Kartik Singh
English Pottfolio
6 Word Memoirs
10 Rules for a Dystopian Society
- You are constantly monitored by the government for "safety".
- History is invalid and incorrect. The correct accounts of history are possessed by the government.
- The government decides what is best for your health and controls the amount of food you can buy.
- At no one point should you question the leader and the government.
- Family, Friends, and Neighbors should be reported if an sign of non conformity is shown.
- Watching the morning and evening show on the government television set is mandatory
- All written media is false and if not stamped by the government is illegal.
- All outsiders are a dangerous and should not be talked to, especially the ones claiming to know the truth about the government.
- Love isn't real, when in literature you see reference to love it is to be destroyed since false information should not be spread.
- At any point there shall be conversation about anything else except weather, food, and entertainment.
Poems
I walk around in a disguise,
no one has any allies,
people are always snitching,
always looking to chastise,
Big Brother is watching,
With his vigilant eyes,
he is always stalking,
inside im making cries,
for answers and explanations,
my imagination blossoms like a carnation,
yet im a victim of predation.
Blog Post Why 1984 Matters
1984 is one the most influential texts which have been made available to us. 1984 is a totalitarian dystopian nightmare set in a Grim London set in future at the time of the book was written. It was intended as a warning to the future generations against letting communism and other forms of totalitarian governments which were beginning to gain popularity back then. Eric Blair (George Orwell) did not agree with these ideologies and wrote a cautionary novel warning against it. If a time capsule was being buried for a 100 years this is one of the pieces of literature that deserve to be in the capsule. Unlike other pieces of literature this book will forever remain relevant since government will always be around people. Government has been there since the human civilization has started. Even when there were tribal primal humans running around three was still an informal group of governing or elders which control the people. We went from tribe elders to The Roman Empire to the modern government. In this several different types of ideologies those that were dangerous. One of the most notable ones were Totalitarian Communism, which were adopted by some countries but it faced a lot of objections and oppositions from other people. 1984 accurately paints how a totalitarian regime would look like if it was present in today’s world. The constant supervision and propaganda and the grim depressing image of London in this society. Although the government is constantly boasting about more materials, higher quality of living yet all around when an individual looks they can see is poverty and struggle around them. The government is constantly monitoring the people and chastises them for just even saying saying or disproving anything against the government. The Leader is worshiped as a god (Big Brother) and people orthodoxy to the government is expected almost as it is instinctive. This book has been quoted endlessly in politic to protect and warn against tyranny and will also be used in the future.
lyrics
(Hook)
Voila!
You got what you wanted
Voila
Eyes Sharper than a chain saw
Voila
Big Brother You in control
Voila Voila Voila Voila
(Verse 1)
Im not locked anymore
You might be watching
But you think I care for?
Faking books
That isn’t for me
Lying to the people
That isn’t for me
I cant say anything
Cuz big brother watching me
This stuff is haunting me
Writing in my book
Will make me an absentee
Make a single sound
Telescreen is watching me
Don’t know my family tree
Saying this out loud
Is basically me eating
The fruit of the poisonous tree.
Voila!
You got what you wanted
Voila
Eyes Sharper than a chain saw
Voila
Big Brother You in control
Voila Voila Voila Voila
Writing to Obrien
Words make me feel like a lion
Quality of living went up?
Man I do not buy in
Thought the thought police
Was watching me
But it was no enemy
Found a friend named Julia
Oh my Hallejuah
Hung with the proles for a minute
Rooms with no telescreens?
I wanna live in it
Big Brother watching me and saying
Whodunnit?
Kids snitchin on their parents
Its like the feds are in your house
If youre not orthodox
Don’t drop any hints