Kim Jong-Il's Dictatorship Over North Korea

As they stay longer and longer in the camps, the prisoners began to become former shells of themselves and just had their physical presence to define them. They denied everything, not just human rights, but also their heart, soul, dignity, pride, bravery, confidence, and the

But it also had the power to liberate. Each morning, the workers found deformed bodies on the high tension wires’’ (Lengyel). The Jews had lost all hope during their time in the camp. Through the cruel dehumanization methods executed by the Nazis, they were able to crack the Jews' spirits and cause them to think death is the best

Many people don’t know the real truth behind North Korea, but this book uncovers the many secrets that people like the Kim Dynasty have to hide from us. Many people including myself do not know much about the happenings inside North Korea. Before I read this book, all I knew about North Korea was that it was overrun by a tyrant named Kim Jong Un, and that it was not on friendly terms with most countries. I didn’t know that it held unjust labor prison camps like the one that Shin was held in. As Blaine Harden recalls, “Guards taught him and other children in the camp that they were prisoners because of the ‘sins’ of their parents”(Harden,18).

And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work… Work or crematorium- the choice is yours.” (38-39) The officer succeeds in scaring the imprisoned Jews by giving them an ultimatum- work or die (pathos).

All of the prisoners were forced to look at the hanging child, “lingering between life and death, withering before our eyes” as they walked past to get their soup. Any one person could have saved him from this cruel death, but it would have only been in vain because the savior and the boy would’ve been shot (Wiesel 65). The Gestapo even forced a man to place his own father’s corpse into the furnace; he had no choice but to do it for fear of his body being next inside the furnace. As they were evacuating camp in the rail cars, the Gestapo ordered the men to throw out the dead bodies, which they agreed to happily because that meant more space for the living, so they threw the bodies out as if they were nothing, like “a sack of flour” (Wiesel 99). The orders to witness and commit heinous acts allowed the prisoners themselves to fall victims to accepting them and refusing to prevent them for fear of

The prisoners are kept in terrible conditions and forced to do hard labor for generations, unlike the Nazis who sought to destroy the Jewish population completely, the North Korean government seek to torture their prisoners without an end plan. The treatment of the North Koreans prisoners parallels that of the Jewish

The prisoners faced many hard times in their life being in the prison camps. The death totals were high, but God was in control during that time. He had a reason for everything He

The camp exhibits back-breaking labour and condemned mental freedom to restrict liberty, independence and serenity, ultimately to create senseless slaves. Prisoners exhibiting these extra traits (comradeship, dignity and ingenuity) demonstrate that they are resisting to become vitiated by the Gulag system, and through this they

North Korea is a black hole from the outside because we have no way of seeing on what 's going on in the inside. The literal walls block any any views from outside in. The people of North Korea are constantly being watched, “North Korea purchased 16,420 closed-circuit surveillance cameras from China in the first 11 months of last year as the regime stepped up the monitoring of its own people” (North Korea). Kim Jong-Un spent hundreds of millions of dollars to keep an eye on everything that happens. Much like in the 1984 Big Brother had installed telescreens in every room.

In North Korea, being in the Mass Games is a huge accomplishment. You train for hours on end so you will look exactly the same, as if you are becoming one. Even the military is so disciplined that they look exactly the same. But, the people in North Korea are different from the citizens in 1984 because they still have individual personalities. The Party convinces these people to all believe the same ideas and have the same opinions.

All prisoners from the concentration camps suffered in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Failure to comply meant one’s own death, and death of any individual would not stop the Nazi officers from finding others to do the job. To say any victim was worse off than others would be to belittle their suffering; suffering itself is not a competition. Tadeusz Borowski’s story is said to be “one of the cruelest of testimonies to what man did to man, and a pitiless verdict that anything can be done to a human being” (Borowski 12). Borowski’s disturbing account depicts the atrocities of victims-turned-executioner.

George Orwell’s 1984 is a precautionary tale of what happens when the government has too much control in our lives. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is at odds in a world in which he is not allowed to counter the government’s surveillance and control. Perhaps more striking is the noticeable relationship between the novel and modern society. In George Orwell’s novel 1984 the book predicts the surveillance of Big Brother in modern day societies.

In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, he uses truth and reality as a theme throughout the novel to demonstrate the acts of betrayal and loyalty through the characters of Winston and Julia. Orwell expresses these themes through the Party, who controls and brainwashes the citizens of Oceania. The party is able to control its citizens through “Big Brother,” a fictional character who is the leader of Oceania. Big Brother is used to brainwash the citizens into whatever he says. Orwell uses truth and reality in this book to reflect on what has happened in the real world such as the Holocaust and slavery.

Do you ever feel like you're being watched by the government?The novel 1984 by George Orwell is about a man named Winston that lived and a Society where the government called big brother’s stride to regularly every aspect of public and private life. In this novel the author Orwell Portray the perfect totalitarian society. The party controls all information and history of the town. The party also manipulated the minds of the children and the town. Big brother’s role and Oceania were to control any and everyone and the town.

Living through the first half of the twentieth century, George Orwell watched the rise of totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Soviet Union. Fighting in Spain, he witnessed the brutalities of the fascists and Stalinists first hand. His experiences awakened him to the evils of a totalitarian government. In his novel 1984, Orwell paints a dark and pessimistic vision of the future where society is completely controlled by a totalitarian government. He uses symbolism and the character’s developments to show the nature of total power in a government and the extremes it will go through to retain that power by repressing individual freedom and the truth.