In George Orwell’s 1984, the totalitarian government the Party has a process of rewriting history and destroying evidence of what was previously true, in order to control what the truth is and what the public knows to keep them under the control of the Party. One instance of this is when Winston, whose job is…

After witnessing the trial of Nazi SS Officer Adolf Eichmann in 1961, Hannah Arendt expressed how it seemed that Eichmann’s actions came more from a notion of banal evil; his evil actions while in the Nazi party weren’t done with evil intention, but instead was the result of a bureaucrats obeying orders given to them. In…

Both of the western films High Noon and Rio Bravo were stated by their creators to have anti-communist themes, which is shown through the visual aspects of the films. In High Noon, Marshall Will Kane tries to find some townsfolk to deputize and help him fight off a gang. He ends up at the church…

When joining a political party, people normally join whichever party aligns with their own ideology and opinions most. This notion stays true for parties like the Nazis and Communist Party, because many joined those parties due to their genuine belief that the party ideology matched best with their own and would provide the best future…

In the reading of Whittaker Chambers’ Witness, Chambers discusses why he made the choice to join the Communist Party in 1925. He believed in the communist ideology and that the ideology was the best chance for creating a more peaceful world. Yet, Chambers described the decision to his wife as “leaving the winning world for…

This is a blog for my ENLS 245 course, Terror With a Human Face. I will be posting on here when my Professor asks us to do blogging assignments.