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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…

The world of American politics is a complicated, tricky system that can easily be manipulated and in the novel 1984 George Orwell shows what that world would look like if that manipulation was taken to an extreme. Theodore Roosevelt once said: “A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.” and in the fictional country of Oceania they did just that and then some. Oceania is governed by Big Brother who has complete control of everything that happens…

When reading historical novels one often gets quite bored with the repeating events, their fourth newly established artists have to find different ways to express events by enchanting their viewers. Within Yann Martel's novel “Beatrice and Virgil”, Yann, expresses an interesting image by feeding on the human emotions to express the turmoils faced throughout history. By hiding hideous events faced by people through his art Yann is able to capture people's interest and convey his ideas. For many…

After reading George Orwell’s 1984, I couldn’t help but see the similarities between the government in Orwell’s story and Trump’s America. In the story the main character Winston Smith lives in a society that is under totalitarian rule, the people are constantly monitored by one another and have basically been brainwashed to worship Big Brother. Individuality and creativity are non existent in this society, personal beliefs and communication are controlled by the inner group who are the elite…

In “1984” by George Orwell, the main character, Winston, is being tortured for being unloyal to the party. The head of the Ministry of Love, O’Brien, tells Winston the overall objective of the party. The party’s ultimate goal is dehumanization so that they have total control of the people. This goal is established through a condescending diction, repetition, and imagery. Condescending diction establishes the need for superiority. The citizens of the society have to be “suffering” and…

What are the differences and similarities between the elimination of privacy in oceania and in our society today? 1984 written by George Orwells in 1984 is about states surveillance. The main character of 1984 was Winston. He worked for the minister of the truth and changed documents. Winston made propaganda for governments employer. The party who had the power was the big brother. Nothing could be hidden from big brother. Everything you did were watching by big brother. They said big brother…

George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian novel written in 1949 to warn society about the dangers of communism. In a country where the only political mechanism is the Party, run by Big Brother, the population is constantly monitored through the use of telescreens, and all opponents of the Party virtually disappear. Due to his fatalistic nature, the protagonist Winston Smith lives in constant fear of being vaporized by the Party, but this does not stop him from having unorthodox ideas about politics…

The definition of dystopian society is described as a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding ("Dictionary.com - The World's Favorite”). This society is a very prominent in both story lines of 1984 and Divergent. Although our society today is nowhere near the ones in 1984 and Divergent, there are similarities. The book 1984 was written by a man who predicted what he thought the future world would be like. His prediction was a dark world where…

Vladimir Lenin once said, “One man with a gun can control 100 without one.” Control and power are all related to fear; if you can make people fear you, you can make people follow you. Having someone in power is usually a good thing because it lets people know there is someone looking out for them and everyone has a leader, but having someone unfit in power can cause a lot of problems with society and how people think, as well as many behavioral issues among the population. In George Orwell’s…

It has been shown that the novel, 1984, shows the hardship of living under the totalitarian rule of the Party. George Orwell wants to demonstrate to the people of Oceania that they are too blinded to realize that the government are actually taking control of their lives. They are too busy worshipping their beliefs and think that the Party can help their society prosper. But in return, the Party is actually playing the people’s mind to follow their views. As you see the Party uses propaganda and…