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Patriotic Propoganda
Summary and Review of George Orwell's 1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four is quite arguably George Orwell's greatest novel, completed just before he passed away, which describes his disturbing predictions of what may come in haunting detail. This futuristic narration, published in 1949, discloses a to the masses about the results of unrestrained authoritarian control.
Winston Smith is an average Party member in Airstrip One, the area formerly identified as London.The Party watches the citizens of Oceania everywhere - their abodes, workplaces, and apartment buildings - via telescreens enclosed in every wall. The small television style gadgets allow the Party to air propoganda 24 hours a day, while at the same time letting the thought police to see and listen to everything within the telescreen's range.. If a citizen of Oceania lets slip an nontraditional reply in a discussion, acts differently than is required or appears to be to be less-than-fanatical with patriotic obedience to the demands of the Party – they are likely to receive a visit from the thought police and be vaporised from the earth.
Among Winston's responsibilities at his work in the Ministry of Truth – or ‘Minitrue,' in newspeak (the mutilated and disturbed version of English which the Party is working on) - is removing all mentions of a person's name after they are taken by the thought police. Additionally, he edits newsprints in which prominent Party members made predictions which later proved to be false, lowers estimates of output levels to make it appear as if everything is in surplus, and gets rid of or records which are enthusiastic about or promote untraditional or other liberal behaviour.
The image Orwell describes of the global community is equally perturbing. He reports a world in which only 3 states remain, in a state of steadfast warfare with each other. The war they fight is nontraditional in its role as well - it is fought only as a way of destroying manufactured goods, which consequently produces a need for work allowing the authorities to assert control over its population. Orwell tells the reader that the war lives on primarily as an emotional justification for such destruction, as just throwing out or burning up the goods renders a similar situation but leaves the people less contented.
1984 is a cautionary tale to everyone concerning the world a dictatorial outlook is likely to create. Orwell's illustration of a fascist political ruling will send shudders up the backbone and divulge instants of devastating verity which can create in the audience feel as though they are combing through a history book or a Nostradamus prediction as opposed to a story. The fact that George Orwell completed what many in his audience claim to be his most brilliant piece just before his demise gives it a notion of predictive mysticism which will leave the reader craving more after the story is done.
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What is a good campaign with a slogan & using propoganda techniques for obama?
I have to make a poster for the 2008 campaign for Obama. It needs to include a slogan and it needs to use 2 propaganda techniques. What is a good creative slogan? or any good ideas?
Here are the techniques:
labeling: name calling
transfer: patriotic symbols
Glittering generality: vague or broad statements containing little substance
plain folks: "one of the common people"
card stacking: quotes of statistics that support & show only one side
testimonial: a hollywood actor or famous singer endorses candidate
How about "U2 thinks Republicans are penny pinching gun lovers"?
North Korean Patriotic/Propaganda Music Video (English Subtitle)