Marissa LeeMrs. BertucciITA4U7 April 2014To see or not to seeA totalitarian regime fueled by love is a government that dances on its deathbed. Only the relationship between the individual and the party and the love for its leader can be tolerated by the autocratic society. Bob Dylan explains: “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky,” describing the totalitarian and dystopian worlds of George Orwell's novel 1984 and Steven Spielberg's film Minority Report. In Orwell's 1984, war, hatred and machines are the gears that power Big Brother. By eliminating freedom and generating fear through constant propaganda, harsh laws are introduced and relentless surveillance dominates the lives of Oceanians. In Minority Report, he uses futuristic software, precogs, to prevent crime before it happens. Although there is a possibility that the crime may not even take place, the oppressive society does not allow anyone to decide, but their faith to decide for them. Sight will be the great defect and attribute of all humanity. John Legend observed: “Living is easy...
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