Nineteen Eighty-Four

No one person truly thinks the exact same way, which is why there’s such diverse society’s throughout the world. The fact that 1984, a novel written in 1949 could have such accurate representation of a present day society like North Korea, shown in the documentary ‘The Propaganda Game”, seems impossible. It comes as a shock that two societies can be such a perfect simulacrum of each other. It brings up the question, “who truly thought of the ideals first and how do they compare?” When side by…

Totalitarianism is the absolute control of people by a government or person. Totalitarianism restricts freedom and liberty. Totalitarianism controls the people. It controls their actions, opinions, life, speech, and happiness. Totalitarianism is a form of slavery, but there is not much rebellion. North Korea, Nazi Germany, USSR is all totalitarian countries. They all repress and oppress rights, but rebellion is not prominent. Oceana and the Republic of Gilead are both fictional dystopian…

George Orwell, a pseudonym for communist Eric Blair, was a prominent, political writer in the post-World War II era who eminently opposed totalitarian states. In 1984, he fabricates a dystopian society where the citizens are desolated of their humanity and that of the individual does not exist. The novel takes place in Oceania in Airstrip One, where the Party and its leader, Big Brother, seek absolute power over these citizens. Consequently, the suppression of innate urges, encouraged through…

Ordinary people doing whatever they can to change social systems that do not respect human decency, even with the knowledge that they can’t possibly succeed a definition of heroism according to George Orwell. Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, takes action to go against Big Brother but fails to proceed any further before any action occurred. Winston does represent the characteristics that George Orwell describes as heroism even though he ended up loving Big Brother. He attempted to do…

Karl Marx once said, “If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all” (Marx). It may be true that Marxism can bring a more collective good; however, it is also true that many things are unbeneficial for the people living in the society. The novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell exemplify these unfavorable tendencies brought on by the Marxist theory.…

“Do you want to start out?” asks Fred Hiatt, an editor at the Washington Post. “No,” Trump replies, and then starts out. He reminds Hiatt that he’s been “treated very, very badly by the Washington Post,” but quickly moves on to talk about an upcoming press conference, or rather, the building that the conference would be held in. It’s owned by him, and after telling Hiatt about the high quality of marble that will be used once it’s finished, Trump concludes, “I know how to build. I know how to…

Horrible Government The book 1984 by George Orwell and the movie Divergent by are a great example of a dystopian society. A dystopian society is not the kind of place you dream of in a fairy tale. Dystopias are horrible places where there is a leader who tries to control their people with force and mind games. The definition of a dystopian society is an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid, because they are not treated fairly (Merriam-Webster). 1984 and Divergent are two…

In 2003, the New York Times wrote, “”Orwellian” itself, is the most widely used adjective derived from the name of a modern writer … It’s more common than ‘Kafkaesque,’ ‘Hemingwayesque’ and ‘Dickensian’ put together. It even noses out the rival political reproach ‘Machiavellian’, which had a 500-year head start.” We see and hear the term "Orwellian" used to describe ideas that George Orwell identified as being destructive to a free society. In much of his work, he emphasized control by…

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley explores the idea of complete government control. In Brave New World citizens are not made viviparously. Mothers and fathers are unheard of and family is unknown. Sex for reproduction instead of pleasure is absurd. Everything our societies founded on; religion, family and long lasting love is unknown of in Brave New World. The book begins with an introduction of the society starting with how humans are produced, the Bokanovsky Process. Then, brainwashed from…

Ronald Reagan once said the government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. In 1949 George Orwell was extremely disturbed by the potential state of the world with intense government involvement, and expressed his emotional disquiet through writing. In the novel 1984, Orwell portrays an all ruling totalitarian government to indicate that a modern day government similar to the communist and fascist regimes of his time with absolute power is a dismal possibility for the…