What Is The Moral Of The Book 1984 By George Orwell

George Orwell was born in India because his father was a civil servant. A year after his birth George’s mom had decided to take the children back to England while his father worked in India. George did not see much of his father when he was a kid. He was a feeble child when growing up, constantly dealing with bronchitis and the flu. George was an avid writer, writing his first poem at only the age of four. When he wrote the book, he was envisioning an extremely oppressive future where your whole life is controlled by the government. There are shows like Star Trek where it envisions the future as something where everyone is capable of getting along with one another no matter what they are. The disparities of these two predictions are gargantuan.
The book 1984 was George Orwell’s prophecy of what the future would be like. In this book, he uses a …show more content…
That issue is Peer Pressure. In the book, Winston the protagonist is accused of committing thought crimes. After the constant beatings and torturing, O’Brian an inner party member, takes him and asks him questions. Whenever Winston answers the question incorrectly, he endures immense pain in order to break him down and manipulate him into thinking the party is the best and that he should do what it asks without question. This is so no person can actively state the crimes that the government commits. Of course, this is an extreme exaggeration of the topic of peer pressure, but the concept is the same. He was forced to believe in the party by extreme means, but for a real life example, kids everyday are being bullied into doing things that on their own terms would have never done. These activities include smoking, drinking, taking pills, smoking marijuana, and doing high levels of narcotics. According to Drug Testing Network Inc. 63% of all the rap songs state that doing drugs and violent behavior is