Dehumanization In 1984 George Orwell

It is safe to say we all have a common negative response to a topic discussing totalitarianism, due to us living and waking up every day in a country with a democratic structure. Each and every human being living in the U.S.A. and is recognized as a U.S. citizen acquire human rights and the power to say and be whatever you want. Comparing these benefits we have to the Orwell's society in 1984, the public is shown as inhumane, almost treated like dirt or perhaps worse, by the government and Party Members using the process known as dehumanization. Not only are the Party's responses to their society viewed as inhumane and disrespectful either through seeing what they serve to their workers or the idea of having to follow these made-up rules, it shows that it can be worse than anticipated by how they can manipulate the public, not physically but through intellectual …show more content…
Although this information is unknown to them, they would rather believe in it and hope for the best if it is true than just ignore it. Taking in information that is unknown to us, believable or not, is not a new discussion nowadays; seeing how the media and how they can broadcast information, discussing about war or an epidemic, favoring their country’s side. It might look like we are totally different than from how Orwell's society is shown but overall, we do believe in all kinds of information not knowing if false or accurate and we do have stereotypes that lower our expectations to certain races or people with different skin colors. The practice of dehumanization and believing unknown information is quite common in our present day society not only making us similar to Orwell's society, but justifying the possible choices of whether to commit to these practices or not, depending on how you view the public and