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5 page history paper. MLA format. Based off George Orwells novel "1984", exploring the depiction of totalitarian arts of power. Should focus on two themes, analyzing the themes. Compare also to Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, material on executions under queen Elizabeth, modernity, and the "power of the powerless". Can also use the pictures included to help with analysis. Also need a works cited page 

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Images for Final Assignment “The public execution is to be understood not only as a judicial, but also as a political ritual. It belongs, even in minor cases, to the ceremonies by which power is manifested” --Michel Foucault Storming the Winter Palace: Re-enactment Petrograd, 1920 Representing the Enemy Religion, the Opium of the Masses Capital Stalin as “the sacred center of the Soviet cosmos” (Jan Plamper) Fedor Shurpin, “Morning of Our Motherland”, 1948-9 Govorkov, “Stalin in the Kremlin Cares about Each One of Us” (1940) --1917: the Bolsheviks are “dark and evil” --Late 1920s: “I have unconsciously become a socialist” --October 1928: “I am watching what Russia, the Revolution, ‘Soviet Power’, etc. mean”; “I see the face of the people who hold in their hands the red banner” --1930: “I listened to the roaring of thousands of voices and felt my union with them. This made my happy” --May 1, 1931: “Yesterday—an evening meeting in the barracks. Today—the demonstration. Exhaustion hampers my feelings of joy. But more important is the sense of merging with everybody who celebrated this day. All of us…all the…institutes, the workers’ faculties and schools, all the workers, all the Red Army soldiers, all of us—were one. We all marched together—with the same songs and thoughts. This time I did not see the ‘face of the people’, because I myself was a part of it, I was a drop in the sea, I was forming the ‘1st of May’, and wasn’t just an onlooker.” Diary of Zinaida Denisevskaya PRINCIPLES OF SOCIALIST REALISM 1. 2. 3. 4. Art had to be directed towards the Proletariat and be relevant and comprehensible to them. Art had to support the goals of the Soviet State and Communist Party. Art should focus on ordinary, everyday life. Art should be realistic not experimental. Samizdat edition published by Havel’s samizdat publishing house, 1978 Living within the lie They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system. In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life. Living in truth He has said [by this act] that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. Every free expression of life indirectly threatens the post-totalitarian system politically, including forms of expression to which, in other social systems, no one would attribute any potential political significance.
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Themes of 1984
George Orwell in 1949 wrote the dystopian novel 1984 which identifies a society that is
ruled by an iron hand and with the masses being brainwashed into supporting every notion
portrayed to them. The plot of the story takes place in a state known as Oceana that is ruled by
one party that persecutes individualism and crushes those who hold any opinion different from
that of the party (Orwell, 18). The tyranny of the state is manifested by the party leader known as
the Big Brother, an omnipresent figure in the lives of the people and who has never been seen
about his presence is felt in all corners of the society. The party enforces its rules on all sectors of
the society defines what the people can and cannot do (Orwell, 44). They decide the associations
that the people can make. The Party is an example of what government can do to strife the rights
of the people to rule without limitations. 1984 identifies the role that the privileged elite play in
maintaining control and in ruling the people (Orwell, 28). Propaganda influences the people and
rules them by fear to supports the Party and its actions. The Party controls the flow of
information in the state and determines which information is accessed by the people. Lies are
twisted, and articles are rewritten to suits the needs of the Party and to make all their failures and
inadequacies appear as successes. The manipulation of the people and the media to support the
Party identifies the extent utilitarian governments are willing to go to maintain control of the
state and its resources with the use of every physical and psychological weapon at their disposal
(Orwell, 88). 1984 identifies two main themes that flow throughout the story and that is the

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theme of totalitarianism and psychological manipulation. these two themes echo out through the
story, and parallel can be drawn between the plot and real life incidents of Nazi Germany, Soviet
Russia, executions under Queen Elizabeth I, power and the powerless an...


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