1984 and Equilibrium - Battle for Individual Freedom

Duhamel 1 Sarah Duhamel Mrs. K. Venturini ENG4U Friday, June 7th, 2013 Battles for Individual Freedom Dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one (The Free Dictionary). Characteristics of a dystopian society are shown throughout George Orwell’s novel 1984, and in the 2002 film Equilibrium directed by Kirk Wimmer. Winston Smith, in 1984, is a lower ranked member of society, with an outer party member job. He is watched twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week through telescreens set up throughout Oceania. He always finds the Party’s omniscient leader staring back; also known as Big Brother. Winston becomes over-whelmed with all of the strict†¦show more content†¦Goldstein is the â€Å"enemy of people†. This is called the â€Å"two minutes of hate†. Winston secretly rebels against the Party by having a diary and by having secret meeting with Julia, a young lady who also works in the Ministry of Truth building for the Junior Anti-Sex League. During one of Winston and Julia’s meetings in the Golden Country, Winston says, â€Å"I have purity. I hate goodness. I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones†(Orwell 127). One might argue that the rules of sexual relations and marriage the Party holds its members related to purity, virtue and goodness, but this relation is in the actions only, not on the emotion behind them. â€Å"Have you done this before? Of course. Hundreds of times-well, scores of times, anyway.† (Orwell 131). To achieve this goal of eventually defeating the Party, both Winston and Julia agree that they are willing â€Å"to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate Duhamel 4 venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a childs face† (Orwell 273). These are all characteristics of dehumanization Winston has to face. Similarly in the 2002 film Equilibrium directed by Kirk Wimmer the main character John Preston portrayed by Christian Bale faces dehumanization just like Winston. Preston is head ofShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of George Orwell s Orwell 2993 Words   |  12 PagesSynopsis 1984 by George Orwell takes place in London, which is in a totalitarian country called Oceania and is about a man named Winston Smith who is an irrelevant member of the ruling party, or the â€Å"Party.† He is very frustrated about the Party’s great oppression because it controls everything from language to the nation’s history. Thoughts against the country, or â€Å"thoughtcrimes†, are considered illegal, one of the worst crimes, and punishable by death. The Party forces people to refrain from usingRead MoreGame Theory and Economic Analyst83847 Words   |  336 PagesÉditions Dalloz English edition: editorial matter and selection  © 2002 Christian Schmidt; individual chapters  © the contributors Routledge Advances in Game Theory Edited by Christian Schmidt 1 Game Theory and Economic Analysis A quiet revolution in economics Edited by Christian Schmidt  © 1995 Éditions Dalloz English edition: editorial matter and selection  © 2002 Christian Schmidt; individual chapters  © the contributors Game Theory and Economic Analysis A quiet revolution in economics Read MoreComplexity Theory as Applied to Nursing Essay4022 Words   |  17 PagesBenjamin Franklin in 1758 (Figure1) (Jones, P. 2000). Figure 1: Franklins Nursery Rhyme For want of a nail the shoe was lost For want of a shoe the horse was lost For want of a horse the rider was lost For want of a rider the battle was lost For want of a battle the Kingdom was lost Benjamin Franklin could be said to be the first chaos theorist. His rhyme illustrates how minor incidents can have enormous consequences. You might like to complete a similar rhyme that starts ‘For want of aRead MoreWitness by Peter Weir Notes12043 Words   |  49 Pagesof story telling * Mise en scene elementsconvey directors purpose * Themestolerance; good and evil; isolation; nature of love; conflict; traditionalism; individuality; tradition; reality amp; appearance; violence amp; nonviolence, justice, freedom amp; commitment. Camera angles: * High anglestaken from above to make a character look small, lost, inferior * Low anglestaken from underneath the character looking up towards them to make them look imposing, superior or threatening * PointRead MoreEssay on the Role of Women in Ancient Greece14417 Words   |  58 Pagesin contrast to the historical norm, the optimal (from the men’s perspective) division of labor among Spartans involved women in work that was not easily monitored by men. Second, the rights held by Spartan women may have been part of an unstable equilibrium, which contained the seeds of its own destruction. For helpful comments, we thank Yoram Barzel, Paul Cartledge, Beth Davenport, Dino Falaschetti, Nancy Folbre, Barbara Hanssen, Ron Johnson, Lea Kosnik, Francine Lafontaine, Dean Lueck, Sarah PomeroyRead MoreMahfuz7742 Words   |  31 Pagesorganizations. Drucker didn’t foment the managerial revolution alone. Fritz Roethlisberger, in his masterly 1937 summation of the Hawthorne experiments, described organizations as â€Å"social systems.† Management’s job, he stated, was to maintain their equilibrium. In the 1950s Drucker began to revive interest in the work of Mary Parker Follett, a largely forgotten figure from the 1920s whose ideas about management—â€Å"power with† rather than â€Å"power over,† â€Å"constructive confrontation,† and the pursuit ofRead MorePolitical Risk Management and Insurance: A Contextual Comparison12751 Words   |  51 Pagesit means a company or firm doing its business over a couple of countries usually spanning over different continents (Jensen, 2010) Companies: These are business organizations. A company can be formed by an association or a group of like minded individuals or at times other companies. The owners invest in the business by providing capital and they expect to earn profits from the capital they invested. In most laws worldwide, companies are considered legal persons and hence they are responsible forRead MoreStrategy Safari by Mintzberg71628 Words   |  287 Pagessmall but important cog nitive school has also developed that seeks to use the messages of cognitive psychology to enter the strategist s mind. Each of the four schools that follow has tried to open up the process of strategy formation beyond the individual, to other forces and other actors. For the learning school, the world is too complex to allow strategies to be developed all at once as clear plans or visions. Hence strategies must emerge in small steps, as an organization adapts, or learns.Read MoreThe Effect of Student Attitudes and Beliefs on Math ematics Education29432 Words   |  118 Pagesperform behaviour. Attitude is comprised of beliefs about the consequences of performing the behaviour multiplied by his or her valuation of these consequences. Subjective norm is seen as a combination of perceived expectations from relevant individual or groups along with intentions to comply with these expectations. In other words, â€Å"the persons perception that most people who are important to him or her think he should or should not perform the behaviour in question (Ajzen and Fishbein, 1980)Read MoreFrom Extravagant Movie Theatres to Lowly Bomba Houses: Investigating the Degeneration of City Spaces Along Claro M. Recto Avenue, Manila10891 Words   |  44 Pagescomplexity, characterized by dominant commercial, industrial and service occupations. These descriptions are congruent to Wirth’s (1938) sociological definition of a city, which is defined as a large, dense and permanent settlement of heterogenous individuals. Deriving from Dewey (1960), Boskoff argues that the city is at one e nd of the spectrum, otherwise known as the continuum of community types, opposite to that of the rural village, its traditional counterpart. With these characteristics, Boskoff