Oceania

the Party, the only political party allowed in Oceania. The situation Orwell describes is eerily similar to the one in Germany during the second world war. It seems that 1984 is meant to send out a message to make the public realise what exactly happened during the war, in order to prevent it from ever happening again. In this essay, I will analyze the main slogan of the Party and show how this slogan is used to manipulate the population of Oceania. The slogan is made up of three contradictory…

portrays in 1984 explains what life would be like in that very scenario. The people of Oceania are forbidden from showing emotions and having certain feelings such as love. They should have no type of facial expression for that would be a crime. Their thoughts are limited for thoughtcrime is punishable. In 1984, Orwell uses the aspect of feelings and emotions to show how the Party strips the people of Oceania of their natural instincts to keep order and control in a totalitarian society. 1984…

The novel 1984 written by George Orwell gives the reader a distinct view of a dystopian society. The government stated in the novel; is very controlling. It uses propaganda, and power to manipulate its people to believe what it wants them to believe. In general; nowadays, other governments have freedom in addition, fewer rules, and your own opinion. In other words, what they still show on the television, written in textbooks is most likely what they would believe. The novel shows a…

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 United States society named Gilead; she is oppressed of her personal life as she is…

George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India in 1903 during the time when the country was under British colonial rule. He moved to England when he was very young, but being born in India during such a hard time for India caused him family many issues so he grew up with a less than satisfactory childhood. His place of birth might explain why he kept England as itself in 1984 when he gave all the other countries different names for the new dystopian world he created. He…

the freedom of the past and reality, which is then manipulated by a higher power. To act upon this desire, the Party must use many different techniques to control their people. Thought manipulation serves as the key component of power control in Oceania as exhibited by the Thought Police, the Ministry of Truth, and the Party’s defiance of natural tendencies, for without control, the Party system…

Is the U.S. as free as most Americans think? Or, is the U.S. closer to Oceania, the dystopian country in the novel 1984? Is the privacy of homes really that private? Both 1984’s society and the modern societies have lots in common when it comes to surveillance. The U.S. government could be considered very similar to Big Brother (1984’s government) in that they can track citizens at any moment, have any information on any person with a few clicks of a button, and watch people who could be trouble…

The people of Oceania have zero control of their own lives and complete loss of privacy. The television screens and posters represent how they are always under surveillance. You’re not allowed to have your own thoughts because the Government insists that if a person even…

For instance, every couple years, the US seems to go to war for a different reason and with a different enemy. Oceania in 1984, "though strictly speaking it [was] not always the same war" had been “in one combination or another, [..] permanently at war” (33, 185). Furthermore, every couple of years, alliances shifted and Oceania was at war with someone else, only four years prior Oceania having been at peace with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia (34). In the same way, North Korea is always at…

because he followed along with Oceania’s goal. He didn’t fight back against the absurd rules of Oceania and therefore he couldn’t say that he wasn’t different from them. If he resisted following these rules then he could see himself as a driving force in ending them, even if it meant his outcome would be death. To keep this possibility of resistance down Oceania enforced isolation heavily. In Oceania “you did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades” who only partook in light hearted…