Marissa LeeMrs. BertucciENG4UApril 7, 2014To see or not to seeA totalitarian regime based on love is a government dancing on top of its deathbed. Only a relationship between an individual and the party and a love for its leader can be tolerated by autocratic society. Bob Dylan explains, “No one is free, even the birds are chained in the sky,” describing the totalitarian and dystopian worlds of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four 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, strict laws are put in place and incessant surveillance dominates the lives of Oceanians. In Minority Report, he uses futuristic software, precogs, to prevent crime before it happens. Even though it is possible that the crime does not take place, the oppressive society does not allow everyone to decide, but rather to decide their faith for them. Sight will be the great fault and attribute of all humanity. John Legend once remarked, “Living is easy...