Dystopia In The Book 1984 By George Orwell

Imagine living in a country where all of your rights are limited, and you are living underneath surveillance 24/7. You cannot do anything about your situation because you are too fearful of the consequences of obtaining a different perspective and opinion of the way you are living. In the book 1984 George George Orwell depicts a story of a totalitarian government where the citizens are brainwashed to believe what the “Party”~higher authority tells them. The Party alters any information that can cause its members to rebel against them. And to keep order within the country “The Party” has its members under the surveillance and makes them participate in activities that will continue to brainwash them. But in this story, there is this character …show more content…
Those that were born during the reign of the Party have an easier time accepting them, in Winston’s case, he was born before the reign of the Party so it is hard for him to accept these principles ;he commits crimes that are against the Party but tries to hide it so he can escape being caught. “He obeyed the Party,but he still hated the Party. In the old days he had been a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity,now he had retreated a step further. In the mind he had surrendered,but he had hoped to keep the inner heart inviolate” (Orwell 307). This quote is later on in the book, after the downfall of Winston and after he spent seven years of imprisonment and torture. Like North Korea, Winston gets tortured till he loves Big Brother and believes in the fallacy of the Party.Even though deep inside he isn’t in favor of the Party, because the circumstance that he is in, he is forced to believe