1984

In 1984, politics were frail and fixed with a spark. The government can either lead the world to be a nice better place, or the government can lead the world to be bad and bring it down and bring a train wreck with them. In the book 1984, the politics of the party have taken control of everything. There is only hope for those who will stand up and take a chance against the government. The free will is ended by history love being banned and not even one person getting privacy to themselves. I…

OUTLINE The purpose of my written task is to identify the proletarians as a marginalized, excluded and silenced group in the book 1984. The book was written by George Orwell, and published in 1949. The task refers to part 4, the studied literature part of the English Language and Literature course - Power and Privilege - and comprises of the various cultural, social and historical contexts belonging to the novel. While playing a relatively minor role in the novel, the proletarians (Proles)…

There are various characters who do not emerge at all in George Orwell’s 1984. Despite this, they still manage to affect the development and actions of the Oceania population in addition to the theme. Big Brother, the reputed ruler of the superstate Oceania, does not physically exist in the novel and there is no evidence for his mere existence. Nevertheless, the mention of his name will send the members of the Party into a state of euphoria. There are people who are exceptions to his influence,…

abuse of power. The Milgram sentiments about obedience are replicated in the Gorge Orwell dystopian novel, 1984, where people show great willingness to obey those in positions of power even when it goes against their ethical and moral convictions, and challenged by Erich Fromm, arguing that such obedience inhibits the growth and development of a society, ultimately leading to its demise. 1984 is a novel that tells of a dystopia, Airstrip one that is a province of Oceania. The political…

Intelligence contains lots of power, and it can deeply impact decisions made by individuals. In the novels “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley and “1984”by George Orwell, destruction is caused by knowledge when it is used for wrongful purposes. The destruction occurring in the individuals from these two novels result from changes in their personality, a lack of reflection in decision-making, experiencing misery following such unreflective decisions, and essentially, self-deception. As an…

This section of the story explores the extent to which humans naturally desire love, through the characters of Winston and Julia. The reader witnesses that humans are willing to risk everything to follow their natural desires. The second part of “1984” illustrates the Party’s tactic of suppressing natural human tendencies in order to maintain power over the people. The Party strives to keep its people ignorant and distracted so that they do not realize they are being used to promote the wealth…

I Wished It Was Over In A Blink Quite possibly the worst book I have read. This is coming from a girl who reads over a 100 books a year for the last six years that makes this serious. Malcolm Gladwell’s writing in this book was boring; there was nothing to break up the never ending word vomit. In the book it says the two main concepts are judgment and understanding, which I see it may be a wonky route to get there, and I may have had to pull over multiple times for a nap. However, I got what…

In Orwell’s dystopian society, the telescreen is symbol of the governments omnipresence in the lives of the citizens of Oceania. Orwell anticipated a society in which the government would never allow trust of its citizens, thus revealing the telescreen in the first chapter as stated, “[t]he instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (Orwell, 1949, p.4). The telescreen’s presence in the novel is not to control the society but to…

Oceania, a dystopian society plagued by an unrelenting paranoia placed upon them by the Inner Party. With a variety of unorthodox methods, this “paranoia” is created and allows the Party to completely control its people. Their methods include psychological manipulation and physical control. A torrent of political propaganda spews from the telescreens at every waking moment. This information includes embellished victories of the Party and many other faked events. All the incoming information is…

Winston comes across his glass paperweight in an antique store he visits whilst looking for knowledge among the proles. According to the store’s owner the object is at least a hundred years old, which gives Winston a sense of connection to the past. For Winston, the paperweight is symbolic of the history he is deprived of, and he buys it in an attempt to discover said history. Winston is also convinced to buy the paperweight due to “its apparent uselessness” (99). An item bought purely out of…