Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Controllng the society

There are many ways that this society controls its citizens. The Big Brother tries to control the people's lives so it can prosper. They don't want people to know the past so they won't question the society. If they control the past they can control what happens in the present because the citizens don't know anything. First, they control the society through surveillance. They do this through the telescreens. If a citizen does anything they don't like they can come take him or her away and tourcher them or kill them. In the beginning of the day they make them do physical jerks which are exercises. They also use spies to spy on people to see if there doing any illegal activity. They control the past by Newspeak which is the news that can be changed at any time. Next, they change the records of the past to fit the present. To not remember current people they make people disappear like Jones, Rutherford and Aaron who were leaders of the revolution who Winston saw at the Chestnut Tree Cafe. Last but not least, they control the sex drive of the people. The only reason they are suppose to have sex is only for making children and not for pleasure. Junior-Anti sex league which is a group that doesn't have sex at all. The method is so effective because the people are so ignorant not knowing what is happening. They just go along hating Goldstein and living there lives.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Blog 2: 1984 Language to Freedom

Writing is a threat mostly because when you write in a diary you write about what happened in your day. When you do this your entry's become history and they don't want to keep written down history of every thing. They don't like them to keep photographs too because its history. He likes doing this because his curious about things and his dreams. Also, he likes writing in his journal because of his job. In his job he changes past information and documents to match present. In addition, he can write in his journal and put in the speak write and it would be gone. So looking at all the information and documents this gets him interested in writing. When your destroying words your deleting history and thoughts. When they all speak Oceania and speak the same language they can control them and everyone is the same. If they control peoples words they can make them say what they want them to. When people are not curious and intelligent the citizens are controllable and the society can function. The citizens can't remember the past and think about what happened because they destroy it. By controlling the present they control the past, by controlling the past the party can justify all actions in present.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Blog 1: 1984 the world

I think this world is made of fear and hate. It's made of fear because in their society you can trust anyone and everyone is afraid of everyone else. What makes people afriad so far in the book are the children, and the telescreen. People are scared of the children because they are insane and are like alien police. They are taught what not to do in their soceity and are present in seeng people get hung. Winston says that after two years Mrs.Parsons kids will be watching her day and night of symptomns of unorthodoxy. This shows how weird and scary children are in the soceity. Another thing people are scared of are the telescreens. The people of their soceity don't know who's watching them and when. The screens take up their privacy throughout their house because they are everywhere especially in their bathrooms. Since the evidence of most history is erased they can't write what happened to them in that day or they could be taken away. Hate also destroy's there soceity because everyday all the citizens meet up and scream at Emmanuel Goldstein, in the screen, who the cause for most of their promblems. They think that he is the cause for their problems.