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Stalin and 1984 Mechanisms of Control In George Orwell's 1984, the strategies used by Oceania's "Party" to achieve total control over the population are similar
reading Orwell's 1984 and examining Stalin's rule over Soviet Russia it is safe to say that the two are very similar. Many features of Big Brother and Oceania mimic
is Adolph Hitler. Another very important point in 1984 is Big Brother. Big Brother is very similar to both of the leaders, Adolph Hitler and Stalin. During Adolph
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1984 Orwell's society displays a threatening projection of a totalitarian system into the future. Indeed it is a regime very similar to the tyrannies of the 20th
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Mechanisms of Control
In George Orwell's 1984, the strategies used by Oceania's "Party" to achieve total control over the population are similar to the ones emplaced by Joseph Stalin during his reign. Indeed, the tactics used by Oceania's "Party" truly depicts the brutal totalitarian society of Stalin's Russia. In making a connection between Stalin's Russia and Big Brothers' Oceania, each party implements a psychological and physical manipulation over society by controlling the information and the language with the help of technology.
In fact, many features of Orwell's imaginary super-state Oceania are ironic translations from Stalin's Russia. In Oceania, the "Party" mainly uses technology as the chief ingredient to implement a psychological manipulation over society by controlling the information they receive. An example of this is the big screen television set up in every person's home, and the poster all over the city. The giant "telescreen" in every citizen's room blasts a constant stream of propaganda designed to make the failures and short successes of the Party appear to be glorious. In Winston Smith's apartment, this "instrument" is always on spouting propaganda and constantly brain washing the peoples' mind. In actual fact, "It could [only be] dimmedÂ… there [is] no way of shutting it off". In doing this, the "Party" is in complete control over the citizens' mind, blasting
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what they want each individual to think (p.6). They psychologically stimulate each individuals mind, limiting their ability to think and have a mind of their own. In a similar way, Stalin's created "The Poster" and The Pravda (the Russian newspaper controlled by the government during Joseph Stalin's regime) to twist and manipulate the minds of people into believing that what they were saying was absolutely right and...
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