... same way as an effective deterrent in punishing those who spoke out against the party. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini each had their own secret police. Hitler's were called storm troopers (SA), used to arrange violence to eliminate Hitler's enemies. Stalin used the GPU (the new ... to make enemies of the state give false confessions of crimes against the state or party, and consequently condemned to prison or death. Mussolini's secret police were called the Fasci, who took an oath of allegiance to him, and used the same tactics as Hitler and Stalin in silencing their enemies ... to pres...

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... from Eton at age eighteen, and rather unexpectedly, was to spend the next five years (1922-27) in Burma as an officer of the Indian Imperial Police. In this year, 1945, Orwell's wife died as the result of a minor operation. He attributed her death to lowered physical resistance due to the war ... . Winston is sick of the Party's rigid control over his life and world, and begins trying to rebel against the Party--writing defiant thoughts in a secret diary and starting an illegal affair with Julia. Julia a beautiful dark-haired girl working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Trut...

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... relationship with a female named Julia (Hall 340). Unlike the other characters, Smith is unique in that he defies the party even though we know that he will not escape the secret police, and after he is caught we see him undergoing "a dreadful metamorphosis which burns out his human essence, leaving him a wreck who can go on living only by becoming one of ... "them" (Hall 340). Thus, Smith is "forced" to capitulate by the secret police. Many others also have no choice but to obey the ways and rules of society, for if they refuse, the totalitarians use "a methodology of terror which enab...

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... put in charge of India while it was part of the British empire. After graduating from a British public school, to which he went with a scholarship, he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He disliked his profession and it only increased his hatred for imperialism. After that he spent several years in Paris and London, doing whatever he could to make ... to modernize Russia's agriculture and industry. Anyone who stood in his way was disposed of. By 1929 Stalin had complete control of the government and was backed by the Russian secret police, the KGB. Stalin turned against his col...

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... would cause a person to be fearful. An example of intimidation in the novel is the Thought Police. The Thought Police are the secret police of Oceania. It is their job to find and punish thought crime and thought-criminals. The Thought Police, "plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they ... watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to" (Orwell 5). The Thought Police ... to maintain control in society. The population lives in fear because they are scared of the consequences that will occur if ...

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... making his own free will choices. Similarly in 1984, Winston Smith, the hero, undergoes his own personal rebellion towards the government, beginning with writing in a secret diary and ending by declaring that he will bring down the state, "His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals- ... they are used-up, old raggedy dolls. The violent acts these hoodlums perform daily are horrendous. Although they put great harm upon their victims, the police also control the juvenile gangs with the same type of brutality that the gangs use. These officers will k...

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... , Donald) A Brave New World is Huxley's expression if fear that mankind will create a utopia by the way of foregoing all that makes life worthwhile. Orwell's book brings more on "secret police" (the Thought Police), just like those in Germany during World War II. Winston gets transported to room 101, while on the other hand Bernard is transferred to an uncomfortable location. Both books ... "telescreens," but never in real life. Winston illegally purchases a diary in which to write his criminal thoughts, and becomes fixated on a powerful Party member named O"Brien, whom Winston believes ...

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... Julia go to his house to meet with him. O'Brien gives them a treasonable book to read. Soon after it was given to them the Thought Police caught them. Leading to them unable to see each other again. O'Brien becomes Winston's rehabilitator and torturer for the next 9 months. O'Brien tortures ... pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out...It is intolerable that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be." The party can't understand his disbelief, and believes that they must change his thoughts through torture and brainwa...

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... of the animals also play certain parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those who fled Russia), and Napoleons three vicious dogs as the secret police of Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). The statement also describes "the psychological foundation of revolution, its processes and the irony of displacement". When referring to Animal Farm, the psychological foundation refers to ... amended throughout the story, for example, the 6th commandment is secretly changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without reason" during the first slaughtering of those anima...

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... animals also play certain parts in the parallel; Boxer as the working class, Molly as White Russia (those who fled Russia), and Napoleon's three vicious dogs are characters of the secret police of Joseph Stalin (Napoleon). The statement also describes "the psychological foundation of revolution, its processes and the irony of displacement". When referring to Animal Farm, the psychological foundation refers to ... amended throughout the story, for example, the 6th commandment is secretly changed to "No animal shall kill any other animal without reason" during the first slaughtering of th...

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... in Writing. He wrote for many magazines and was a business manager of one of the magazine's. The most significant decisions in his life was to become a part of the imperial police in Burman, instead of going to a University. There watching the subjugated people, made Orwell view societies as the oppressed and the oppressor. " Socialism Orwell says in The Road to Wigan ... leader on the telescreen named O"Brien with whom he thought that might "alos stand critic to the regime," of at least they had a bond between them. Winston believed O"Brien was a secret member of the Brotherhood; the g...

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... of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power. But a major difference between the two is that, whereas in 1984 control is maintained by constant government surveillance, secret police, and torture, power, in Brave New World is maintained through technological interventions that start before birth and last until death, and that actually change what people want. Winston Smith hates ... ...

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