1984

world of what it may become by describing a plausible future dystopia in which there was little to no freedom. In 1984, George Orwell uses Winston Smith to portray how there will always be rebels who believe in a better government and a better society. Winston Smith exemplifies rebellion through his defiling of the government’s rules regarding love, intellect, and physicality. In 1984, Winston Smith discovers human instinct thanks to the proles.…

government and guarantees under The Bill of Rights the protection of the people. Without the protection of the Constitution, the people of the United States would find themselves in the same situation as illustrated by George Orwell in his novel 1984. 1984 describes Oceania, a society where the government, The Party, had total control over its citizens. In Oceania, the laws are made to hurt the people and protect the government. The people’s thoughts and actions are regulated, restricted and…

The novel “1984” by George Orwell, is about an individual named Winston Smith who is a low-ranked member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. The Party controls everything in Oceania and is led by an individual known as Big Brother. Diversity in Oceania is not tolerated, because every individual is expected to act the same and abide to the rules and regulations the Party established. When it comes to the United States Constitution, most of us will readily agree that it was…

Title: 1984 Author: George Orwell Main Characters (Protagonist/Antagonist), Title, & Traits: Winston Smith (Protagonist): 39 years old, goes against the Party but is consistently paranoid about being caught. Rebellious, intellectual, and sick (varicose veins), he resists the Party’s attempts to extract and destroy his uniqueness. He concerns himself with the “big picture” of society. He despises the party and speculates about what is, what has been, and what will be. Julia: Considerably…

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, people are living in the nation of Oceania, where their thinking and behavior are completely control by the ruling political party. Warning signs are posted everywhere in the nation with the words "Big Brother is watching you" (3), private houses are also equipped with electric eye and a microphone, even a cough cannot escape the eye of the Thought Police. Even writing a diary to record their ideas can cause one to be arrested and sentenced to death. This kind…

Do you ever feel like you're living 1984 all over again? Getting watched everywhere you go without you knowing. Like come on now why are they watching us on what we're doing when it's a free county. First of all, are technology today is so advanced that they are watching us do everything they can hack into your phone camera that they are watching you without you knowing. They also hear your conversations when you talk on the phone. People don't even know that. In the story there is a “big…

In the dystopian novel, 1984 by George Orwell the main character, a man named Winston Smith is coping with the many problems that are occurring in the city he resides in. This city is known as Oceania and is a place where a government’s Party is led by a power that oversees the entire city. A group of people known as Big Brother belittles the citizens by watching their every move and giving them little to no freedom. Therefore this is defying a ban on individuality but with all of the secrets…

History tells many stories, such as important events, victories, failures, and mistakes that should not be repeated. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, Winston Smith, a man who is 39 years old, lives in a totalitarian state called Oceania, where he is forced to erase the past from his memory and believe what he is told by an unjust leader named Big Brother. Similar to Winston’s situation, the Penn’s State football team was stripped of their past wins and forced to give up their future wins to their…

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and George Orwell’s 1984 are influenced by their contexts to a great extent. Lang and Orwell use their context to reinforce values and attitudes represented in their texts as to express a dystopian concern for the threat of a primary power within an accelerated industrial world. These concerns are explored through a direct threat individualism. Metropolis provides an optimistic view that not all hope is lost and change can be made, 1984 provides a pessimistic view that…

People are desensitized to suffering in George Orwell's 1984, so much so that society is cruel when it occurs. This normalized cruelty drives much of the plot- people are permanently vaporized and brutal acts of war are announced every day without anyone caring- while also indicating that the Party will always triumph in the end because society is shaped to be apathetic about the inhumanity of the world. The cruel indifference of the society is revealed fairly early on. After writing in his…