Totalitarianism 1984

George Orwell’s political parable, 1984, portrays an oppressive and dictatorial government, which thereby presents to the reader a palpable sense of danger and malevolence born out of the creation of a counter utopic totalitarian regime. Orwell’s nihilistic creation of Oceania, presents a world wherein every aspect of private and public life is abhorrently regimented and regulated by the autocratic ‘Big Brother’. The whole population at large is forced to conform to the ideals and beliefs of the tyrannical ‘party’ as a means of not only survival but also a means of being able to live an unabated existence. The party opposes all forms of individuality and

George Orwell’s 1984 is more than just a novel, it is a warning to a potential dystopian society of the future. Written in 1949, Orwell envisioned a totalitarian government under the figurehead Big Brother. In this totalitarian society, every thought and action is carefully examined for any sign of rebellion against the ruling party. Emotion has been abolished and love is nonexistent; an entire new language is being drafted to reduce human thought to the bare minimum. In a society such as the one portrayed in 1984, one is hardly human. In George Orwell’s 1984, the party uses fear, oppression, and propaganda to strip the people of their humanity.

Despite the valiant way Orwell depicts Winston, Orwell does not fail to reveal the flaws of Winston’s character. By revealing the actions the Brotherhood are willing to commit, Orwell induces the reader to question the motives of the organization that hopes to overthrow the Party. Though Orwell portrays Winston and Julia as the heroic individuals that stand against the Party, their conversation with O’Brien reveals that their morals are more twisted than the reader anticipated. Because the questions O’Brien poses are of such a gruesome nature, such as “throw[ing] sulphuric acid in a child’s face”, the reader can question the intentions of the Brotherhood (Orwell 172). In his analytical article, On Nineteen Eighty Four, Thomas Horan analyzes

In George Orwell’s Oceania, Big Brother reshapes every person to be a model citizen. In order to be a model citizen, one must follow the countless strict rules and worship Big Brother. By not following the rules, Big Brother vaporizes the criminals, which means that they kill them and then, they are never spoken of again. The slightest mistake could ruin one’s life; even thinking the wrong thought. One of the many crimes is thought crime. The Thought Police essentially kidnaps all those who commit thought crime and reshape them to worship Big Brother. In 1984 The Party reshapes Winston Smith into a model citizen after hating the Party and Big Brother. This is an example of one’s thoughts and feelings being suppressed by the government. In George Orwell’s 1984, totalitarianism negatively affects the citizens of Oceania by destroying relationships and suppressing thoughts, feelings and relationships between the people.

1984 is a book written by george orwell depicts a totalitarian society of a new word order in which three superstate are at constant perpetual wars. Here, the totalitarian government or also known as “the party” control every aspect of the people's lives, lead by an ominous being who goes by the name ‘Big Brother”. Here, “big brother’ monitors the people's every move with objects call teli-screens that monitor the people's every move. The party has created a new language called “newspeak” to replace the inferior language called “old speak”. “Newspeak” was created in order to simplify the the language making it more straightforward, thus getting rid of double meaning in order to control the thoughts of the people. To the party, thoughs are considered

Despite how soley totalitarianism is presented in 1984, George Orwell believes that humanity should not reflect these negative qualities that the society adopts. Orwell's vision of humanity will still exist in the dystopian future. Take Winston as an example of how Orwell’s dystopian society will still be great, he portrays himself as an outcast in Oceania, he truly believes that Big Brother is a joke and always questions himself about how he wanted to overthrow The Party but doubted himself many times. There were some cases where people in 1984 who had the same motives as Winston, which was called The Brotherhood, an organized secretive group that also wanted to bring down The Party. This secretive group that wanted to bring down The Party signifies that humanity will

When power goes too far, you get to see what people are really like. George Orwell’s 1984 demonstrates a strong sense of totalitarianism in a society called “Oceania”. The leader of Oceania is the Inner Party, or “the Party” for short. The Party is a group of elites who use a symbolic figure they call “Big Brother” to control the middle and lower classes. They use the Thought Police, which is a government group of unknown individuals that aim to suppress these lower classes and their individuality. This helps to accomplish the Party’s goal of complete control. In a world with manipulation and surveillance, it is inevitable that government corruption exists.

We notice that “Big Brother” and “The Party” are representatives of the government and its officials that many question the true existence of. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” (Orwell, 2) is one of the many examples of the attempt at psychological control that the government uses. The Party, who opposes normal human practices such as sex, having emotions, and thinking, keeps a firm grasp on their control with Doublethink. Doublethink forces people to ignore the contradictions of what The Party tells them and accept their ideals as facts, this is one example of Oceania’s government causing citizens to repress their natural impulse of thinking independently. This can have disastrous effects, seeing that when one does not think independently, ideas that aren’t one’s own become shared amongst the masses and can cause violent thoughts that ensue riots. An example of this is the riot-like atmosphere that was incited by Donald Trump against the media at one of his events. His supporters spat out hate-fueled offenses towards the Press and got quite riled up with Trump’s encouragement. This incident resembled the traditional “Two Minutes Hate” (Orwell, 9) that is designed to keep the masses under governmental control with a common figure to pledge a detestation for, Goldstein but in this case, the media. This shared anger and violence poses a threat to any developing country’s

Totalitarianism is a type of regime that all the residents of a country are completely controlled by their government. Unlike Democracy, people who live under totalitarianism do not truly possess their human rights at all. The government’s orders are their only belief. In George Orwell’s famous political novel named “1984”, he portrays how people live under totalitarianism and how totalitarian government tries to maintain its power to control over people thus the individual’s instinct is limited. Under the government’s tortures, the main character named Winston Smith is forced to “vaporize” his own thinking in order to completely obey to Big brother, the symbolic totalitarian ruler of Oceania.

Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Franco. Some of the most famous dictators of the twentieth century all had one common trait: absolute power over others. However, these individuals were not simply handed power; they actually earned the hearts of their unknowing subjects. The year 1949 witnessed the aftermath of the rise of totalitarianism, and many could not fathom how such leaders came to influence. How did people allow and even support these atrocities? In the novel 1984, author George Orwell warns his audience about the dangers of totalitarianism by depicting the power struggle between the citizens of Oceania and the Party, symbolized by the figurehead Big Brother, in which the latter is seeking to gain power over the former.

George Orwell describes what life would be like if we lived in a totalitarianistic society in his book 1984. This book portrays like in a dictatorship in which personal freedoms are severely limited. Well, this is the life of Winston Smith the main protagonist in 1984; his every action and thought is controlled by the government. The book consists of Winston’s feelings and actions towards his oppression. It tells the story of human nature and our fear of control and rebellion against it.

1984 is a story of what totalitarian governments could possibly become if they were to continue to exist in “modern society”. While the story may have been written as a work of fiction, we now have the capability to do what the party did in 1984, but now we could do it to a larger scale. When 1984 was written in 1949, totalitarian government were new and no one knew anything about them, Orwell wrote the book based entirely on what he had seen in his trips to placed with totalitarian rule. Orwell had to make up a lot of stuff in order to both make the book interesting and to terrify people of totalitarian governments like Russia and eventually Cuba, but he managed to come up with some fairly accurate ideas which were used. The erasure of political figures is one that Orwell managed to get spot on.

In 1984, Orwell’s warning of a totalitarian government can be seen through the portrayal of distorted familial bonds and the shadowy figure of Big Brother. As Winston describes the systematic training of children into becoming spies, he notes the eager attitude with which the children take on their new roles and turn on their parents. The government undermines the role of family, instead replacing it with the reverence of Big Brother through psychological manipulations similar to the paradoxical doublethink. Consequently, Orwell dispassionately alludes that “it was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children” and that children were often honored as “child hero[s]” for turning their parents in (Orwell 24). The

1984 was written with the purpose to warn citizens of the serious danger totalitarianism could pose to society. A totalitarian government controls almost every aspect of life. Totalitarian society is usually ruled by a dictator, and there is little to no freedom. George Orwell became concerned by the role that technology had in enabling the government to monitor and control their citizens. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” explains the Party’s technique of using false history to influence its readers. The Party chooses exactly what to tell the public, regardless of what is accurate. The propaganda machine, which constantly corrects old material to reflect the Party's current position on

In Orwell’s 1984, he displays psychological manipulation through Oceania’s government which it uses to control its citizens. This includes the use of propaganda, control of content, and ethnocentrism. The Party’s methods of control relates to real life events repeated in history such as the Nazi Regime from 1933 to 1945 headed by Adolf Hitler and common patterns in cultural history.