blog #3 Hannah Arendt (Total Domination)

What is the role of the terror in the totalitarian state?

First of all, what is the dictionary definition for the word terror? It is the ability to instill intense fear. From this definition we can understand that the role of terror in a totalitarian government is very important for the government to stay in power. The governments in a totalitarian state use terror as an implement to prevent people of thinking to stand up against the government. Those kinds of government use many different ways to terror people or degrade people. For example, there were some governments who used camps like the one Hannah Arendt described on her essay Total Domination. On this kind of terror the totalitarian government use the camps to separate mans, women, and children. After that the solider torture those people by making them work for long hours without any break or food. This kind of terror used more than once though out history mostly on Germany by Hitler during war world II and than recently by Sadam Husain to prevent Iraqis from getting the freedom. This kind of terror used against group of people or race in Germany or against people who want their freedom like what happen in Iraq. More than that, there were some other ways that totalitarian governments had used to terror people. On some country they use prison as a terror tool; on other words the government put every perso who is revolutionary in jail so other people learn their lessons. And on some governments they hung individuals who try to speak up for the people and so on. There are different ways to terror people but the conclusion is one which is make the people give up.