Oceania

rather than by the person’s real name. Then they created a language called Newspeak that limited the amount of words in the language. Finally the government changed the history of the country and never allowed its citizens to know the real history of Oceania. The government is dehumanizing its citizens because they want to ensure they have total control over the people without the citizens knowing what is really happening. Orwell wrote this book to explain to people that humans are not supposed…

In Orwell’s 1984 the country of Oceania privacy is non-existing. Everything is monitored either by cameras inside "telescreens" or hidden microphones used to control Anti-Party actions. This is similar to America's government, in today's society, everyone is subject to the possibility of being spied on by the government through the vast amount of cameras we face in our everyday lives. But how are we supposed to acknowledge this to be a problem when we are so willingly and blindly contributing to…

In the book, the citizens of Oceania are separated into three sections of people. The classes of people from the least to the most important are the Proles, Outer Party, and the Inner Party. The Inner Party is the highest group of people in Oceania.The Inner Party is often called Big…

While this task is far from insurmountable in today’s world, in the world of 1984, it would be a great deal more difficult. In Oceania, things that are pleasurable are forbidden and are considered dangerous. Winston is luck y enough to stumble upon a glass paperweight in a small shop in the prole district. The paperweight is something that Winston finds extremely beautiful, but doesn’t…

Loyalty is an admirable trait for any person or character to have. Unfortunately, some take advantage of that loyalty and exploit it for their own selfish gain. The Party is a group which uses the unconditional support of the people of Oceania in the dystopian novel 1984. The novel, written by George Orwell, follows the life of Winston Smith and his struggle to accept the reality of his society. In a world where ignorance and fierce loyalty control the thoughts and actions of Oceania’s people,…

George Orwell’s 1984 created a bleak utopian society that was far from ideal. Under the Party, led by the infamous Big Brother, the nation of Oceania was put into a complete totalitarian state. This gave Big Brother control of all things inside Oceania, including love and relationships in general. Within the novel, many relationships were built and introduced throughout the three sections, which as a result, were all affected by the rules and restrictions of Big Brother. The relationships…

illustrates a society that has gone too far in its distribution of powers. The totalitarian aspect of the novel and complete omniscience of the government seemingly hold a haunting message to any future society. However, was the Orwellian account of Oceania simply a message or was it a reminder? The extreme intervention and interference of a government in all human affairs and activities leads to undesirable supremacy. Specifically, Oceania’s government hardly ever used brute force in public as…

The official language of Oceania, Newspeak, aims to reduce the amount of Thought Crimes. The Party “destroy[s] words--scores of them, hundreds of them everyday” (Orwell 51) in attempt “to narrow the range of thought” (Orwell 52). Because of Newspeak, the inhabitants of Oceania lack an advanced vocabulary that would allow them to create independent thoughts and ideas directed toward uniting against the…

Hero Within the first few pages of George Orwell’s 1984, one can determine that this is not a normal place by any means. One’s mind starts to paint the scene of a cold, dark, and gloomy place where a uniform society exists. At first, this so-called Oceania, seems very distant with no current relations to the world we live in today, but the one constant within the two is what it means to be a hero. Overtime the concept of a hero hasn’t changed in itself, but the deeds people do to claim the…

how in Oceania, Big Brother has total control over anybody and everything. People did not know that this was going to be the future of our society today. Our government has full control over us, they know where we go during the day and know how long we stay there. They keep an eye on us during every minute of the day which causes our privacy to be violated. Throughout this essay you will be reading about how our privacy is being infringed by the government. In 1984, the party of Oceania…