George Orwell's Totalitarian Government

Two Totalitarian Society In the book 1984, Orwell portrays a perfect totalitarian government. The Party forces the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all the words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is deemed to be illegal. This is called thoughtcrime, and it is the worst of all. These regulations are controlled by Big Brother, a figure that no one has ever seen. In fact, there is no proof that says Big Brother is even real, but the “thought” of questioning such matter could cause a citizen to be vaporized. Such harsh consequence results in understandable fear among the people living in this society. They are all controlled by the Party, which strives to ensure that laws are set in place to prohibit free thought, sex, and any expression of individuality. The Party bombards its subjects with psychological stimuli designed to overwhelm the mind’s capacity for independent thought. The giant telescreen in every citizen’s room blasts a constant …show more content…
Every year, each of the districts (but not the Capitol) is required to send one randomly selected boy and girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the media spectacle that is the Hunger Games. Each district is fighting for food, and murdered seems to be the only solution to their need. This society functions under fear because they are all constantly being controlled and watched, much like the society in Orwell’s 1984. Each home in the districts are required to have a tv screen that broadcast news, and live feed during the hunger games. The people cannot turn off the tv, and they cannot choose when to turn in on. This is all controlled by the government, who inflicts fear upon the people in each district, forcing them to obey the rules and laws that they live