Current Events In George Orwell's 1984

George Orwell’s 1984, is a novel with themes that strongly ties in with what was the current events of the 20th century, most predominantly during and immediately after the Second World War. 1984 tells the story of Winston Smith, a middle aged man who lives in Airstrip One (a province of the superpower “Oceania”), who slowly falls into a state of “revolutionary ideas” and dreaming of a rebellion against the party. Winston meets Julia, a young woman with whom he shares his many ideas to “overthrow” the party. In the end, Winston and Julia both gets caught and are sent to an interrogation and rehabilitation facility to join society once again, and in the end, Winston “finally wins the battle with himself”, and metaphorically kills himself, …show more content…
This word is from the made up language of Newspeak, created for 1984. Thought-crime stands for the thought of illegal crimes. The children are obsessed with violence, and are obviously part of the “Spies”, an organization that teaches children to spy on people, mostly their parents. This organization also teaches children from a very young age to follow the principles of the Party and become a model citizen. This organization encourages children to betray their parents, and only focus their love to Big Brother. Big Brother is the said founder of Oceania, which is the super-state, that the book is set in. The entire book has the set idea that the people of Oceania should only have affection or love towards one person, Big Brother. Most likely, Big Brother does not exist, but instead he acts as a symbol to represent control over the population, and a person symbol that the people of Oceania can respect and relate to. The children of Oceania are thought at a young age to believe that the Party contributed many important things into society, inventing many things that were not originally invented by the