Texts (not ordered)

Main Dystopia Ideas

• The author’s expression and spin of the fears of the time to warn us what happens if…
• Surpression and control of the individuals and therefore the population to conform with the “Party” (the body in power) for example
• Totalitarian goverment
  
  Essay idea
  How Language influences thought and then how Thought influences language

Nineteen eighty-four
Uses language, “Newspeak”, to “Narrow the range of thought” therefore limiting there thought making them unable “have original thoughts”
Oceania Ministry of Truth alters the past so the citizens have “No standards of comparison” is another form of control.
This is a common theme in dystopias where the state in order to control the population will try to control their thoughts.
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Big brother poster, telescreen and thought police are surveillance which places the individual under the constant watch of the eye and is how they monitor there actions. This forces them to conform with the state’s view and limits the ability for them to communicate with others about different ideas that could speak out against the state.
Quotations
Newspeak
“We’re destroying words, hundreds of them a day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone”
“The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought”
“Thoughtcrime will become literally impossible because there will be no words to express it”
“Mental training undergone in childhood and grouping itself with Newspeak words, crimestop, black-white and doublethink makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatsoever”
Altering History
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“When memory failed and written records were falsified—… the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted because there did not exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
“The Party member… tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past… because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors “
“Whatever happened you vanished and nor you or your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history”
General Control
“Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious”
“The hate continued exactly as before, but the target had been changed.”
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly”
“A party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the thought police”
“Power is tearing human minds into pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of our own choosing”
“Men are infinity malleable”

Minority Report
The focus of the visuals
Clean, sanatised
MInority report also tries to make itself look like a Utopia about having a perfect world with no murder, but as we dive deeper we can clearly see how imperfect this society is which is like many other dystopia texts where the society tries to create this perfect society.
Controls and suppresses the individual by eliminating the choice of being good or bad. This is also a form of mind control as the population is forced to make or not make certain decisions. This like nineteen eighty-four narrows the range of there thought.
Like nineteen eighty-four the people in minority report are almost always viewed and tracked by the state by iris scanners (symbolism of eye with).
This then brings up the dilemma that if an individual cannot choose between good or bad does that mean there are any good individuals
There is also propaganda used to try and show how good precrime is such as statistics which as we know aren’t a reliable source as there many ways to skew them to a certain view.


Bleech bypass process filter used throughout the film
Police with so much tech that it strips their humanity, this reflects the society.
Tech screens on their masks mean that controls what they can see.
Clean for in public places but decay in the citizen’s residence. This shows the underbelly of the utopia.
Bleech light
Bird’s eye view putting us in the position of the state showing us the invasion of privacy. Broken glass shows us the destruction of it
Breaking up a agruement shows that the state doesn’t care and that they have total control showing there control as they cant even stop their augrement
Noone resists showing its normal
Rat showing more evidence of decay


Quotations
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”
“If there’s a flaw, its human. It always is”
“Remember the eyes, John. The eyes of the nation are on us”
Occasionally, the pre-cogs disagree” (Minority Reports – are deleted instantly – “no-one wants to base a justice system on uncertainty” You have a choice, you can walk away” fate or free will

Clockwork Orange
The younger population using the Russian Slavic language blend
Controls and suppresses the individual by eliminating the choice of being good or bad.
Quotations

Politics of the English language.

Quotations
Statements with some meaning
“Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.“
“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language.”
“It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts“
“If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration:”
“The first is staleness of imagery; the other is lack of precision. The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else,“
“As I have tried to show, modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.“
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible[…] atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face,