Nineteen Eighty-Four

The novel, 1984 by George Orwell, showcases the community Oceania through a hierarchy of three distinct classes: the Party, Outer Party, and Proles. The system this novel displays is an authoritarian government with the figurehead being Big Brother. The Party has the authority to make decisions on war, food rationing, surveillance, economic distribution, criminal trials, and many other policies through its accumulated power. However, this system has evolved into a dictatorship that requires…

In the novel 1984, many things resemble another dystopian society in another novel. The book reflects on how much the government controls the people and how much of the citizens’ lives and freedoms get stripped away from them. This type of society also shows up in The Giver written by Lois Lowry. Within this popular novel, just like 1984, the people cannot think or feel for themselves, cannot remember things from their past, are assigned jobs, as well as forced to speak different english. In…

George Orwell composed “1984”, a fictional story occurring in Oceania in the 1940s, after viewing the oppressive governments in Spain and Russia. Orwell’s manifest purpose behind publishing this novel was to warn the western countries of the perils presented along with totalitarian governments and to portray the conditions of subjects living under such regimes. The hidden knowledge given in this novel is that this world is going on the verge of losing their privacy and their opinions, even if…

ENG3U Guy Miller Compare & Contrast Essay Ms. Wener Monday, April 27th, 2015 “If you want a picture of The Future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.” (Orwell, 280) These are the chilling words uttered by O’Brien to Winston Smith towards the end of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984. This quote captures the brutality of Big Brother’s Party as the “boot” that strives to crush the human spirit. The State’s brutality is also apparent in the film V for Vendetta, in which…

Access to information is one of the most important resources to achieve a higher level of quality of education as well as personal and democratic aspects. However, when speaking of access to information is not only about a useful tool for use by those countries that aspire to improve their education level. Speak access to information is also reference to a fundamental right of every citizen. Part One and Part Two The Inner Party is the highest position in society they were those belonging to…

Literature is very important to society, it teaches us about the past and warns about the future. . George Orwell author of 1984 and Animal Farm, warned us about the future in these two books. They share drastic similarities in the way they show us a dark and oppressive possible future. While focusing on the oppressive governments of the future, the common aspects of both novels are: media use by the governments, the limited rights and freedoms of citizens, and the privileges that the governing…

For my summer reading book I chose to read George Orwell’s 1984. The reason I made that decision is because I have heard many great things about the novel and it’s a must-read. It contains suspense, drama, politics and a partial love story. It became one of my beyond favorites. George Orwell wrote the book as a futuristic novel showing what he thinks can happen once we reached the year 1984. As we know, nothing in the book actually happened when the world reached that year, but it was quite a…

The Stereotypical Role of Women in 1984 In Orwell’s novel 1984, Orwell writes about a bleak society where your own thoughts betray you. Everyone has their place under the seemingly omnipresent eye of Big Brother. Individualism is frowned upon, and everyone is told their role. Gender is a non-issue; traditional male and female roles are disregarded. The Party itself attempts to make ones own gender irrelevant, and strives to erase any form of bonding or familial units. Yet, despite this line of…

Brave New World v.s. 1984 Have you ever felt like nothing you did had a meaning? In these novels you will see how people living in these systems were brainwashed and had no actual feelings or emotion. The two novels are fairly different, but they address the same problems in their predicted futures. Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley and 1984 written by George Orwell are based on a class system that is not of the people’s choice but in 1984, the authority has more control of the system…

A person truly cannot feel safe while being ‘protected’ by a government that cares for only themselves. There has been a long history of governmental greed that harks back to even the creation of humans since greed has been in our hearts since the very beginning. The exceptionally blunt example is Orwell’s novel “1984”, a clear depiction of a government’s power being misused in favor of their own aspirations. Orwell wrote this novel to express a truth in government and to predict the future that…