Walle and 1984 Themes: A warning
By reading the works of affluent authors who are aware of where government order and technology may lead, a reader can ascertain this knowledge as a warning. George Orwell, the author of
1984 and Andrew Stanton, christian film director of the movie Walle, do well in encouraging readers to expect the unexpected. The two works also share many corresponding themes. George Orwell, formerly known as Eric Blair, writes about a totalitarian government that controls everyone. In Orwells's prediction of 1984, the government controls history, psychologically manipulates, and uses propaganda to control people's minds (1984). In Walle, dependent overweight individuals evacuate earth aboard an aircraft called the Axiom because earth has been destroyed by an over accumulation of waste. Robotic technology is used for everything by the humans. Buy n Large controls the axiom while waiting for earth to be inhabitable again (Walle).
The theme of technology in Walle can relate to today's approach of technology takeover. Today's world involves the use of technology taking place of humans in factories. About 320,000 industrial robots have been sold in the last two years. Employment is going down while productivity is continuing to increase (Rotman). Robots such as Burn-E, carry out everyday tasks that a worker today would do by hard work. Technology physically controls the people in Walle. The hoover chairs transported the humans everywhere and made them overweight (Walle). In 1984, Winston, the main character is controlled by the television screens throughout the whole city. The ruling party also uses television screens to monitor and wake the people every morning with exercise requirements (1984). If peo...
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...ir advantage. Franchises such as Walmart, manipulate product advertising and put items in specific places to increase chance of sales.
In Walle, Stanton incorporates at the end of the movie that it has taken a technology takeover to refurbish earth. Sometime in the near future may be a period where advanced technology leads to disaster or a positive turning point. One can learn from Walle that it is important to question things and to act for his/herself. It can be said that if others do not question, then they are not living. Stanton supports questioning life through the character, Captain B. McCrea, when McCrea says he wants to live and not survive (Walle). If America does not wake up to a shifting totalitarian government and keep the principles in which America was founded alive, Orwell's prediction of the future may become far more of a reality.
The film Wall-e takes place in the future after mankind has abandoned Earth due to its accumulation of garbage from the all-powerful superstore Buy N Large. Wall-E, the Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class robot, was sent along with other robots to rid Earth of waste and create a livable condition once again. Wall-e appears to be the only robot left as he has evolved to fix himself when a part goes wrong. His hobbies include collecting human belongings that interest him such as lighters, silverware, bowling pins and other odd objects that humans abandoned on Earth (00:05:55). His favorite collectable is the 1969 film Hello, Dolly! When Wall-e watches this film the viewer can see past Wall-e’s circuits and wheels as if he was programmed to have a heart. He shows true emotions when he admires the couple’s affection as if he would like that too (00:07:00). His spirits are lightened when he meets Eve, a modern day robot sent to find evidence of life on Earth (00:22:28). Through Eve the viewe...
Many dangers can arise in civilization. In George Orwell’s book, 1984, the author outlines some of dangers to be aware of in the future. He describes a dystopian society in which all of the simple rights we take for granted are non-existent. They’re many different ways that he portrays danger to society in his book. There's a countless amount of them scattered throughout the book warning people of dangers to their way of life, and society. Today there are increasingly more, and more dangers to our civilization, and our way of life. These dangers can led to the ultimate downfall to our way of life, if we don’t
... way about the world I live in, and who is controlling it. I loved how the use of such brutal twists created a sense of realism, turning a book with an extremely fictitious story, into what the world may look like in the near future. But a part of me wished I had never read it. Books like these cause me to over-think, to over analyse the world around me. Ever since I picked up 1984 I have constantly thought “I wonder what the government is doing now? Are they working to better our society or finding ways to better control it?” A part of me wishes I could go back in time and warn myself that this book will cause me to be slightly paranoid for a couple of weeks. However, I’m glad I read 1984. It is a marvellously constructed text that had left me asking questions and has altered my perception about the capacity for betrayal by governments and even individual citizens.
David R. Morrow stated in his article, When Technologies Makes Good People Do Bad Things: Another Argument Against the Value-Neutrality of Technologies, “the use or invention of technology is not wrong it is the users who have ‘‘vicious’’ or condemnable preferences that will affect the outcome.” Orwell used technology in a way that many people of that time would never have imagined possible and created a fear of the future for his readers. How could a man, who was unaware of what the future would hold, be so acute and on point with how the world would be today? In his last interview Orwell said, “Always there will be the intoxication of power and always and every moment there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on the enemy who is helpless.” Orwell tried to warn people not of the technology but of the danger technology might cause in the future if it landed in the wrong hands. In this paper, I will be exploring how the world of technology mimics that of Winston’s world and how “privacy” has lost its meaning due to technology just like in 1984 but the biggest issue I will research is why do we allow it the government to monitor our
Totalitarian is a form of government where the government has complete control of their citizens' lives. This usually includes, as it did in 1984, control of who they marry, their sex lives, when and what they eat, and when and how much they exercise along with many other things. In a totalitarian government the citizens have no freedom what-so-ever. Big Brother would often use Thought Police to monitor peoples thoughts to make sure they did not commit thought crimes (Nineteen Eighty-four). However, the Thought Police aspect of the movie will probably never occur in real life, there are similar cases. In Cuba, the government has put in people in various neighborhoods that are supposed to report to the government anyone they hear or suspect of bad-mouthing the government or trying to start a rebellion (Vallandares). However, Wall-e shows a world controlled by consumerism instead of one controlled by a totalitarian government. Consumerism is when the people of a country are encouraged to spend a lot of money on goods and services. In the movie Wall-e the company B 'n' L ended up becoming so large due to consumerism that they
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In summary, both the article and the novel critique the public’s reliance on technology. This topic is relevant today because Feed because it may be how frightening the future society may look like.
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By looking at 1984, one can see that George Orwell included the themes of power, modernization, and control because the government uses technology to their advantage to control their own people. 1984 went on to be one of the most quoted books of all time and was a top seller internationally. Scaring many people away from communism, this was a perfect at this time due to the red scare going on around the same time. Orwell couldn’t have expressed the use of technology and the power of the government in a better way than he did in
Even though many of Orwell’s ideas in his novel 1984 seemed completely fictional, several of the concepts throughout his book have a common link to today’s society. For instance in the same way telescreens monitor people every second of their li...
This essay is about a story named “1984”, written by George Orwell. Winston Smith Is living in a dystopia society were everyone is being monitored and controlled by their superior big bother. Winston Smith is rebelling against Big brother. The society Winston is living in is, is somewhat similar to the word we live in today. The government spy on their people and invade their privacy in ways that big brother does.
George Orwell, author of “1984,” portrays a dystopian nation concentrated on despair to warn his readers of Communist governments. Michael Radford, director and screen writer, film adaptation of the fiction story successfully captures the cinematography Orwell portrayed to the reader throughout the three sections of his novel. The industry influence commercialized minuscule topics like sexual affairs to increase the number of viewers and lessens the true horrors illustrated by Orwell.
...t the author wants. If we simply accept things the way they are, they will inevitably get worse, so through literature Orwell and Atwood have created a call to action.
In society today for the most part, people are free to speak freely, connect with friends and family and stay in touch with what’s happening in everywhere. It’s not unusual think that everyone enjoys the same rights and privileges but in reality this is not so; in some parts of the world speaking one’s mind could result in death, broadcast agencies are forced to have their reports approved and leaders strategize wars and alliances like seasoned chess players. This might all sound very disheartening but is in fact tame compared to the literacy works and ideas conjured up by English author George Orwell in his novel 1984 which depicts fictional life under the cruel and all seeing “Big Brother” regime of futuristic London. During his lifetime growing up with the examples of a Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and later through his military experiences, Orwell witnessed firsthand how easily people could be manipulated and the truth become twisted. It is for this reason that George Orwell’s novel 1984 is an important work of literature because it discusses timeless themes like democracy, censorship, and politics which have all remained highly debated topics in society today.
The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists… and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class… had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government. (Orwell, 281)