Free Essays on Totalitarian

  1. 1984 Novel - Totalitarian Topics and Their Meanings

    2. For each of the words in this list, write a sentence that uses it correctly in relation to Orwell’s novel. Example: Totalitarian: Orwell’s novel shows how all totalitarian systems tend toward the destruction of individual freedom.   Totalitarianism | Political system based on absolute power...

  2. Is Religious Fundamentalism Always Totalitarian and Prone to Violence?

    previously are in support of violence. In fact, the importance of upholding law and order is a central belief among all of these movements. They are not totalitarian either, believing in the principle of democracy. It can be said, however, that some sense of totalitarianism can be felt within these groups. Their...

  3. To What Extent Does the Nature of Youth Organization in Totalitarian Regimes Are Similar

    IB diploma Extended Essay Research question: To what extent does the nature of youth organization in totalitarian regimes---------The Hitler youth and Komsomol Sigmund Freud once said: “throughout an individual’s childhood and adolescence, external forces are shaping his or her mind.” The youth is...

  4. The Totalitarian Grip on 1984

    English 12 CP 10/25/11 The Totalitarian Grip On 1984 In 1949 George Orwell, penname of English writer Eric Blair, wrote a satire of Communism in Russia. Although the story was meant to be fictitious, Blair’s thinking has been revered as prophetic and could be argued as a guide for a hypothetical modern...

  5. Book Review: Totalitarian Power in Elie Wiesel's Night

    Night essay In a totalitarian government there is only a few means by which the government retains power. The most important one is fear. In extreme conditions, fear can push people to do unimaginable things that normally would never cross their minds. Fear is the ultimate tool for controlling...

  6. The Presence of Flaws in Society and Providing Alternative

    through the recurring themes of power and human identity. In 1984, Orwell portrays an absolute totalitarian society set in the future which acts as a warning to readers about the dangers of a totalitarian government. This dystopia relates to Orwell’s context of advancing technology where tyranny existed...

  7. Animal Farm and Dystopic Literature

    betrayed by the same leaders who lead the coup d'etat, regressing the people-led utopia that had broken free from the shackles of tyranny, into a totalitarian society equally repressive. The incentives for the leaders' betrayal of the former revolutionary ideals lies in their desire to become the new bourgeoisie...

  8. Escape from Reality

    against the quest for power due to the totalitarian nature of the party, the socially constricted setting, and the rebellious desire of the Brotherhood to overwhelm the party. Orwell himself considers 1984 a satiric exaggeration of the abuse of power in a totalitarian society. In the novel, Big Brother...

  9. Why Did the Cold War Begin?

    since the start of the 20th century. In 1917, Russia was undergoing a revolution, headed by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Lenin emerged as a totalitarian dictator. However, from 1918-1921 there was a civil war between the Bolsheviks (Reds) and the Anti-Bolsheviks (Whites.) Both America and Britain...

  10. Calligrapher's Night and We

    recognized the dangerous impact that the media can have on a society. Even though the totalitarian regime was defeated in the Soviet Union, its’ fundamental principles are still a prominent issue here in America. A totalitarian government regulates every part of public and private life and also controls and...

  11. The Danger of Manipulation and Power

    the dangers of a totalitarian government. In this novel depicting a dystopian society, Orwell shows the horrifying amounts of power that the government is capable of obtaining and maintaining. Through the struggle of the main character, Winston, to escape and expose the totalitarian society of Oceania...

  12. Power of Language

    this power for their goals. I think, that distinction is just in the ways how to use it, not what kind of political regime it is, democracy or totalitarian. The great example of language power we could observe in the book of George Orwell "1984". The government of Oceania control the people...

  13. 1984 Essay

    invasion of privacy through the telescreen, and double think to exhibit the negative effects of a Totalitarian government. The Two Minute Hate Session exhibits the negative effects of a Totalitarian Government. The two minute hate session is a ritual the Party has members follow every day. There...

  14. Kkkkkas

    the Ministry of Love for crimes against the State and O'Brien is finally explaining what exactly the government's philosophy really is. The totalitarian government of Oceania is one directed by hatred of the individual. They bully because they can. They delight in doing so. They bait the populace...

  15. George Orwell's 1984: Comparing Government Then and Now

    security are stirring up emotions of American citizens and the media alike, asserting that our government could be altered from a Democracy to a totalitarian government and mimic the Orwellian society, which was once believed to be fictitious. However, although citizens fear that their privacy and personal...

  16. Modern Cuba

    overthrown in a violent coup led by Fidel Castro in 1959. In 1961 Castro formally declared Cuba a socialist state; it is now recognized simply as a totalitarian communist state (US State dept, 3/25/10). While the Cuba does have a written constitution allotting civil rights, it for all intents and purposes...

  17. ASH SOC 315 Week 2 Quiz

    depopulate West Africa so Europeans could immigrate there. 6.In 2011, which of the following countries best fit the definition of totalitarian? Mexico Serbia North Korea France 7.Of the following countries, _______ is NOT part of the “Global North.” Japan Brazil the United States ...

  18. Animal Farm Symbolism

    exemplified by the two pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, in Orwell’s Animal Farm. By authoring this novel, Orwell aimed to expose the truth behind the totalitarian-type government in Russia at that time. However, he did this in a strategic way by using animals to signify the different people that played a role...

  19. Mussolini and Hitler

    ABLE TO ESTABLISH HIS TOTALITARIAN RULE ON RUSSIA? Stalin, a Russian dictator who gradually build up power after Lenin’s death. After a series of power struggle between his rival, Trotsky, he eventually rose up thus establishing his Totalitarian Rule in Russia. Stalin’s totalitarian rule on Russia were...

  20. China Hosting 2008 Olympics

    Shawn China Hosting 2008 Olympics Totalitarian Olympics! That is what some people are saying because of China hosting the 2008 Olympics. There has been much controversy about how china should not have been allowed to host the Olympics because of their totalitarian government. But dose that have anything...

  21. Satire in Animal Farm

    The venture failed, and Animal Farm ended up being ruled by the tyrannical pigs, led by Napoleon. In the novel, there is an effective switch of totalitarian rule, from the incapable and despotic rule of Mr. Jones to the equally dictatorial and oppressive rule of the pigs, especially Napoleon. The...

  22. Governments, Rulers and People with Power

    about Germany under the Nazi regime? The Nazi regime was run by Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. 3. Find the definitions of the following:- Totalitarian = of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many...

  23. 1984

    films having borrowed the imagery of Orwell’s malevolently omnipresent totalitarian state and its breaking of the individual’s spirit. There are no more potent and savage a series of indictments of the anonymous machinery of totalitarian power than the images that Orwell emphasises – of the future of the...

  24. The Leader of the Nazi Party

    nationalism, antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor in 1933, and quickly established a totalitarian and fascist dictatorship. Hitler pursued a foreign policy with the declared goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for Germany, directing the...

  25. Gini Index Investigation

    Therefore, there is no area between y=x and L(x), because they are the same line. The Gini Index would equal zero in this case. In a perfectly totalitarian society, Lx is the vertical line x=1. Therefore, the area between y=x and L(x) is represented by a triangle with the area of ½. The Gini Index would...

  26. V as Revolutionary

    be found by recourse to the justice system—hence the name. V, however, doesn't live in such a society. The Britain that V resides in is a brutal totalitarian regime that is controlled by the very same people that wronged him. V doesn't have the option of appealing to the authorities since his victimizers...

  27. Huhuuhu

    Everything had to put the regime in good light, including all art such as music, painting, poetry, fiction, architecture, and sculpture. Totalitarian regimes set about actively shaping ideas through the constant use of propaganda and by establishing propaganda offices as a principle branch...

  28. The Orwellian Terms

    propaganda and observe citizens, the telescreens also symbolize how totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends instead of exploiting its knowledge to improve civilization. • Ingsoc- the ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania. Ingsoc is Newspeak for "English Socialism"...

  29. Peaceful Transition from Communism in East Central Europe

    line by the ever-present threat of Soviet tanks. For over forty years these citizens of the Soviet Bloc of east central Europe were citizens of a totalitarian state - a ‘regime that aspired to total control, not only of all organs of state but human nature itself. (3) Anne Applebaum claims ‘Britain and...

  30. Types of Governments

    In a military dictatorship, the army is in control. Usually, there is little or no attention to public opinion or individual rights. TOTALITARIAN: Rule by a single political party. People are forced to do what the government tells them and may also be prevented from leaving the country...

  31. Clockwork Orange

    Name: Professor: Course: Date: Consider the Claim that Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is a coming-of-age narrative Reflecting a dark totalitarian State, and regular youth driven to violence, A Clockwork Orange was written. Burgess introduces us to an antihero criminal whose motives are hard...

  32. nothing

    tactics used by the protagonists. The main message in both texts is to warn society against totalitarianism. It shows that if society allows a totalitarian government to rule, there would be no freedom. This is one of the biggest themes in both 1984 and V for Vendetta, and serves as the backdrop for...

  33. Criticism of Animal Farm

    Orwell, demonstrates, as an allegory of the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalin’s rule, how society can be affected by the powers and corruption of a totalitarian ruler. In the novel, Orwell replaces the characters and groups in the Bolshevik Revolution with farm animals. Napoleon represents Stalin, Snowball...

  34. Allianz Was Unjustly Denied Naming Rights to the New Meadowlands Football Stadium

    murdered. This wasn’t by any stretch a normal time in history, especially in Nazi Germany. It is referred to as Nazi Germany because Germany was under totalitarian rule by the Nazis, and you were with them or you were against them. And until 1945, if you were against the Nazis, you were in big trouble. As I...

  35. Thr Relationship Between the Personal and the Po L

    of 1984 is oppressive; love is not allowed. The environment will not make the natural development of anything possible, specially love. In a totalitarian regime, a system that's very oppressive, freedom is restricted to the extent that choice itself is negated. The relationship between the private...

  36. Cold War Introductory Assignment

    providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology President Truman’s way of providing economic and military aid to any country that had a threat posed to it from communism or totalitarian ideology Marshall Plan- United States program of economic aid for the...

  37. Political Freedom

    positive sense of the term which involves having the power and resources to fulfill one's own potential. The opposite of a free society is a totalitarian state, which highly restricts political freedom in order to regulate almost every aspect of behavior. In this sense ‘freedom’ refers solely to the...

  38. Totalitarianism in Germany

    As head of the Communist Party Stalin was in control of the Politburo. In other words Stalin had complete dictatorial power. The Soviet Union’s totalitarian dictatorship under Stalin grew harsh. Stalin began a purge of people in his party he thought disloyal to him. Through intimidation, brutality, and...

  39. 1984 Proles

    them every single minute of every single day. They are not checked by the Party on everything they do. This is why the proles have to stop this totalitarian regime. A wise man called Karl Marx said that revolt has to start from the lowest class. So should the proles in 1984, they could easily take down...

  40. 1984 Essay

    mind that they are the one in power and they should be followed at all time. Their word is absolute. The world of 1984 shows a totalitarian type of government. Having a totalitarian government is not good and it will only create conflict to people. Those in power would be greedy and they will eventually...

  41. v for vendetta

    struggle between the state and freedom fighter. The movie actually takes imagery from various classic totalitarian icons both in the real and fictional world. The movie clearly shows how the totalitarian strongly opposes the work of a freedom fighter. To them, freedom fighters are seen as murders whose...

  42. Utopia

    and land in the community as a whole. C. Communism: a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political part. 4. The issues discussed in book 1 are communism, issues around poverty and land...

  43. BUS 230 UOP Course Tutorial / Uophelp

    230 Unit 1 Part 2 For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Part 2 Debate the ethics of doing business in countries with totalitarian governments on the Discussion Board. Comment on opposing arguments, looking for holes and inconsistencies. Attempt to answer any arguments that...

  44. Concluding Lecture on Animal Farm

    difference between reality and the utopia they have envisioned. Chapter 2 By the end of the second chapter, we can see the similarities b/w a totalitarian system of government and the plot of Animal Farm. The Manor Farm represents a country under the cruel rule of an Imperialist system, with Mr. Jones...

  45. Handmaids Tale - Context

    dystopias create frightening worlds which serve as a warning to their own societies of the consequences for individual freedom of state control. In a totalitarian regime, it is the dominant ideology of the state that determines the social hierarchy and the lives and thoughts of citizens with state surveillance...

  46. thoughts

    be generally defined on a spectrum from left, i.e. communism and socialism to the right, i.e. fascism. Linz’s argument is on the description of Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, which brings the main and important argument of explaining both Presidential and Parliamentary systems. Another important...

  47. Essay on Atwood's

    suggests that, in a totalitarian society, people will oppress each other willingly, in order to find some measure of power, freedom, or peace. In addition, The Handmaid’s Tale encourages readers to question complacency in relation to their civil rights. The very concept of a totalitarian society is based...

  48. Nineteen Eighteen Four

    absolute political authority can be dangerous and result into societal degradation. This paper will explain the protagonist’s struggle within the totalitarian governance of the Party and the need to escape the constraints around him. The narrative is set in 1984, in a dystopian version of London “Airstrip...

  49. Ingsoc

    dystopian society is present in Oceania which oppresses the people without their knowledge. The dystopian society is maintained through the Party’s totalitarian control of the citizens and their thoughts. The Newspeak language is developed to restrict independent thought to a point where this eventually...

  50. In What Ways Does Orwell Criticize Soviet Communism in Animal Farm and to What Extent Is His Analysis Based on Real Historical Events?

    the period of the Soviet Communism. The novel shows how ignorance, indifference, wickedness and greed can transform the communist society into a totalitarian or even tyrannical world of misery. In a satirical way, Orwell, uses metaphors and personifies different kinds of animals to reflect real characters...

  51. Hiiiiii

    you have a co-chair then you cannot do anything without each other approval. When I say leader in control, I did not mean you can be completely totalitarian, always be open to new ideas from your committee members. As a chair you must complete the committee’s goal in the most efficient way possible...

  52. BUS 230 UOP Course/shoptutorial

    BUS 230 Unit 1 Part 2 For more course tutorials visit www.shoptutorial.com Part 2 Debate the ethics of doing business in countries with totalitarian governments on the Discussion Board. Comment on opposing arguments, looking for holes and inconsistencies. Attempt to answer any arguments that...

  53. The Rise and Fall of the Middle Kingdom

    failed) (1966.- Cultural Revolution .- Destroy the 4 olds, old thoughts, old culture, old habits and old customs) (as a Result, a totalitarian regime was established) -1973. DENG XIAPONG (pragmatic man) was brought by Mao to implement reforms. “who cares if a cat is black or white...

  54. Terrorism Is Curse

    Serbs, instead of just the concessions Ferdinand was contemplating. In the 20th century, terrorism was adopted as an unacknowledged state policy of totalitarian regimes to crush resistance and maintain complete power. Some notorious examples are Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union under Joseph...

  55. Winston Churchill and His Impact on Wwii

    via radio broadcasts, numerous lecture tours, perhaps the American government would have maintained their safe distance from Germany and Hitler’s totalitarian regime in Europe. It was the impact of Churchill’s eloquent and persistent prose that lead to the eventual changing of the tide of American sentiment...

  56. Amy Tan

    system of regulation and rules. In her essay, “The Beavers Scale of Family Health and Competence,” Maggie Scarf explains how families turn into a totalitarian state to avoid anarchy. One of the family members becomes a dictator and controls the lives of the rest of the family, affecting them mentally and...

  57. GED 216 Sociology Unit 4 Exam

    legitimated. b. relies on more than one kind of authority. c. denies most people participation in government. d. has free elections. 9. A totalitarian political system a. mixes politics with religion. b. is completely democratic. c. is government without any bureaucracy. d. concentrates power...

  58. hilton hotel

    political systems in different areas vary, the political impact differs. The country’s population democratically elects open government system. In totalitarian systems, government’s power derives from a select group. Corruption is a barrier to economic development for many countries. Some firms survive...

  59. Is He Really Watching?

    which was a fairly new idea, to persuade the German and Austrian population into believing his ideas and beliefs. A similar case is found in the totalitarian dictatorship world that was written by George Orwell in 1984. In 1984, a mythical figure, known as Big Brother, controls the lives of all through...

  60. Why I Would Live in a Democracy

    values are compromised to serve the interest of many individuals, presenting the society, but it may help the nation for the better. Unlike in a totalitarian government, where the citizens are seen as puppets the government can make, say, and do whatever they please with no consent but their own. The...