Post by: ashtempleton on August 11, 2018, 03:24:40 pm
1. Whether it is 'Big Brother' watching or the Stasi monitoring, both texts show the emotional and psychological cost of surveillance states on their citizens.
I was think of framing my essay around the quote from 1984 (there is learning, there is understand, and there is acceptance) to show the different stages an individuals goes through in response to such an intense surveillance system, the biggest cost being losing your own humanity and individuality (though there are some cases, like Miriam, who naturally oppose this due to her consistent rebellion). I originally wanted to structure my essay kinda like this:
1. Impacts interactions with other people (loss of human connection/more emotional) (Charrington/Julia Italian letters/Winston and his Wife/Parsons)
2. Impacts internal thought (more psychological/perpetual paranoia)(Syme/goldsteins book - idea of an imaginary escape as another form of monitoring people/Miriam - cant have doors etc)
3. Acceptance (selling your humanity) (Klaus/Winston/Julia/members of stasi - miriam an exception however)
But I don't quite know if that actually fits the prompt?
Post by: S200 on August 11, 2018, 03:30:55 pm
Well, I haven't read Stasiland, but from what I know of 1984, and from the prompt, I'd say that your arguments are pretty good. They can all be classified under the banner of emotions and psychology, so I recon yeah, they do fit the prompt... ;)-snip-Hi, so I'm obviously doing a comparison essay on Stasiland and 1984. The topic I'm trying to unpack is
1. Whether it is 'Big Brother' watching or the Stasi monitoring, both texts show the emotional and psychological cost of surveillance states on their citizens.
I was think of framing my essay around the quote from 1984 (there is learning, there is understand, and there is acceptance) to show the different stages an individuals goes through in response to such an intense surveillance system, the biggest cost being losing your own humanity and individuality (though there are some cases, like Miriam, who naturally oppose this due to her consistent rebellion). I originally wanted to structure my essay kinda like this:
1. Impacts interactions with other people (loss of human connection/more emotional) (Charrington/Julia Italian letters/Winston and his Wife/Parsons)
2. Impacts internal thought (more psychological/perpetual paranoia)(Syme/goldsteins book - idea of an imaginary escape as another form of monitoring people/Miriam - cant have doors etc)
3. Acceptance (selling your humanity) (Klaus/Winston/Julia/members of stasi - miriam an exception however)
But I don't quite know if that actually fits the prompt?
**Disclaimer... I don't know nought about Stasiland, so I could be well off
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Post by: OZLexico on August 12, 2018, 05:18:35 pm
Post by: ashtempleton on August 13, 2018, 05:53:42 pm