In theory, General Cummings’s theory of “fear ladder” and ”power morality” is dominant in the whole Army; in practice, they subdue their anger for fear of Croft’s cruelness. Whenever the soldiers complain, Croft would suppress them with his gun.
4.2 From the Perspective of Country
A totalitarian regime attempts to control virtually all aspects of the social life including economy, education, art, science, private life and morals of citizens. Eric Hoffer (2002) in his book The True Believer argues that mass movements like Fascism and Nazism had a common trait in picturing Western democracies and their values as decadent, with people "too soft, too pleasure-loving and too selfish" to sacrifice for a higher cause, which for them implies an inner moral and biological decay. Eric Hoffer (2002) further claims that those movements offered the prospect of a glorious future to frustrated people, enabling them to find a refuge from the lack of personal accomplishments in their individual existence. The individual is then assimilated into a compact collective body and "fact-proof screens from reality" are established. In the book, Cummings said that America will become a totally imperialism country and this is the result of his fascism.
5 Totalitarianism and the Influence of Power to Human Being in The Naked and the Dead
When people’s desire for power increasingly growing up, there must exist totalitarianism. So it is essential to analyze totalitarianism and the influence of power to human being in The Naked and the Dead.
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