Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Totalitarianism in Nineteen-Eighty-Four and The Handmaids Tale
- Big Brother:
- "Big Brother is Watching you"
- Controls: History, physical and psychological
- Winston manipulates the past in the Ministry of Truth
- Dedicated to mistruth and doublespeak
- Rewriting Comerade Oglivy for Comerade Withers, and becomes an unperson
- Contextual satire to the soviet non-aggression pact 1939
- Nazi Germany invades the soviet union: 1941
- Psychological control
- Overwhelm the capacity for independent thought: "2+2=5"
- O'Brien: Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing"
- Similar to the cult of of Lenin and Stalin
- Control of information
- "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future"
- Constantly at war with eurasia/eastasia
- surveillance
- Children spies: Youth leagues