Social Issues In 1984

1984 is a dystopian fiction written about the future, the author is trying to warn the readers to speak their mind on social issues. This book warns people, what would happen if they were to stay quiet about what is happening around them. George Orwell, creates a fictional world to discuss social problems and critique them. In this novel the people choose to deflect their ability to think, and thus brings into form this controlling force of Oceania. The party members controls the people, 85% of their population are workers, and the party members are divided into two groups; the inner party members and outer party members. Big Brother is their leader, and Emmanuel Goldstein is the enemy of the party and the people. They are always monitored …show more content…
The party’s success is unlike any other powers before them. In the novel Orwell states, “the people before them founded the nation on love, compassion and Justice but, Oceania is founded upon fear, hatred, rage, triumph, and self- abasement” (220). Their goal is to become more merciless and less humane over time. The party is creating a place filled with people who can do anything whether it’s good or bad, they are creating a group of people who doesn’t think, and would follow anything and everything the party wants them to do. They are founded upon their loyalty towards Big Brother, they love him and thinks he will never fail. Orwell is trying to tell us that, when a person lose compassion and love and other emotions that make us human, we become unintelligent, incapable of thoughts. This leads us to be controlled by others like the party, followed by the lack of personal freedom and being under constant surveillance by the thought …show more content…
Through his novel he urges people to think for themselves, rely on their instincts and what they believe in, not what others prompts them to. Compassion, love and justice are the things that makes people human, and staying human means to stay sane. He reminds his readers, that knowledge, power and freedom are connected. The more power the party have, the less freedom and knowledge the citizens will have. Even when the citizens life is controlled by the party in every way possible, there is still hope, because there are more working citizens than there are controlling forces. If they put their mind to it, they can rebel and overthrow the party, they just have to realize that they need a