Nineteen Eighty-Four

What it Means to Exist in 1984 During the totalitarian reign of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, a beacon of hope for the English, declared in a speech to his people that “all the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope” (Winston Churchill). George Orwell was inspired by this period of terror to write 1984, which explores the capabilities of a totalitarian society in our world. Under the rule of the…

Oppression in Dystopias In a dystopian society, the common people are abused of their human rights by a corrupt government that oppresses every aspect of their lives. People are persuaded to support or forced to rebel. In George Orwell’s novel 1984; the protagonist Winston tries to rebel against his oppressive government in Oceania, but fails and ironically becomes fully loyal. Differently, in Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale the main character, Offred, lives in a post-apocalyptic…

Big Brother Is Watching You Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world where you have no privacy whatsoever? Or live in a world where you are being controlled by the government? In the novel Nineteen Eighty Four, written by George Orwell, Orwell talks about Winston Smith, a party member, who has no freedom to do anything because “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 2). The government, or in this case Big Brother, uses many philosophical tools to manipulate party members…

The Road to Wigan Pier is a journalistic book written by English author George Orwell in 1937. Originally written for Victor Gollancz from the far-left publishing group the Left Book Club, Orwell’s book would later be regarded as one of the blueprints for modern investigative journalism. As a journalistic piece, The Road to Wigan Pier is a book intending to inform its readers. Historically, however, this book functions as a documentary of the British working-class conditions in the mid to late…

The world we live in is far from perfect. Societies are constantly rising and falling, because the perfect government has not yet been discovered. It is nearly impossible to appease every citizen in a society, though many leaders have attempted to do so in the past. A strong government must have complete control and a way to catch every curveball thrown at it. The falling of a society is usually due to elements that the government cannot control. There is one government so far in which all…

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The notion of the government being omnipotent alarms people of all ages, recalling Communist years, and various other occurrences of absolutism. George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, encompasses a futuristic totalitarian state under the control of “Big Brother.” Warnings to the Western world delineating possible despotism, remain prominent throughout characters. The protagonist, Winston Smith, works at a propaganda department for the state, labeled the “Ministry of Truth,” where inopportune…

watch out over his citizens. There is also no doubt that Orwell had a feeling that people were going to view his book in a particular way. New Statesman wrote in one of his articles, “after the reception of Animal Farm, and with the direction Nineteen Eighty-Four was taking, it must have been clear to him…

Joseph Campbell’s seventeen stages of the Hero’s Journey can be applied to any piece of literature, movie etc. In The Stranger, Into the Wild, and Nineteen Eighty-Four the authors, Albert Camus,Jon Krakauer, write about characters’ adventures whether it is negative such as going against a certain set of rules or just simply straying from the normal way things are done in order to emphasize the different forms of adventure that can be experienced using the same concept. These novel’s protagonist…

in Paris and London ', published in 1933, Blair decided to take the pen name of George Orwell. Orwell continued to climb over a series of mountains to reach his fame in publication. Some of his most famous books include ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Nineteen eighty-four.’ Both of which he shows signs of his revolting thoughts against totalitarianism and other dictating governments. When writing he tends to stay very strict and to the point allowing the…