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George Orwell’s novel 1984 is about a highly oppressive authoritarian regime that controls the actions and thoughts of the people. This novel led to the term Orwellian, which describes the government in the novel. The word Orwellian has become synonymous with authoritarian, however, Orwellian does not mean the oppressive rule of people. The word authoritarian only encompasses an oppressive government with all power, but does not encompass all the qualities in an Orwellian government. Orwellian…

such ignorance plays out in Oceania is the Proles, who live a simple life, happy with their government and ignorant of the terrible state of their society. Winston, at first, thinks that the Proles could be the secret to overthrowing to overthrowing Big Brother, as they constitute 85% of the population. However, over time, he…

1984, George Orwell, an novelist and journalist, who’s dystopian novel portrays a government that controls all aspects of people’s lives. They use a variety methods to keep their citizens in control and Winston Smith is one of the people who challenges them. Orwell’s use of repetition, imagery and symbolism to create suspense in order to capture his audience’s attention throughout the novel. First, Orwell uses repetition in order to emphasize that the telescreen still holds power over everyone.…

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984 1984, by George Orwell is a book written in 1949, set 35 years into the future, that attempted to show what life would have looked like in a world in evil and chaos. The government stayed in power by using violence and force, by rewriting history everyday, distorting the truth and brainwashing the people to venality. Many people argue that the genre of 1984 is science fiction, but…

some hope of escaping!” Kelly yelled. “By the next few day, all the slaves knew about the underground railroad. Many suggested hanging up gourds to tell everyone when it was safe to leave. The song Follow the Drinking Gourd told us to follow the big dipper, which pointed north, to freedom. We would sing: ‘If you follow the Drinking Gourd. The riverbank makes a very good…

Inner Party members (Trump) in charge, the world would be doomed, making it a dystopian era. Oppression, long unjust cruel punishment is exposed all over this novel. The author George Orwell practices symbolism to portray the loss of privacy, meaning Big Brother, the Teleprompters, Thought Police. Having someone listen in to you every second of the day is basically having to give up your right to privacy. This is torture to the people because they could think one thing but mean something…

committing “thought crimes,” it is clear that institutionalized fear works to empower Big Brother by using party members own subconsciouses’ against themselves; a tactic which shows how the psychological impact of a surveillance state is just as, or even more effective than any physical enforcement effort to suppress the free-will of party members. With this in mind, Winston’s resistance experiment against Big Brother is one that not only seeks to test the limits of party supervision of his body…

Through his writing of 1984, George Orwell crafted one of the most impactful commentaries on totalitarianism in literature. Containing ominous passages of a post-war dystopia, much of his work acts more effectively as a warning than a fictional story. Purposefully avoiding any particular political party to comment on, Orwell’s main focus is that The Party can maintain power through its methods of restricting free thought. Winston Smith, the protagonist, faces an internalized struggle with…

Winston’s ending is shocking and interesting. The Party focuses on fixing its people rather than disposing of them. Winston craved to be something other than another droid the brainwashed population. His craving was his undoing. While off finagling with Julia, Winston’s confidence in the Brotherhood and rebellion grew. His unabridged trust for strangers led to Winston’s capture and symbolic death. The Ministry of Peace and O’Brien destroyed any piece of Winston that craved to be different or…

The dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell depicts a totalitarian society under which language has enormous power and influence. Language is used for propaganda such as the Party slogan, ‘War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength’ as well as for the manipulation and control of thought. The Party creates its own language, newspeak, which is ‘the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year’. Destroying language and reducing the number…