Utopia In George Orwell's 1984

The novel 1984, written by George Orwell, is based on a negative utopian society in the year of 1984 and it is about a man named Winston who lives celled within a government called the Party, also ruled by Big Brother, so lavished with power that dictators like Hitler and Stalin would never had imagined possible. This government has complete ruling over the people of Oceania, the place where the story takes place, by means of keeping their actions and thoughts under control and punishing with death, those who showed merely a glimpse of contradiction to the Party’s beliefs even though there are no laws of any kind established. Winston, the protagonist, works for the Outer Party, which is considered as a middle-class job in today’s world, where he …show more content…
When O’Brien arrests Winston he reassures him that “the Party seeks power entirely for its own sake...we’re interested solely in power…. Power is not a means; it is an end” (Orwell 217). The Party seeks control because its instinct is to eradicate any threat present to its domination, therefore in this way, without any other underlying cause, the government of Oceania restricts personal thoughts and sexual relations to avoid any awakening to human nature. Similarly, in The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s character Danforth seeks power for his own reputation in the village he lives in, “Near to four hundred are in the jails...on my signature” (Miller 80). Danforth makes this statement during the proceedings of a trial, only to impress others in the room of his power as a judge, for in that way no one would ever question him or threaten to take over his place as an official of the court. In both 1984 and The Crucible the author’s showcase a figure in power that not only its main goals is to protect its power, but to seek more as well by the means of manipulating a society with death or