As humans whether we may realize it or not we may feel as though we Have some sort of power over others whether we are older brothers or sisters or someone in a higher ranking. Does this give us the privilege over others? In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, a world known for its strange and unjust government privilege comes with power. The question “How and why is a social group represented in a certain way” can be related to the inner party, the outer party, and the proles. The three social classes in 1984, the inner party being the opposite not having pertain to such strict rules having some freedoms from Big Brother, the outer party being the general public of the under the dictatorship of Big Brother, and the proles who are considered worthless Each social group in 1984, the inner party, the outer party, and the proles are represented differently pertaining to separate laws and rules As a boss is to an employee, the inner party would be considered higher in class status and the “rules” or the way the government runs do not necessarily restrict them. They were still supposed to love Big Brother as everyone else. An example of a parent trusting their older child vs. an infant who had to have baby monitors or are at constant watch is an analogy of the system. The inner party being like the older sibling who is not watched as much compared to an infant child who is. The inner party has the option to turn off their telescreens whenever they please and not be watched or observed by the totalitarian government. In this totalitarian government this is a major difference between the reaming social groups. As the inner party lives in their luxurious homes in privacy without being seen by the telescreeens while the outer par... ... middle of paper ... ...s can be compared to an American society or society in general as social standards or classes. Those who seem to hold a higher power whether the person is a police man the president or famous, we tend to make them above the law, or they seem to be able to bend the rules a little but more. An inner party member in this society would be considered those things with a more luxurious life and not in much fear of authority. An outer party member may seem to be considered generic social groups, so middle maybe even lower class. They are expected to follow all of the rules and laws as well as having an average lifestyle. Finally the proles could be seen as the homeless etc. They are apart of society but do not technically contribute as well as living their lives as they please. These social classes can be compared to George Orwell’s 1984 not as extreme but as an example.
The characters in ‘An Inspector Calls’ are mainly upper-middle class (Mr and Mrs Birling, Gerald, Sheila, Eric), but the Inspector is middle class and Eva Smith is working class. Most of the characters in ‘An Inspector Calls’ have varied opinions about social classes, but there are mainly two sides. The first main opinion is that the upper-middle class are the most important and the lower working classes are not important and that it doesn’t matter what happens to them (this is the view of Mr and Mrs Birling and Gerald). For example Sheila and Mrs Birling need to be protected from the horrid things such as Eva Smith’s death because they are upper-middle class, whilst Eva Smith doesn’t need to be protected from horrid things in life because she is working class. The other opinion is that although they are working class, they should still be treated fairly even if they are different classes and that Eva Smith’s death is very tragic even if she wasn’t upper class (this is Eric, Sheila and The Inspector’s...
Though there was not much difference in the sizes of three of the classes, there were still large differences in the incomes of these classes. From the class breakdown, you can see how the Nazi party could be so successful. With the classes set, you then begin to see the emergence of the political parties.
The Party and its leader Big Brother play the role of authority in 1984. The Party is always watching the citizens of the Republic of Oceania. This is exemplified in the fact that the government has telescreens through which they can watch you wherever you are set up almost everywhere. Even in the countryside where there are no telescreens, the Party can monitor its citizens through hidden microphones disguised as flowers. The Thought Police are capable of spying on your thoughts at anytime, and can arrest or even kill you on a whim. Not only does the Thought Police find and hunt down felons, but it also scares others into being good citizens. The Party strives to eliminate more and more words from people’s vocabularies. Thus, the Party can destroy any possibilities of revolutions and conspiracies against itself. Its ultimate goal is to reduce the language to only one word, eliminating thought of any kind. The Party makes people believe that it is good and right in its actions through the Ministry of Truth and through the slogans printed on the Ministry of Truth:...
If you have ever read the book 1984 by George Orwell, then an interesting topic may have crossed your mind. The way the classes of people break down can be quite similar, and very different at times. In the United States, we have classes like the lower class, the working class, and the middle class. In 1984, there were such classes as the Proles, the Outer Party, and the Inner Party. The way the classes are broken down in 1984 reminds me a little bit of my old history class. When I studied medieval times and the classes back then were broken down into the nobles, the bourgeois, and the serfs.
thought. The middle working class, or the “regular'; party, did all the work that the inner party wanted to be done, in order to keep the population, including themselves, in control of everyone. The third, and lowest, class is the proles. The party does not even watch or
In the reading “Class, Status, Party,” by Max Weber, Weber illustrates how the three subjects of class, status, and party all intertwine and intersect one another. Weber pointed out that class, status, and party all have a direct link to power and the social order which exists within a society. Lastly, author, Weber, tended to categorize the three subjects by repeatedly using the ideas of power and honor. Weber directly stated that classes, status groups, and parties are all based upon the distribution of power in a community.
The Party is a totalitarian government. Neither the Outer Party nor the proles (proletariat) have any influence on the direction of their country or the rules that govern their lives. The Inner Party manipulates the media and infiltrates citizens' private lives to gain complete control over every aspect of human existence, including love and sex. When the propaganda, deprivation, and rigid guidelines
The idea behind Communism is simple, to share all of the resources gained by the working class amongst the working class. The concept is exemplar in terms of fairness, but is notably difficult to establish without some backwater form of corruption, as with Stalin and the Soviet Union. It has become the most difficult task presented to possible Communist states. In George Orwell’s 1984 it is painfully obvious to both Winston and the reader that the classes and social aspects of Big Brother have been completely twisted and corrupted to the core.
The Inner Party's power to create an artificial reality is also largely due to their understanding of the underlying principles of human psychology. Through artificial scarcity, which was created by the constant warfare, the productivity of workers was used to create goods such as the floating fortress instead of goods which could actually raise the standard of living thus causing a shortage in the amounts of boots and coats available. Therefore, the people were more worried about keeping warm and having enough food rather than thinking about their lives or the political system. This directly relates to Maslow's theory on human behavior where human needs are ranked in a six level hierarchy where food and shelter come first and political thought comes only at the fifth and sixth levels. Finally
The Inner Party resembled a group of aristocrats. They ruled the country and all the people in it. They made up a figurehead for themselves, Big Brother, who was almost like a god. Everyone worshiped him because they made it look like he was the one who did everything that was good. The members of the Inner Party had complete and undoubted success because they achieved and maintained their goal, which was to become the most powerful people in the country and stay that way. They did many things to achieve this, including creating an imaginary evil force, known as the Brotherhood, which planned to overthrow them. They used this “Brotherhood'; to blame all the bad things on and make Big Brother (and through him, themselves) look good by fighting against this “evil force';. The Inner Party was not happy with only physical obedience, they wanted complete obedience, including the human mind. They didn’t want people to think for themselves, because then they might plot to overthrow the Inner Party. They controlled the general populations’ minds by involving them in many verbal demonstrations, such as hate week, which downplayed the Brotherhood and made Big Brother look good. They also had telescreens in every building that allowed them to spy on the people and make sure that they didn’t do anything that might be harmful to their control. When they found someone who was a traitor, and wanted to disobey or overthrow Big Brother, they didn’t just punish them, they converted them:
Invasion of privacy is shown in the “Youth League”. Children who are young and persuading are being brainwashed into believing every single word Big Brother has to say. They are told to spy on their own family to assure their loyalty to the party. While the inner party is busy making propaganda and re-writing history, the proles are left like animals. Free.
Usually an upper class member of a communal society holds a status that is above those of the lower classes and is beyond their laws.
Every part of life is regimented and controlled, but the only crime is ‘thought crime’: independent thinking and individualism. Big Brother is the figurehead of the Inner Party, and throughout the book, it is heavily implied that he may not really exist. The people are divided into Inner Party members, who control the government, Outer Party members, who make up the middle class, and Proletarians, or Proles, who make up the uneducated lower class. He utilizes strong but vague descriptions of the world around Winston to hint at the state of the world without directly saying it. He describes a bright cold day, which seems to perfectly depict the world's bleak state in a sort of indirect way (Orwell, 1948).
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic era, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.” (Orwell, 201) From the ancient and primitive tribes of our ancestors to the blue-collar and white-collar jobs within cities, the human race has always divided itself into clear groups of social classes. Sometimes, the distinction is placed to forcibly separate the elite from the workers, while others are formed through a separation of class interests. Over time, writers have distinguished a pattern common within most societies. Most societies, from the utmost primal to the most advanced, have congregated themselves into three classes of people. These societal classes are exemplified
The members of theses higher levels are seen as groups of people that commonly interact with each other and in take each other’s opinions and concerns into account when formulating a decision. They are seen as a whole as the “upper class.” They are all a part of this social class and because of this treat people of diverse social classes differently. The people of the upper class gain an understanding of what they have in similarity to each other and use their stature to close ranks against outsiders, or people of different social