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1984 Fight For Power Essay

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Throughout history the fight for power has been a brutal battle between man. In george orwell's’
“1984” a totalitarian party, who achieves great power over oceania with force and excessive abuse. In reality can society survive off of hatred or power taken away from citizens? Man yearns for the power that can be achieved by such approach, but the power never last long with the aggressive behavior. Political parties have worked towards a dictatorship in their country but can not be successfully established without interference of another country or coming across a bump in the road. Society cannot survive on a atmosphere of hate, the abuse of power has been proven on countless occasions throughout history
Big brother, the totalitarian party in the novel “ …show more content…

O’brien states “ the party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power….. (272). This thrive of needing absolute power over a group of people with no other reason than wanting to be in control is proof of the commitment there.
The hate in the theory cannot be a long- lasting effect without any kind of mishap to end the reign. Like big brother there are other totalitarian leaders who have used the same method such as Adolf Hitler. In the article named “how mad was hitler?” Stephen A. Diamond states “the adult Hitler was a "counteractive type," by which he meant a person primarily motivated by resentment and revenge in response to prior narcissistic wounding and profound feelings of inferiority.” he goes on to speak on the fact hitler was craving power because of his childhood but he also states he yearned for power, motivated by revenge. Hitler can be used as an example for the need of power and how a leader such as him can be achieved but is bound to be defeated by an outside force.
On the opposite end of the spectrum currently there is government who is

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