Not only is violence a vital part of a totalitarian regime, censorship is as well. ... In the novel, the government censors information from its population. ... It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian government as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and other concepts that pose a danger to the government such as freedom, creativity, individuality, and peace. ... Using the memory holes, it is easy to censor information that is a danger to the totalitarian regime. ... Big Brother is the symbol of the totalitarian government in the novel. ...

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In George Orwell's 1984, the Party of the totalitarian country Oceania, which deceives the people through tricks and lies in order to maintain its power. ... And as allied nations, the US government also spies on almost every governments in NATO. ... Under the totalitarian governance of the Party, anything the Party claims to be the truth automatically become the truth. ... " (3) In totalitarian countries, fear is an effective tool of government to control the people and keep people obedient and passive, such as Nazi Germany, North Korea, China, etc. ... As a totalitarian state, the ...

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Rejali notes that "the three models of torture correspond roughly to the two main purposes of government torture: to intimidate, and to coerce false information.... This also shows that Orwell is very critical of torture and the type of governments that use it. The government portrayed in the book is a totalitarian one which is not afraid to use force to annihilate its enemies. ...

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Aldous Huxley's vision of the future is a world in which totalitarian regimes dominate the realm of real world politics. ... A government bureau, the Predestinators, decides a prospective citizen's role in the hierarchy. ... This is the justification for totalitarian government. The reasoning is that government, not individuals, knows best. ...

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Each of these novels also had a movie adaptation made; perhaps they were The Hunger Games and Divergent of their time. 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 have a lot more in common than just their publication dates; the background, characters, and plot are closely intertwined, although they have some differences. 1984 by George Orwell explores the idea of a controlling, rigid, totalitarian government which is referred to as The Party and headed by Big Brother. ... In both stories, the government is rigid and keeps its citizens ignorant, even stupid. ... Neither of these women has any real desire to overt...

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He demonstrated the repeated abuse of language by the government and by the media in his novel. ... People generally strive to expand their lexicon, the government in Nineteen Eighty-Four actually aims to cut back the Newspeak vocabulary. ... By manipulating the language, the government wishes to alter the public's way of thinking. ... Orwell's novel portrays a picture of a totalitarian system gone to the absolute extreme, but it is a novel that is primarily about psychological control of the public. ... When Alex is arrested he is shown that the government controls rebellion through...

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Almost immediately, Napoleon established a totalitarian government. ... Immediately the reader can begin to draw parallels between the book's characters and the government in 1917-44 Russia. ... Rather, "state communism" was established, where a central government owned them. ...

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Almost immediately, Napoleon established a totalitarian government. ... Immediately the reader can begin to draw parallels between the book's characters and the government in 1917-44 Russia. ... Rather, "state communism" was established, where a central government owned them. ...

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