... a positive effect towards combating government oppression and the means utilised to do so. I first created a picture of the communication system with our government by looking at a well-known example. This fictional example, George Orwells 1984, describes the relationship between citizens and their totalitarian government in a dystopian setting. My research shows how close this actually comes to our reality. Next I looked at ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 24
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of social equality and sharing. Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the archives of human history. Only once in the passing of human fictional literature has the sensitive horror of this regime been displayed once, much less twice. Only one man has the insight and the genius to portray this regime for what it ... ...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... decide whether the majority wishes to see them back in control or believes that new leadership will be an asset to the country. Leadership is important in reality and in fictional worlds as it dictates the situations the rest of society finds itself in. Society is somewhat controlled by the leadership of a country and is often mirrored by the literature of ... ...

• Word Count: 2604
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... decide whether the majority wishes to see them back in control or believes that new leadership will be an asset to the country. Leadership is important in reality and in fictional worlds as it dictates the situations the rest of society finds itself in. Society is somewhat controlled by the leadership of a country and is often mirrored by the literature of ... ...

• Word Count: 2604
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The Play Crucible is a fictional re-call of events in the American history surrounding the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century which also provide the metaphor for Miller's parable of the Mc Carthy trials ... ...

• Word Count: 2628
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• Grade Level: High School

... : "A dystopia is any society considered to be undesirable, for any of a number of reasons. The term was coined as a converse to a Utopia, and is most usually used to refer to a fictional (often near-future) society where current social trends are taken to nightmarish extremes. [ ] Often, the difference between a Utopia and a Dystopia is in the author's point of view. [ ] Dystopias are frequently ... ...

• Word Count: 5247
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... is still a free Outer Party member. The Party severely restricts Winston's ability to react spontaneously through constant monitoring via telescreens and through the erosion of truth. As the treatise of fictional revolutionary Emmanuel Goldstein stated, "With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to ... ...

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... is still a free Outer Party member. The Party severely restricts Winston's ability to react spontaneously through constant monitoring via telescreens and through the erosion of truth. As the treatise of fictional revolutionary Emmanuel Goldstein stated, "With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to ... ...

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Comparing the ways in which the two authors express the Themes of Authority, Power, Repression and Rebellion. The Play Crucible is a fictional re-call of events in the American history surrounding the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century which also provide the metaphor for Miller's parable of the Mc Carthy trials ... ...

• Word Count: 2648
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School