Imagine growing up in a world where all you feel is fear and hate, where you have no choice but to live in isolated community and be forced to believe in things you would not normally believe in. Imagine living in a community where they start teaching at an early age to hate something by force. For example, in the book 1984 they are forced to grow up believing in what the party wants them to believe in an obeying the rules the isolated community has for the people, just like it has/is occurring and will occur throughout the world for as long as human exist. Real world examples would be like the Ku Klux Klan, North Korea, The Nazi Party, and the Al-Qaeda organization prove the existence and possibilities of such societies. Firstly,…
A third aspect of 1984 that can relate to the modern world would be the torture of people in the Ministry of Love. Just as Winston was tortured in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love, people are getting tortured all around the world. Prisons use torture strategies to get information out of people or completely destroy the information in the person’s head so they can keep secrets from becoming public. The vicious and inhumane tactics that people use of the prisoners are just as bad as how O’Brien treated Winston.…
Maya Angelou once said “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” To the human race, love is second nature. From family to friends, our favorite items, and places are all part of what we love. Lives would be totally changed, without this intense feeling of affection we instinctively feel.…
O’Brien’s character serves as a warning to future societies that manipulative powers can take shape in various forms, specifically as allies. Orwell also creates physical imagery through his description of Two Minutes Hate. Orwell writes, “A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. ”(Orwell 16) Orwell depicts a grim instance of mass hysteria, warning the reader of events that can happen due to propagandistic techniques that tyrannical political leaders…
In George Orwell’s 1984, the protagonist is an ordinary man by the name of Winston Smith. Throughout the novel, Winston struggles against the tyranny of Big Brother and the Party, both inwardly and eventually outwardly. However, by the novel’s end, Winston is discovered and broken by the Thought Police; his struggles are proven to be in vain. Still, despite his failure, Winston is undoubtedly the hero of the story. George Orwell’s definition of heroism is “ordinary people doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed,” and Winston fits all aspects of this definition to a T.…
George Orwell’s 1984 created a bleak utopian society that was far from ideal. Under the Party, led by the infamous Big Brother, the nation of Oceania was put into a complete totalitarian state. This gave Big Brother control of all things inside Oceania, including love and relationships in general. Within the novel, many relationships were built and introduced throughout the three sections, which as a result, were all affected by the rules and restrictions of Big Brother. The relationships forged in 1984 were all built around the authority figure, Big Brother.…
Vladimir Lenin once said, “One man with a gun can control 100 without one.” Control and power are all related to fear; if you can make people fear you, you can make people follow you. Having someone in power is usually a good thing because it lets people know there is someone looking out for them and everyone has a leader, but having someone unfit in power can cause a lot of problems with society and how people think, as well as many behavioral issues among the population. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, total control and power are very prominent themes, and the Party in the novel uses these things to create fear in the hearts of the people, which in turn makes everyone quite numb to everything that goes on in Oceania. Through restriction…
As human nature, we urge and need love and connection with others, in order to make ourselves feel valuable. However this emotion can get defeated by a higher power, i.e. an organization. Towards the end of the movie, Winston Smith loses this emotion. The outcome of it is tragic, and humanity is an emotion that should not be taken for granted, because we need it.…
Hate is an emotion that is meant to drive people towards a goal for themselves against others. Today, hate is something that is used to turn people against each other, spread by the media. In the novel “1984” by George Orwell, the society is almost completely based on hate and fear. However, the real world is more free to think for itself, instead of getting all information from a single source and letting the government tell it what is true and what is false. Some do believe everything they see, but most try to figure things out for themselves.…
The definition of an individual is a characteristic that distinguishes a person from others of the same kind. In 1984, by George Orwell, there is a lack of individuality in the citizens due to the control of the government. Since individuality would go against all of Orwell’s branches of ministry within the government, steps are taken to avoid it. Although there are singularity that arise within the community, it is fear that puts citizens back into what the government wants.…
George Orwell’s famous book on totalitarianism and control shows how the party’s ability to destroy relationships leads to a loss in one’s humanity. 1984 is set in one of the three major nations of this futuristic novel, Oceania. In this particular nation, every human relationship is suppressed and rid of love and affection. Sex is viewed as a dirty act, and is only used to create more Party members. Marriage is merely a legal bond and holds no emotional connection.…
Conform, conform, conform! This is the scream of all governments across the globe, regardless of what type. The dictatorship screams this demand at the top of their lungs for all to hear, while the democracy silently drills this chant into the minds of all their people. However, both types of governments have the same idea in mind; the ability to control and watch over the public in order to ensure that they always remain in power. In one aspect of his novel, 1984, George Orwell addresses this notion of conforming to the rules of the government by giving a thorough example of a totalitarian society and the methods in which it employs in order to successfully and completely control the masses.…
It states, “But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed with fear and hatred”(Orwell, 126). The foundation of hate is the fuel for the emotion of love, just as Winston and Julia's relationship and Big Brother and the his people. Winston and Julia’s relationship is based on their hate for the dictator. Just and Big Brother and the people, due to the hate of the Big Brother to the rebellion it establishes the relationship with the people.…
Orwell’s novel 1984 is a great piece of literature that should included in a list of works of high literary merit. Approximately six months before Orwell passed away, he published the novel 1984. This book is taking place in the near-future, or what is the past to us now, in 1984. Its set place is Oceania, which is a large area comprised of the Americas, Australia, England, and part of lower africa, in a city called London. England is also renamed to Air Strip One and is known as the “mainland.”…
The word family has a wide range of connotations and denotations, holding a different meaning to everyone. In the novel 1984 written in 1949 about a futuristic dystopia, the “average” family is not what one would consider to be a healthy or stable in modern society. Winston Smith, the main character, allows the reader to witness how the government has taken over society to give itself complete control of its citizens. Winston recognizes the destruction of family and the unwavering control of the government on its citizens, but Orwell leaves it to the readers to connect family values to the authority of the government. Without the “private, cohesive groups” normally provided by familial structure, the government has one less obstacle in their path to complete control of citizens (Blakemore).…