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“Restrictions of a Totalitarian Society” What if our government kept complete control over our society and how we live our everyday lives? What if I told you that’s how it is today? In 1949, author George Orwell wrote a dystopian science-fictional novel about how the future of our society will be ran by a government who prevents all individualism on a private land known as Oceania. The fictitious idea of “Big Brother” is always watching you allows the party to preserve idea of ignorance with…

Published in 1948 and set thirty-six years in the future, 1984 is Orwell’s dark and dirty vision of the future. The novel is a depiction of how the power of the government could come to dominate the lives of their citizens. This satire shows how Winston Smith’s personality is wiped out and re-created in the Party’s image. In 1948, when the novel was written, World War II had just ended. Orwell’s experiences and feelings during and after the times of war are reflected and represented through…

To think that the telephone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell is mind-boggling, right? Today, in 2018, the technology is becoming so advanced that scientists are even creating artificial embryos. At the University of Cambridge in the UK, embryologists have developed mouse embryos using only stem cells (“You'll Want to Keep an Eye on These 10 Breakthrough Technologies This Year”). This is only one example of how technology has grown over the years. Unfortunately, as the sciences have…

Totalitarianism in George Orwell’s ‘’1984” What is totalitarianism? There are many theories about the totalitarian concept but we will mention only few concepts. The totalitarian concept has been useful term to typify a particular genre of contemporary regime in an age of mass democracy in which the population can be controlled by a variety of means, especially by terror. by Michael Curtis{Totalitarianism, Michael Curtis;2} Linda Cemak on her book…

One I disagree with the statement “there are no walls, there are no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind”, as the book 1984 shows so terrifyingly. George Orwell’s 1984 shows a world where people are indoctrinated in the language of Newspeak, where the citizens are simply unable to express concepts such as freedom—the limited selection of words limits the capability to do so. The process of thoughtcrime truly puts a lock on a person’s mind; it is the idea that certain thoughts are…

and maintain power. Winston, the protagonist, lives in the city of London in Oceania under an extremely authoritarian government that largely uses language as the main mechanism to achieve that goal. They use a different version of English called Newspeak, which is the controlled language created by the Party. It is engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thought. The words by which such thoughts might be articulated have been eliminated from the language leaving no space for…

He loved Big Brother could signify many themes that have gone on throughout the novel but the main one is that how much of our mind is actually ours. The mind is a wonderful thing and as Winston declares, "It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything - anything - but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you,"(166). The mind is the only thing Winston thought that the party could not get to. He was wrong. The party can access whatever they want whenever they…

Summary As Winston has lunch with Syme he realizes his intelligence will get him vaporized afterward, Winston has the feeling of being watched. Quote Analysis “One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The party does not like such people.” (Orwell 47) This quote adds to the theme as well as to the character's evolution in the book 1984 because the circumstances of the people who…

Totalitarian governors such as Hitler and Stalin inspired several artists, one of them being George Orwell, who lived through World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and got to see big changes happening in the world. The writer wrote numerous books exploring topics such as poverty, an individual’s role in society, and politics. One of his most famous books is 1984. This literary novel addresses the consequences of a totalitarian government. It shows a possible future for the world if it had…

1984 by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that was first published in 1949. The story was meant to serve as a prediction of the future and was Orwell’s way of warning against dictators and a totalitarian society. Totalitarianism is “a form of rule in which the government attempts to maintain 'total ' control over society, including all aspects of the public and private lives of its citizens” ("Totalitarianism”). The main character is Winston Smith and the book tells his story through a…