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…
Author Christopher Hitchens had once said that “the totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that 's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes” ("Totalitarian”). George Orwell’s novel, 1984, cautions the reader about the dangers of a totalitarian regime. The dystopian future that Orwell created in his novel shows the devastating effects on the people themselves. The people of Oceania lost their intelligence, independence, and even…
There Is No Such Thing as Privacy “It was even conceivable that they watched us all the time.” These are the words Winston Smith and all of Oceania had to live by. George Orwell’s 1984 warns us about totalitarian regimes. The government, Big Brother, abolishes the citizen’s freedom and their own personal privacy, and even into their personal thoughts. Consequently the nation is losing its patriotism and the government is representing that of an undemocratic leadership. The book portrays a…
complacent and close-minded people exist in this world, Big Brother will continue to be watching, and his vision will become clearer every day. Orwell sparks an interesting question in 1984 himself, “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?” (Orwell,…
The totalitarian government in the novel 1984 doesn’t mention the use of technology other than for military and surveillance in the novel. The government has no need for high end technology such as phones and the internet. The use of phones and the internet would be detrimental to keeping INGSOC in power. If the people in the novel had access to such technology, they would be able to talk to one another and possibly plan the downfall of the government. If INGSOC had allowed for the internet and…
A Dystopian Mother A reoccurring theme presented in The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, is how the setting takes place in a dystopian society. Dystopias have many characteristic that display how it is an undesirable world. Even though an insignificant character, Mrs. Everdeen, Katniss’s mother, plays an important role in the development of this theme. She advances many of our primary character’s relationship to a dystopia. Also, she connects too many of the characteristics of a dystopia, such…
As a society we define our heroes as people who have courage, the courage to stand up to an oppressing force and succeed. Yet, should we honor them even if they do not succeed. In George Orwell 's 1984, the main character Winston fights against the oppressing and omnipresent party to be able think freely. Throughout the book Winston struggles in a personal war against the party, meanwhile, society has lost this battle against the party. In the reader 's eyes Winston represents a beacon of hope…