect totalitarian state would exist and how technology and surveillance is used to maintain totalitarianism in the state. As it is science fiction novel technology plays

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