1984 Project

1. 1984 Project Chelsea Preiner, AshaThao, Shawn Halvorson, Zack Zippel Mrs. Thao Period 4/5

2. Major Issue:Psychological Manipulation

3. Major Issue:Psychological Manipulation • The Party is constantly showing influential messages on the telescreen so people can’t think for themselves.

4. Major Issue:Psychological Manipulation • The Party is constantly showing influential things on the telescreen so people can’t think for themselves. • A telescreen in every room manipulates the Party’s failures to brainwash the public into thinking they are actually successes.

5. Major Issue:Psychological Manipulation • The Party is constantly showing influential things on the telescreen so people can’t think for themselves. • A telescreen in every room manipulates the Party’s failures to brainwash the public into thinking they are actually successes. • They observe everything the people do with constant reminders that say “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!”

6. Major Issue:Psychological Manipulation • The Party is constantly showing influential things on the telescreen so people can’t think for themselves. • A telescreen in every room manipulates the Party’s failures to brainwash the public into thinking they are actually successes • They observe everything the people do with constant reminders that say “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!” * Psychological Manipulation is seen in TV commercials, political advertisements, movies, songs, and radio.

7. United States of Oceania? • If the government supports us spending our money on consumer items, aren't we showing our patriotism by obeying? • Fact: Under the Bush Administration, a $236 billion surplus was turned into a $422 billion deficit. • Fact: Even after the recent recession, the average CEO from AIG makes over $1,132 an hour! • “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”-George Orwell

8. Consumerism and Advertisement • The song called “Sleep Now in the Fire” by Rage Against The Machine, ridicules American greed and criticizes consumerism. • “The world is my expense…the cost of my desire… Jesus blessed me with his future… so I protect it with fire.”

9. Even today, war is often started by false pretenses in order to extract oil and other extremely valuable resources from another country. • “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” –Adolf Hitler • In the story, the Party takes all of the peoples’ displays of hatred and use it against their political enemies. • Many of these enemies are made up by the Party members so the people can keep expressing their hatred.

10. Who Can We Believe? • Throughout history, the government has maintained a strong hold on the news. In our country, we believe that we are an exception because of our right to Freedom of Speech. • But are we? • In the U.S, it seems as though the only news we are told is bad news. • In the story the Party uses news to lie to Oceania and turn their failures into successes, for instance the increase in chocolate rations.

11. Who Controls the Past… • In “Testify” by Rage Against the Machine, it uses the idea that, “Who controls the past, controls the future… Who controls the present, controls the past…” • NOW TESTIFY!!!

12. See The Difference? • The Party inducts children into the Junior Spies which brainwashes them to spy on their parents and report any disloyalty to the Party’s expectations. • They don’t let the people have pleasure, saying that the only reason for sex is to make children, who will become members of the Junior Spies • In the story, Orwell related the brainwashing of children into spies to the fact that the Hitler Youth (poster to the right) and other Soviet youth groups were designed for this purpose. • The Hitler Youth Poster is directly translated to, “All ten year olds into the Hitler Youth!”

13. In 1984 Orwell has the government watching and listening to people all the time. You never have any privacy and you cant show any facial expressions or emotions that would cause the government to suspect you of thought crime. • This could be comparable to the wire tapping done by the government to people they feel are suspicious or a threat to society. Also, the placing of public video cameras intrudes on peoples privacy and shows the controlling psychological nature of the government.

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16. +MyFace Today websites find our personal interests through profiling and later advertise these to naïve teens on social networks.

17. Two Movies. One Message. • Politicians manipulate our judgment by giving us two options—what is the right way and what is the wrong way. We often find in our simple and routine lives how easily the government would be able to simply “redefine” and correct the mistakes so that the need for rebellion is erased.

18. Security Via Fear The movie V for Vendetta parallels the idea of a “Big Brother”-like figure or leader. In the movie, Adam Sutler, the Chancellor of England manipulates the failures of his party and uses fear to control the citizens of England. The politicians in “V for Vendetta”, create a false war much like the Party in George Orwell’s “1984”. This false war is meant to both unify and control the public.

19. One Man’s “Hero” is Another Man’s Dictator • “Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” –George Orwell

20. " If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. “ - George Orwell

21. " If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. “ - George Orwell