Monday, March 24, 2008

Part 3 Just like the Nazis



"The Nazis, and the Soviets—it has learned how to eliminate its enemies without making martyrs of them" Reading this novel brings back the time in history when people like Hitler and the soviets turned to torture to get the ultimate power they needed. It's sickening for in order to get power they have to force and torture people. The resemblance to the time of the Holocaust and the 1900's is quite similar to the world of 1984.

Instead of only the Jews being tortured, everyone in 1984 is being tortured in one way or another. The Party and the Nazis both have one common goal in mind, limitless POWER. The ironic thing in 1984 about the fact that documents and pictures were being altered to change the past to make the new future is stuff that actually happened in the 1900's. Anyone who opposed the government were exiled or taken to prison. Exactly like in 1984 but with here it's even bigger extremes as you can't even think bad thoughts or the "thought police" will get you. Jews used to be tortured so harshly and their minds were brainwashed to accept the fact that they weren't good enough. Winston was forced to accept that his mind which was filled with love, Julia, his mother, and laughter was wrong and was definitely not good enough. His mind was to be filled with only the love of Big Brother and nothing else.

Big Brother and old political leaders of history act very similar. The greed for power and their way of getting it is in sync. The things that people like Hitler did to get his ultimate power was ridiculous which is why we had World War 2. With 1984 "War IS peace" and surly if someone like Hitler had the advance technology of telescreens everyehre, "Thought Police" and the Ministries he would have done the exact same thing as Big Brother.

2 comments:

RamonK said...
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RamonK said...

+ Comparing between the Party and the Nazi's is well described
+ Intro and Conclusion are strong
- Grammatical errors