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…
Dehumanization is a process that the Cambridge Dictionary defines as the deprivation of a person from their independent thought, the ability to be sympathetic, and the ability to exercise their natural rights (Cambridge English Dictionary). Within 1984, George Orwell uses the state of the country Oceania as a juxtaposition to reveal the devastating effects of authoritarian rules of government such as the totarialistic state of the Soviet Union in the 1900s under the reign of Stalin. Under the…
It’s loaded with thought-provoking sentences and plots. Orwell depicted a dystopian society, where rebellions are quashed instantly once spotted and voices of dissents are intolerable. We’ve been introduced to peculiar terms like thought crime. Ingsoc surveils its party members through a device called telescreen. Not so difficult when everyone’s under surveillance everywhere they are. Part One Reflections about my emotional feelings through my reading. First of all, I want to thank god that…
George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984, has gone through the ages as a novel depicting a bleak future with a government in complete control over its citizen’s actions and thoughts. The novel explores the actions of Winston Smith, a questioner of the established Party or Big Brother. He and his lover Julia, another ardent critic of the Party, try to join the underground Brotherhood, a group, led by Emmanuel Goldstein, trying to take down the party. They get caught and in the end, O’Brien, a…
the main character and protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith is surprisingly thoughtful and knowledgeable in the way he views life, unlike John of Brave New World. He finds small, somewhat insignificant ways to rebel against the main principles of Ingsoc as well as against the indifference of the cruel happenings in everyday life by writing in his journal and by partaking in salacious activities with a woman where…
Qini Yang Professor Sanders ENC 1102 5 December 2016 “Big Brother is Watching You” The book, 1984, written by George Orwell, which describes the people 's living conditions and social status in a highly centralized political system. “Any time power is centralized in a government — be it economic or political power — individual freedom diminishes” (Orwell ln 20). In 1984, George Orwell to convey his point of views on power by the…
“It may be horrible to be good,” the church pastor tells Alex in the novel A Clockwork Orange (Burgess 55). Dystopian writings typically follow this sentiment; a society promotes an all powerful government at the expense of the common people. After World War II, dystopian novels explored the possibility of instilling such dystopias in the cities affected by the war. George Orwell’s 1984 and Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange both portray London as a post-war dystopia; however, the authors’…
George Orwell’s 1984 is an oppressive world that drains the citizens that live under the INGSOC regime. The citizens of Oceania become repurposed by the Inner Party into tools that exist to perpetuate the class disparity between the Inner Party and the Proles. To summarize, sexuality’s importance to the narrative of 1984 concentrates on the dynamic thematic representations throughout the novel. This essay will highlight several examples of sexuality and sexual expression within 1984 and how…
Today, in the 21st century, countries such as North Korea and Cuba still operate under a totalitarian government, a single-party dictatorship that controls all aspects of public and private life. It manages the political, social, cultural, and economic aspects of life, along with any media and technology. George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian novel set in Oceania about how the protagonist, Winston Smith, loses his identity under the oppressive totalitarian regime of “Big Brother”. As a government…
he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front -- it made no difference. Whatever it was, you could be certain that every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc. As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a…