Manipulations of Memory Used by Orwell and Williams

The consistent improvement of â€Å"Big Brother† as the all-controlling element in George Orwell’s 1984 is the reason for the job truth plays all through the novel. Truth is worked against society to help the administration. So also, Tennessee Williams makes an exceptionally unique condition for his characters in The Glass Menagerie while keeping up a similar capacity of truth as a wellspring of mutilation and control. All in all, the topics of dehumanization in 1984 and contortion of memory in The Glass Menagerie identify with each other in regards to the capacity of truth in each work to validate a feeling of power and misdirection. Persecution in 1984 as an immediate instrument of dehumanization is made very obvious inside the content. The inward party utilizes a few indoctrinating and torment strategies to free society of past recollections and encounters. The impacts these strategies have upon truth are significant in their respect. The aim of â€Å"Big Brother† is to decrease people comprehension to a progressively essential, handily controlled and void record where the motivation of the internal party can be executed easily. We see the degree to which comprehension of the past influences one’s disposition about the current when Winston states, â€Å"And when memory fizzled and set up accounts were falsifiedâ€when that occurred, the case of the Party to have improved the states of human life had got the opportunity to be acknowledged, in light of the fact that there didn't exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested† (Orwell 93). This statement is said following Winston’s baffling discussion with the elderly person about existence before the Revolution. Winston is settling that the gathering has intentionally decided to debilitate people’s recollections so as to render them unfit to challenge what the Party guarantees about the present. On the off chance that nobody recollects life before the Revolution, at that point nobody can say that the Party has bombed humankind by driving individuals to live in states of shortage, foulness, numbness, and starvation. Or maybe, the gathering utilizes modified history books and adulterated records to demonstrate its great deeds. This demonstrates the hypothesis that reality is reliant of memory and without memory truth is dependent upon control and for this situation dehumanization. Orwell not just proposes this hypothesis through the occasions saw in Winston yet additionally through Winston’s own acquiescence to â€Å"Big Brother† and its meaning of truth toward the finish of the novel. After the inward party’s tireless endeavor to cleanse Winston of any denied contemplations, they accomplish their objective of dehumanizing him. The storyteller carries conclusion to the novel as he depicts Winston’s â€Å"new† character. â€Å"He looked up at the tremendous face. Forty years it had taken him to realize what sort of grin was covered up underneath the dim mustache. O savage, unnecessary misconception! O obstinate, stubborn outcast from the caring bosom! Two gin-scented tears streamed down the sides of his nose. Yet, it was good, everything was OK, the battle was done. He had prevailed upon the triumph himself. He adored Big Brother†, said the storyteller (Orwell 297). Winston’s interest towards â€Å"Big Brother† was winning during the prior pieces of the novel. This interest before long changes into hostility encouraging him to join a dissident gathering to oust â€Å"Big Brother†. In spite of these negative emotions, the intensity of dehumanization neutralizes what long stretches of interest have said to Winston to be valid. His memory of â€Å"Big Brother† as being counterproductive to society is not, at this point existent on the grounds that his current circumstance says that â€Å"Big Brother† ought to be adored genuinely. The way that Winston’s change was fruitful should concentrate the peruser on truth and memory and how they are tantamount. The dehumanization of memory remains as a guideline subject in 1984 and it is through this topic that Orwell capacities truth to uncover the craving of misleading. Tennessee Williams adopts a relating strategy to truth and its capacity in his play, The Glass Menagerie. The characters, Amanda, Tom, and Laura all face the comparative situation of a distorted view of the real world. The mother, Amanda, is the most glaring character trying to claim ignorance. Her circumstance as a single parent bringing up two youngsters has subconsciously bamboozled what she sees as genuine. In a discussion with Laura Amanda is cited â€Å"Why you're not disabled, you simply have a little imperfection †barely observable, even! At the point when individuals have some slight burden that way, they develop different things to compensate for it †create enchant †and vivacity †and †charm† (Orwell 18)! Apparently everybody is very mindful that Laura is disabled nonetheless, Amanda won't deal with this event. She manages this lamentable certainty by misleading herself that her girl isn't disabled therefore demonstrating there to be little veracity to any recollections she has. All through the play Amanda is loaded with duplicities. Amanda changes her style of discourse to a southern emphasize when Laura’s man of his word guest shows up. Amanda states â€Å"â€Å"light food an’ light garments are what warm climate calls fo†Ã¢â‚¬  (Orwell 63). The peruser is informed that Amanda was conceived in the south. Regardless of that, this is the first occasion when she talks with a southern highlight. Amanda clarifies her newfound emphasize as her â€Å"rejuvenated† character yet the peruser can accept this is her endeavor to delude the individuals around her to accept she is something that she isn't further uncovering her misleading memory. Thus, Tom and Laura are caught by this figment Amanda makes. Laura is profoundly needy upon her mom in this manner she is impacted by Amanda’s sees. Tom worries about the concern of accommodating his family and can't leave from this universe of falsehoods and lies. Amanda’s present state has mutilated her memory and basically contorted her feeling of self and reality. Her capacity to do this has given her control of what she can feel and in this manner how she can carry on with her life regardless of not having the option to escape from the neediness stricken life. Notwithstanding having differentiating impacts behind their regarded subjects, 1984 and The Glass Menagerie share a typical reason to deal with reality through the control of truth. In 1984 Winston watched and encountered the strategies that â€Å"Big Brother† used to give the open a deceptive perspective on truth. Through dehumanization, â€Å"Big Brother† accomplished full authority over its residents by deleting all recollections of life before the unrest. Without any recollections to pass by society was helpless before â€Å"Big Brother† and what the internal party thought about satisfactory. Individuals couldn't pass judgment on directly from wrong in light of the fact that â€Å"Big Brother† was all they at any point knew. The Glass Menagerie is practically identical is the feeling that Amanda expected to deal with her life which appeared to turn into the ground. She was vulnerable and this inclination drove her to shape her own world so as to recover this feeling of control. Individuals are normally dreadful of things they can't win. Amanda couldn't accomplish opportunity from her condition along these lines she made her own way through a tricky memory. Her youngsters were caught in this life of untruths similarly as Winston was in 1984. In the two works we see a craving of capacity to control their regarded circumstances. 1984 looked for the control of society though The Glass Menagerie looked for the control of the Wingfield future. The intensity of memory is existential to the human capacity of seeing the present. George Orwell’s 1984 and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie control memory in such a comparative style, that their elements of truth are about indistinguishable concerning their motivation. In 1984 truth is worked against society for â€Å"Big Brother† and the inward gatherings motivation through dehumanization. Essentially, Orwell utilizes Amanda’s character in The Glass Menagerie to show the significance of memory and how one’s own misleading of truth can misshape their existence significantly. The two bits of work supplement each other and harden the case that memory or a tricky memory so far as that is concerned is powerless against abuse and the impacts can be significant as to one’s feeling of fact.