Increasing Surveillance In Little Brother

Living in a totalitarian government, they have the power to re-write history books to depict themselves in a good, reliable state, so they can maintain supremacy. Furthermore, Big Brother is idolized by numerous people without knowing that he spreads inaccurate information about the past. Furthering the Party doctrines, O’Brien tries to express his view of a dependent mind reality.

Usurpation is changing the leadership of an aggressive government without altering the form and laws of that government. Only the people have the right to confirm their leader and choose the type of government they are governed by. A good leader works for the benefit of all people and abides by legislative laws while a tyrant while a tyrant acts on his own benefit and breaks the law whenever it pleases him. An executive body falls into tyranny whenever it stops working for the benefit of the people. When a government descends into a state of tyranny it should be dissolved and replaced.

The party in the book inspires their citizens to obey the party by monitoring , limiting consciousness, and torturing them. Totalitarian government monitors its citizens so they don’t rebel. The three most useful ways to monitor them are to use telescreen, slogans, and Thought Police. Telescreen monitors citizens 24/7 and inspires fear. In that reason, Winston “kept his back turned to the telescreen.

One of the greatest things that this act enabled was that it allowed the law to be updated in order to reflect new technologies. These updates allow law enforcement to obtain a search warrant anywhere where terrorist may be activity happening. Lastly, the Patriot Act increased the penalties for those who have committed terrorist crimes (DOJ). Anyone who harbors a terrorist, or the terrorist themselves face maximum penalties. The Patriot Act has “substantially enhanced our ability to prevent, investigate, and prosecute acts of terror”

So, this puts them at risk of developing morbid or extreme, jealousy. As Berit Brogaard points out, that forensic psychiatrists Michael Kingham and Harvey Golden in issues of Advances in Psychiatric Treatment wrote about how morbid jealousy is pathological and it is an irrational emotion that signals a psychopathological disorder. But jealousy in moderation is very normal and it can show how much we care about the other person. Morbid jealousy is signaled by irrational, obsessive thoughts centered around a lover or ex-lover’s possible sexual unfaithfulness, together with unacceptable or extreme behavior. However, it occurs more often in older individual and in males.

“Identity Thief” shows how in the pressure to adapt in means of hiding, the flaws still remain. The long, imposing nose symbolizes the need to lie to meet society’s standards but also the repulsiveness of it. In the past, to be able to please others it happened for me to create a small lie to be able to fit, however it has been something I despised about myself and ever since, I have been able to block the penchant. The blindfolded eyes symbolizes the self-disparagement in the fear to look straight which is a symbol of confidence, because of what society feels is conventional. Often, people struggle to find confidence and tend to hide behind the fact of being shy instead of working on one’s buoyancy.

Love creates loyalties, which the government might not have the power to control. Winston mentioned that the government’s “real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act” which restricted Winston before he had his sexual endeavours with Julia (Orwell 65). The power of human nature overwhelmed Winston, leading him to making rebellious statements with his relationship. Not only is sex itself illegal, the means which Winston and Julia took to perform the act is extremely bold. Both Winston and Julia had to illegally leave the city to meet up in the secluded woods and in Mr. Charrington’s apartment.

This shows the severity that almost all men have been subject to assuming a false sense of conformity due to the control of government over our everyday lives. However, Thoreau implies that humans can revolt against their own government if they feel as if it is becoming too tyrannical. This idea is more practical than rejecting government as a

Fear is a survival skill that tells you what to avoid in life and helps you become aware of different dangers. Yet, though fear helps avoid certain dangers, it can also lead you to a different type of danger: paranoia. If one lets themselves become trapped into their fears, paranoia begins to settle into our minds, making us feel as if these fears are surrounding us, and there is no such way to escape them. It can also make us so obsessed that we begin to have hallucinations, believing that these fears may be out to get us. In short stories written by Edgar Allen Poe, each main character experiences the helpful or harmful sides of fear and deals with it in different ways.

Winston is aware of the manipulation of media and his desire to deviate from conformity gives him a rebellious mindset. However, his encounter with Room 101 eradicates his rebellious mindset and he starts to ‘love’ Big Brother. Therefore, unlike Metropolis, Orwell portrays only the inability to change the future through rebellion in the rise of totalitarian