1984: Diving into Deeper Meanings Imagine a society where you are always being watched. You can’t think on your own, speak your mind, or even feel any type of emotion. In George Orwell’s 1984, he writes of a Dystopian society in Oceania that is basically under totalitarian rule. Although reading into this book further, there are underlying connections with the story. In this society there are many ideas and connections that tie with Marxism, Nazism, Communism and the Red Scare, subsequently during the time Orwell wrote this novel. In 1984, we see Winston as the main character. He is seen as a normal man that works as a records editor in the Records Department at the Ministry of Truth. In the society 's eyes, he is an everyday worker part
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“And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programs, plays, novels to a Newspeak dictionary” (Orwell). The Inner party was just putting out all the information in Oceania but the information is the only things they want you to know.
In the quote about Hitler and his totalitarian state, it also referenced that the people he ruled had no freedom of speech. Moving back to 1984 the Though Police did not allow you to even think, you weren 't allowed to do this, which relates to Hitler and him taking away people 's freedom of speech “People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word” (Orwell) That was the penalty if you did anything wrong. Remember, these people were being constantly watched and listening to, if you as so much said one thing bad about them, you will most likely not be there tomorrow. With this Thought Police, everything was very strict, you weren 't allowed to own or possess anything that was regulated by the inner party, which anyone caught be rebellious was punished in the Ministry …show more content…
The Phrase is INGSOC, which is the merging of the words English and Socialism. In Oceania you mainly see it as a Capitalistic state with corruption, yet they promote a phrase that relates to socialism “At the same time, Oceania’s economy seems to be some form of capitalism but presented as socialism” ( People ). Regardless, Oceania still had views of capitalism but no distribution of wealth. Looking onto this from a Marxist perspective, the Inner Party were separated from the outer party and proles. The Inner Party would be known as bourgeoisie “the bourgeoisie—those who control the world’s natural, economic, and human resources” (Tyson 54) Each one of those three things represented that Ministry’s and the proles known as the proletariat. “ proletariat, the majority of the global population who live in substandard conditions and who have always performed the manual labor” (Tyson 54).
But the main idea of INGSOC was Socialism. George Orwell, the author of 1984 wrote this book during the time of the cold war, and Stalin. Orwell “began using the term totalitarianism to indicate the corruption of Socialist ideals under Stalin” (Resch 142). Basically what this showed Orwell saw the corruption that Stalin was using with Socialism and was morphing it into communism and the Red
“And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programs, plays, novels to a Newspeak dictionary” (Orwell). The Inner party was just putting out all the information in Oceania but the information is the only things they want you to know.
In the quote about Hitler and his totalitarian state, it also referenced that the people he ruled had no freedom of speech. Moving back to 1984 the Though Police did not allow you to even think, you weren 't allowed to do this, which relates to Hitler and him taking away people 's freedom of speech “People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word” (Orwell) That was the penalty if you did anything wrong. Remember, these people were being constantly watched and listening to, if you as so much said one thing bad about them, you will most likely not be there tomorrow. With this Thought Police, everything was very strict, you weren 't allowed to own or possess anything that was regulated by the inner party, which anyone caught be rebellious was punished in the Ministry …show more content…
The Phrase is INGSOC, which is the merging of the words English and Socialism. In Oceania you mainly see it as a Capitalistic state with corruption, yet they promote a phrase that relates to socialism “At the same time, Oceania’s economy seems to be some form of capitalism but presented as socialism” ( People ). Regardless, Oceania still had views of capitalism but no distribution of wealth. Looking onto this from a Marxist perspective, the Inner Party were separated from the outer party and proles. The Inner Party would be known as bourgeoisie “the bourgeoisie—those who control the world’s natural, economic, and human resources” (Tyson 54) Each one of those three things represented that Ministry’s and the proles known as the proletariat. “ proletariat, the majority of the global population who live in substandard conditions and who have always performed the manual labor” (Tyson 54).
But the main idea of INGSOC was Socialism. George Orwell, the author of 1984 wrote this book during the time of the cold war, and Stalin. Orwell “began using the term totalitarianism to indicate the corruption of Socialist ideals under Stalin” (Resch 142). Basically what this showed Orwell saw the corruption that Stalin was using with Socialism and was morphing it into communism and the Red