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English Assignment - Controlling the Citizens

   

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1ENGLISHIntroduction:Draft hook:In the book 1984, by George Orwell it is found that the political leaders used lies andnon-existent information in order to control the citizens. Propaganda was the main key pointthat the politicians used for controlling the citizens. Draft thesis statement:The author very convincingly discussed the problem of using propaganda forcontrolling the citizens by showing how it had changed the thinking of the people in 1984along with adding fear to the people’s lives.Draft topic sentence:Propaganda made the people lose their own power of thinking and made them thinkthat whatever actions or activities the party is performing is always right and cannot bequestioned. George Orwell depicted a dystopian world in the novel 1984. He depicted such a worldthat had no freedom, influenced citizens and people working for party. Orwell depicted that thepoliticians in 1984 used to suppress the thoughts of people and implemented strict laws and tookaway the freedom of the people (Dorosz pp 57). The slogan of the party as shown in the bookwas ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength’ clearly made the peopleconvinced that they are looking for something that they already have and the slogan seemed tochange the meaning of the truth that was under cover at that time. The slogan said that only war

2ENGLISHhad the ability to bring peace to a country and hence peace interrelates to war (Fox). The slogandescribed that when a slave is asking for freedom he must know that he already has one andbeing ignorant about certain things will help an individual to be strong (Mercado). The sloganinstalled the fear in the citizens that if their wishes vary from that of the government then it willnot be good for them. This can be made more precise by adding another slogan of the party,which said, ‘Big Brother is always watching you’. This slogan was presented in a poster form inevery places of the town and this made the people think that the Big Brother always watchedthem and this slogan even made the people feel safe and secured. Though the party makes thepeople believe that they have the security from the Big Brother but they did not understand that itwas totally because of the party that put the lives of the people in danger (Mercado). Draft topic sentence:Oceania seemed to be fully covered by cameras and people were always grounded backat that time.For monitoring, the people and setting their propaganda intact the party installed thecameras and with the help of that, they kept an eye on the people even the facial expressions ofthe citizens were judged (Mercado). The cameras were in 24 hrs surveillance charge but themembers of the party had the right to dysfunction those cameras for some time for their ownpurpose. The party used children to get update of what the citizens were doing. This can also beprécised with the help of a quote, “The children, on the other hand, were systematically turnedagainst their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations” (pp 76). The partymade the citizens unable to have any negative thoughts about the party at all. The people wereunable to think critically as the party controlled their thoughts. Wrong facial expressions led the

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