“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”, from the mind of Irish author Edmund Burke, exemplifies one of the arguments George Orwell makes in his novel. 1984 written by George Orwell in the year 1949 is a warning about a negative utopia and follows a writer by the name of Winston Smith and his encounters with a dictatorship that is trying to control every aspect of its citizen’s lives. George Orwell warns about a society in which the individual expression is replaced by the government and he is influenced by Communism and Stalinism. Orwell was writing his warning in London shortly after WWII while the country had two major fears: communism and Stalinism. Although communism and Stalinism are very similar, Stalinism is an over
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The first connection Orwell makes is when Winston is trying to think of a possible reason for why a man by the name of Withers, who was a known disgrace to the Party and its leader known as Big Brother. Winston’s first thought is identical to how Stalin treated his sub-ordinates, being Winston thinks Big Brother was only getting rid of a popular political opponent. Orwell clearly wants to reader to make a connection through Winston’s …show more content…
One western fear before 1984 was written was the Nazi’s, who used propaganda to help gain momentum to be elected into office and to gain support for Hitler’s ideas anti-Semitism and the Aryan race. The Party on the other hand goes further and starts to replace the language they teach and use throughout the country. While Winston is having a conversation with a friend by the name of Syme, Syme remarks the following about the new language known as newspeak, “… the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought… the range of consciousness always a little smaller … in fact there will be no thought.” (Orwell, 52-53). Syme starts to describe how the changing language will lead to the lack of an individual to think for themselves due to lack of ways to express thoughts the Party opposes. Which presents the perfect opportunity for the Party to control its people and every aspect of their
The first connection Orwell makes is when Winston is trying to think of a possible reason for why a man by the name of Withers, who was a known disgrace to the Party and its leader known as Big Brother. Winston’s first thought is identical to how Stalin treated his sub-ordinates, being Winston thinks Big Brother was only getting rid of a popular political opponent. Orwell clearly wants to reader to make a connection through Winston’s …show more content…
One western fear before 1984 was written was the Nazi’s, who used propaganda to help gain momentum to be elected into office and to gain support for Hitler’s ideas anti-Semitism and the Aryan race. The Party on the other hand goes further and starts to replace the language they teach and use throughout the country. While Winston is having a conversation with a friend by the name of Syme, Syme remarks the following about the new language known as newspeak, “… the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought… the range of consciousness always a little smaller … in fact there will be no thought.” (Orwell, 52-53). Syme starts to describe how the changing language will lead to the lack of an individual to think for themselves due to lack of ways to express thoughts the Party opposes. Which presents the perfect opportunity for the Party to control its people and every aspect of their