George Orwell

To be honest, I’m having a hard time writing this paper. There’s a lot going on in my life, as you know, so my mind is somewhere else, but I’m going to try my best. “BIG BROTHER”, OOPS, I MEAN HITLER, IS WATCHING YOU! I read “1984” by George Orwell my senior year of high school, I didn’t really retain much of the book honestly; mainly because I was a dumb teenager and spent my class time so stoned Cheech and Chong would envy. (Lets hope I don’t get in trouble for writing this, but hey I’ll…

The third part of the novel “1984” by George Orwell solidifies the Party’s main purpose to seek power. The Party employed various tools and tactics to control the people and to force its will upon everyone. Throughout the novel the Party uses propaganda, regulations, and verbal enforcement to enforce their power, but in this part of the novel the Party shows their physically and emotionally torturous tactics that can break a human to the point that they completely change in every way humanly…

In the book 1984, George Orwell warns that if the government is allowed to become too powerful people will lose all freedom and rights. When the government controls everything, people cannot oppose it. No one can rise up and overthrow the government, because they don’t know enough to want to overthrow the government. The world today is becoming more and more like the world George Orwell warns about in 1984. The government can monitor everything people send and post on social media. Furthermore,…

A dystopia in which even the most minute details of human life are monitored by the government entraps Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984. Such a society seems so distant and impossible, yet instills a degree of discomfort in modern-day readers. With the current rate at which technology is advancing, many realities in Winston’s world are quickly becoming realities in the everyday lives of today. Constant surveillance is an undeniable violation of privacy globally and a Constitutional…

What can be done against a threat that constitutes your entire world? The answer is to rebel in any way possible. In the book 1984 written by George Orwell, the main characters are in a constant struggle against Big Brother, and the party itself. They rebel in different ways to fit their personalities throughout the book. They each take to rebellion in their own way with the same goal in mind, to withstand the Party. Although it might seem like their rebellions are not effective, one might argue…

the author warns us to be conscientious of the control that the government has over the lives of its citizens, and without resentment from the masses, the government will become an overpowering presence in their lives. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, The Party/government fears rebellion, therefore, it strives to know every aspect of the citizens of Oceania 's lives, and it tries to seem omniscient in the eyes of the citizens. The Party places telescreens in every room throughout Oceania as…

George Orwell’s Purpose for Writing 1984 Imagine a future where one would not only have to be wary of what they say or do but what they think as well. George Orwell’s book, 1984, serves as a warning to the people of the Red Scare, Nazi Germany, and pretty much the whole world. Through 1984, it is constantly shown that the government has too much power which is why the lives of its citizens are they way they are, full of fear. Orwell’s purpose is to warn his readers of the dangers of letting a…

and movement whilst degrading that person of their moral codes and basic rights. In order to manipulate a large group of people, you need one simple emotion; fear. George Orwell’s novel 1984 depicts a society where an entire country of people is being controlled by “The Party” using fear to scare them into doing what they are told (Orwell). During the time this novel was being written, a major political party was coming into control in Germany. This party was the Nazis, and they used the same…

with their lives by giving them things that satisfy them in their lives.“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds” (Orwell 71). Orwell is stating that the Proles constantly conform to the society and continue to live their lives happily with the things they are satisfied with. They don't realize the corruption of their leader Big Brother and how the utopian world that he…

yapped a piercing female voice. “Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!” … “Take your time, by me. One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! Come on, comrades; put a bit of life into it! One, two, three, four!” (Orwell 31-32). The Party also tortures the citizens if they do not obey the Party’s rules. “Winston is tortured in jail-known as the Ministry of Love- for an interminable length of time… One last hurdle remains: Winston must come to love Big Brother,…