1984 Project

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1984 Project

• Chelsea Preiner, Asha Thao, Shawn Halvorson, Zack
  Zippel
• Mrs. Thao
• Period 4/5

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Major Issue Psychological Manipulation
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Major Issue Psychological Manipulation

• The Party is constantly showing influential
  messages on the telescreen so people cant think
  for themselves.

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Major Issue Psychological Manipulation

• The Party is constantly showing influential
  things on the telescreen so people cant think
  for themselves.
• A telescreen in every room manipulates the
  Partys failures to brainwash the public into
  thinking they are actually successes.

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Major Issue Psychological Manipulation

• The Party is constantly showing influential
  things on the telescreen so people cant think
  for themselves.
• A telescreen in every room manipulates the
  Partys 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!

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Major Issue Psychological Manipulation

• The Party is constantly showing influential
  things on the telescreen so people cant think
  for themselves.
• A telescreen in every room manipulates the
  Partys 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.

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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 ones nose needs a
  constant struggle.-George Orwell

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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 expensethe cost of my desire
  Jesus blessed me with his future so I protect it
  with fire.

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• 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.

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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.

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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!!!

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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 Partys
  expectations.
• They dont 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!

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• 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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MyFace

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

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Two Movies. One Message.

• Politicians manipulate our judgment by giving us
  two optionswhat 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.

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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 Orwells
1984. This false war is meant to both unify and
control the public.
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One Mans Hero is Another Mans 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

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

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