Actual Essay- Elimination of Relationships

Question 1

Part 1

In both texts, human connections are shown to diminish as..

Answer 1

In both texts, human connections are shown to diminish as a result of a controlled and survellied regime however, only in 1984 does it also break the family structure.

Funder details that inside the German democratic republic (GDR) there were “173,00 informers”, most of which chose to inform to “feel they had it over other people.”

The methods of ‘telephone tapping’ and ‘shadow surveillance’ sought to recruit only the most ‘honest, and trustworthy’.

This illustrates that constant monitoring of citizens catalyses betrayal of human relationships, as people are willing to sacrifice their morality in order to not be perceived as a threat.

Question 2

Part 2

Herr Christian’s best friend for example informs..

Answer 2

Herr Christian’s best friend for example informs on him to the Stasi as he has “an overdeveloped sense of loyalty.” He is willing to betray on his most loving relationships in order to prove he is loyal and does not need monitoring.

This encapsulates Funder’s perception of surveillance as an inhumane mean of control as it abolishes human connections, which are a quintessential part of humanity . FRAU PAUL AND TORSTEN?

Question 3

Part 3

Orwell paints a similarly dark and..

Answer 3

Orwell paints a similarly dark and pessimistic picture of the eradication of meaningful friendships in a controlled and surveilled totalitarian world however he darkens the image further by suggesting that it damage family relationships.

In Oceania it was “almost normal for people to be frightened of their own children.”

The Party manipulates the compliance of children to the point in which they inform on their own parents to please the Party as evident by Parsons’ daughter informing on him.

Question 4

Part 4

This diminishment of the love held between..

Answer 4

This diminishment of the love held between parents and their children, encapsulates the inhumanity of pressuring children to be informers for the regime.

Orwell takes this dystopian image of the elimination of relationships even further by demonstrating how it can be achieved through psychological torture.

Question 5

Part 5.

O’Brien’s torturing of various individuals targets the core..

Answer 5

O’Brien’s torturing of various individuals targets the core aspect of humanity by inverting the principles of love and demanding that Winston accepts a world of “fear and rage”.

The Party’s success of entirely breaking relationships is evident when Winston is tortured to a point where his only salvation is through the horrific pleas to have his lover ‘Julia’ receive the same punishment; “Do it to Julia”

The complete destruction of loving relationships conclude as Winston only now “loved Big Brother” rendering the human spirit destroyed under the baleful supremacy of the Party.