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
