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Propaganda In Chris Parson's Big Brother

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The media has negative impacts on children, changing their belief system constantly. The aim of media is to corrupt the new generations, which play a role of extreme importance for the future of society since they are the legacy of a nation. Through elements of propaganda and its audience, media reaches the young public by depicting strategic content that interests them. In the novel, the Parsons’s children represent the ramifications of the use of media on youth and the disfunction of the family environment. By analyzing the scenario of the Parson’s family, the reader’s notice that the roles of parents and children are switched, this way, the parents fear the kids because Big Brother uses them as an extra form of surveillance. With the intention to build a sanctioned …show more content…

Therefore, children become the main target of media due to the simplicity of corrupting them. Moreover, the use of intense words like ‘ferocity’ expresses the tone of the author, which explores the emotion of the boy as a concerning effect of propaganda. The influences of media on youth are not only present in dystopian novels but also in real life. In North Korea, the leader Kim Jong-un indoctrinate generations to maintain a stable government. In order to spread a dominant philosophy, social organizations, such as schools, adopt educational methodologies with posters, cartoons and books that are first inspected cautiously. Those features teach the North Korean children that the enemies are the United States of America and Japan, which can be compared to the countries that are at war with Oceania. Both societies utilizes slogans to tell their members that they need to hate their enemies no matter what. Furthermore, another similarity between Oceania and North Korea lies on the special events: The Hate Week and the International Children’s

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