The Dystopian View Of 1984 By George Orwell

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In the book 1984 George Orwell explains his dystopian vision of what 1984 is going to be like from his perspective in 1949. As many of us know the dystopian idea of 1984 never came fully into fruition due to the fact that 1984 has come and gone . In the book Winston Smith, a regular human being in the dystopian society, tries to get out of this situation and to figure out why the government are doing these suspicious acts. Some other main characters are Julia and O 'brien. Throughout the book, most characters are very pessimistic which can relate to George Orwells attitude on life; he thought that nothing good would happen in the future . This is very contradictory because the spirit of the age at this time is very optimistic and happy since …show more content…
People sought to end this type of government and stalins terror which began the Cold War. The communist party in Russia during the 1940’s used many things such as terror to achieve there goals. One example of this is that in Russia they had the KBG that were stalins secret police who would eliminate all opposing people of the communist party. They were killed in camps from starvation, cruel torture and the cold weather of Russia. We also see that the communist party of Russia restricted people 's thoughts and made people think stuff that wasn 't actually true like that if they would work hard enough they would be wealthy eventually who he 'd never happened. Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You 've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I’ll tell you anything you want. I don 't care who it is or what you do to them. I 've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn 't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I 'll stand by and watch it. But not Room 101!" (Orwell,236) this quote relates exactly to the camps the opposing members the party were sent were they were tortured and killed. They sat there for months on end until they became brainwashed enough to be released back into the …show more content…
The fascist party of Italy censors forced radio stations and publications to broadcast or publish only fascist ideas. Meaning that the government censored everything except the fascist radio channels so thats the only thing people would listen to making censorship valuable to a fascists state because it made people believe in the cause. Another important aspect to a fascist state is the supremacy of the military. Without that you can 't succeed with this government because it depended on the constant growth of your area. We see Mussolini do this Ethiopia and in other parts of Eastern Europe “Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?”(Orwell,39). This quote perfectly describes the censorship that was going in Italy during Mussolini reign. It 's good because in the book Big Brothers alliance say that there is only one language in the world which is newspeak. And some words were even banned from being said or written down and if you did you were reported to the thought police. It was either you believed the language or you would be tortured and killed they weren 't allowed to speak any other languages. People were censored to only what the ministries thought was right. “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

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