Oceania

Winston is being questioned and tortured, O’Brien mentions that the Party controls what is real. This is a true statement because reality only exists in the minds of those who believe it. As the Party continues to provide information to the people of Oceania and simultaneously destroy proof of previous truths, that information becomes accepted facts. Since no one dares question the Party for fear of being…

The novel 1984 is a dystopian book that follows the life of Winston, one of the middle class citizens living in Oceania. Oceania is controlled by Big Brother, who spies on the people and eliminates all personal privacy. Winston wants to escape the oppressive forces of Big Brother’s totalitarian government. Oppression pushes people to do whatever it takes to get their freedom. An example of fighting for freedom and the dissolution of oppression in 1984 is when Julia causes a commotion in the…

1984 is a book about a man named Winston who lives in a society where you are constantly watched, much of the news is lies and you are constantly at war. Winston knows that anything the government tells him is a lie and that the war Oceania, the country Winston lives in, is constantly fighting is pointless. Winston later on meets a girl named Julia who he at first hates, but as she shows that she also sees the lies Winston comes to love her and they join a secret group called The Brotherhood…

government suppressing the citizens of Oceania in 1984 can be observed as a more prominent threat, the violent society and unfit leaders in The Lord of the Flies were far more toxic. Winston craved rebellion from Big Brother, Oceania's un-big-brother-like government for all of the right reasons. An oppressive state legalized torture and children were taught to spy…

One of the main themes of the novel is power of the government. This theme is visible is the totalitarianism of the government in Oceania. In Oceania the Party rules everything in the daily lives of the citizens. It is clear throughout the whole novel that the power that the Party has is unlimited. The leader of the Party, known only by the name Big Brother, can be found everywhere almost as a way to remind the people of who has all the power in their society. They constantly monitor their…

George Orwell, a prestigious British writer circa 1940, published a couple works centered around dystopian/utopian universes and societies. Arguably his most famous work was a fictitious novel titled 1984, which revolved around government controlled Oceania in the near-future. Dystopian literature typically has many common themes and elements involving: oppression, conformity, rebellion, and many others. Consequently this renders the question of: is George Orwell’s 1984 a form of dystopian…

Imagine a world in which everything is complete and utter dystopia. A world where most people hardly have any emotions or the mental capacity to think on their own and for themselves.”1984” by George Orwell is about this exact scenario, in which one man can see through the system which the government has set up. The government, also known as “Big Brother” controls everything which the people see. Big Brother writes and alters history for people to know, and also leads a brutal force called the…

order. A totalitarian regime establishes control through its degree of power. The novel is in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation dictated by a political system that persecutes individualism. In Oceania, freedoms and individuality are crushed under the power of the government. Orwell’s representation of a dystopia mirrors the perfect totalitarian state. Orwell glimpses into the future where The Party, the fictional government system, is…

become an overpowering presence in their lives. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, The Party/government fears rebellion, therefore, it strives to know every aspect of the citizens of Oceania 's lives, and it tries to seem omniscient in the eyes of the citizens. The Party places telescreens in every room throughout Oceania as a means to spy on the citizens 24/7. If a citizen is caught saying anything against the government there are arrested by the thought police and are forced to face torture…

Imagine being constantly watched. Everything you do, from the words you speak and places you go, to the thoughts you think, are constantly being documented, inspected, and analyzed. This was daily life for the characters in the dystopian society of Oceania. The level of surveillance portrayed in George Orwell’s novel 1984, is not as extreme and far off from our daily lives in 2018 as the reader may think. Surveillance levels in the world today are on the fast track to those in 1984. In today’s…