Totalitarianism in Nineteen-Eighty-Four and The Handmaids Tale

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A2 English Mind Map on Totalitarianism in Nineteen-Eighty-Four and The Handmaids Tale, created by Kieran Coyne on 20/03/2017.
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Totalitarianism in Nineteen-Eighty-Four and The Handmaids Tale
  1. Big Brother:
    1. "Big Brother is Watching you"
      1. Controls: History, physical and psychological
        1. Winston manipulates the past in the Ministry of Truth
          1. Dedicated to mistruth and doublespeak
            1. Rewriting Comerade Oglivy for Comerade Withers, and becomes an unperson
              1. Contextual satire to the soviet non-aggression pact 1939
                1. Nazi Germany invades the soviet union: 1941
              2. Psychological control
                1. Overwhelm the capacity for independent thought: "2+2=5"
                  1. O'Brien: Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing"
                2. Similar to the cult of of Lenin and Stalin
                  1. Control of information
                    1. "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future"
                    2. Constantly at war with eurasia/eastasia
                      1. surveillance
                        1. Children spies: Youth leagues
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