Connected Text Study, Between 1984 and Sin City

Review:candreacchio
“Governments have all the control”, Discuss in relation to 1984 and Sin City Both 1984 and Sin City use the extremes of government control. The justice system in Sin City is corrupt and is very ineffective, whereas in 1984 it is very effective and has too much control over the general public. Both systems are worse off for the general public. In 1984 the main reason that the government have the excess of control is that they wish to have the Party’s reign forever. If someone disagrees with anything they do, then they will be severally punished, in some cases by extreme torture, until they agree with anything the Party says to them. In Sin City, the government does have some control over the public, but not enough to keep the city a safe place, and the government forces which are supposed to keep the city safe, are partially corrupt so that no one can rely on the police or the court systems. For example, when the police catch Marv, “The judge is all fire and brimstone when she hands down the sentence” they framed Marv for not just the crimes he committed, but also other people’s crimes. The reason was because when they do catch a criminal, it is not often so they try to place as many charges on them as possible. The reason that the Party has so much control over the public is so that the Party can have the power over the rest of the countries until a revolution occurs. “If there is hope, it lies in the proles”, as the proles are the only people of the population, can be compared to the working class of today’s society, that are not under the full control of the Party. They do all the hard work labour, and are left mainly alone from the Party as if they are disturbed from anyway, they would stop any flow of materials to the rest of the countries. The rest of the population however is under a influence not to up rise against the Party. Whereas in Sin City, they don’t have much control over the public as they don’t have enough cops to go around and the cops that are employed, are sometimes corrupt. For instance, when a big bust is about to happen, by Detective John Hartigan, his partner, Michael Madsen. This is just the smallest bit of corruption as a senator frames Det. Hartigan for the bust because the senator’s son was the one who should have been arrested. The affects due to the governments having most of the control are very extreme. In 1984, Winston feels that he will rebel against the Party in any way possible, as he knows that once he has broken the law the first time, he is a dead man living.

He starts up an affair with Julia, who also has rebelled many times against the Party. Whereas in Sin City, the affects of not enough government control are extreme, as there is lots of violence, which rules the streets even when there are policemen around. Both of the general population seem to be rebelling against the government in some way, whether they are standing up in an intellectual or physical way. Generally, both of the books have something against what the current government is doing, either by making everyone have equal rights, as in 1984, or not protecting its citizens enough, as in Sin City. In both texts, there is the theme of sex. In Sin City there are many examples of sex as all parts of the film involve it. Two main examples are the prostitutes in Old Town, and the story about the death of Goldie and how Marv avenges the death. This shows that prostitution is a major part of the life in Sin City. The theme of sex is also in 1984, with the relationship between Winston and Julia. This relationship is the reason that leads to their capture by the thought police, and eventually to their “curing”. Winston loves Julia, mainly because they both think on the same wavelength, and he enjoys knowing that there are many other people within the Party who also think the same was as well. In Sin City, prostitution is legalised, but only in one section of town, whereas in 1984 it is banned. Both governments have a problemwith the amount of control they impose on the general public, one government believes that over control is the key to the Party’s future, and one government is so corrupt anything can happen. In an ideal world, it would be a mixture of both worlds, so there is no corruption, but enough control over the general public to keep the streets safe. In most countries, this equilibrium is met, but in the other countries, it’s more about the reign of the government and not the people. But after all, “The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.” – Robert Heinlein, 1984 By Carlo Andreacchio
Connected Text Study, Between 1984 and Sin City Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/books/18526-connected-text-study-1984-sin/

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the Spanish Renaissance, the Golden Age of Spanish Theatre, is yet strangely modern in its theme and speculations.

LIFE IS A DREAM

Review:CatherineGallagher
This play, written during the Spanish Renaissance, the Golden Age of Spanish Theatre, is yet strangely modern in its theme and speculations. There are fundamental questions of the nature of reality, dream and illusion. It also questions the nature, accuracy and cause of foretelling; the upbringing of the young and their training with the responsibility of the parents for the character and nature of their young. There are questions of honor and life and the nature of honor and its almost infinite worth; of gratitude and its obligations; of blood kinship and its obligations. These are acted out in teh context of questions of the succession in the Kingdom of Poland. The story starts with a servant man and his mistress (dressed as a man) stumbling down a hill over rocks. They come upon a man chained in a tower lamenting his lack of freedom since his birth. The two strangers are apprehended by the guards and are sent to the king to be executed (even though the girl is the child of the head of the guards). They are forgiven by the King, since the man who has been imprisoned is to be freed; he is the Prince and rightful heir to the throne. The Prince is subsequently brought to the court after being given a sleeping draught, so that his nature can be tested. He shows himself to be cruel, arrogant, insolent, violent and tyrranical, so he is sent back to his prison as soon as he sleeps again, to be told it was all a dream.

The girl has come to the court to avenge her dishonor on the King''s nephew, who is to marry his cousin, the King''s niece, and to take over the throne. The people want no part of the foreign rulers, however, and the Prince is set free and acclaimed as their true king. Civil war follows, but the Prince wins. His father has to submit to him, as the stars foretold at the boy''s birth. But he has been changed by his experiences, and he in turn submits to his father. All is forgiven. His cousin acknowledges the girl as his wife. The girl cousin is given to a good husband. The Prince, proclaiming that life is a dream, and a dream of a dream, is careful to be good, in case he wakes up imprisoned in the tower again, after he points out to his father that the way he''d been treated would have turned the gentlest heart bestial. The play as a whole is Romantic, even Gothic in flavour, yet its philosophy is very Eastern, even Oriental.
LIFE IS A DREAM Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/entertainment/plays/1681856-life-dream/