Proles

In George Orwell’s 1984, The government restricts the freedoms of the people, by controlling their thoughts to protect the reputation of the party. People are tortured, manipulated and enslaved to preserve the totalitarian party’s reputation. Would risking the basic population’s sense of security to keep the reputation of a dictator like party? In 1984, the people do not have the basic human right to think their own thoughts on the dictator like party in charge. People in Oceania are…

In Oceania, peer pressure is a vital element of society. Big Brother determines who everyone's peers are by splitting citizens up into the Inner Party, Outer Party, and the Proles. Big Brother also forbids any interactions between members of different peer groups. We see this peer pressure throughout the novel. There is peer pressure related to Two Minutes Hate because technically, citizens are not required to partake in Two Minutes Hate. However, everyone is forced to partake in it due to an…

Government control can be a major problem when it comes to the citizens freedom. the novel brave new world by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell, both show the amount of control and the lengths political leaders are willing to go through to stay in power. The government can be very manipulating of their citizens restating many of their thoughts and freedom. To maintain further power these leaders restrain sexuality. Governments oppress their citizens to stay in power. To begin in the…

Orwell to write about the Ministry of Peace which in fact base on wars, the Ministry of Truth deals with the disappearance of the past, Ministry of Love deals with torture, and how the Ministry of Plenty doesn’t explain the “eighty five per cent” are “proles” in starvation…

Flashback of the Great Depression The events during the Great Depression were very unbelieveable. Some of these events are related to the novel 1984. The characters reflect some of the major events in this tragic event in history and come to show its resemblance to the aspects of life in both. The Great Depression in America from around 1929 to 1939 was the longest lasting and extensive economic turning point in the history of the industrialized world (“The Great Depression”). The Depression…

ensure the oppression of the and ‘Proles’ by the ‘party’, influenced by the real world actions of the Nazi Party and Stalin. ‘Newspeak’ was captured through the black humour in the character Syme’s explanation “Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of though? . . . It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” The use of black humour is used to demonstrate the destruction of language via ‘Newspeak’ and oppression of the minds of the ‘Proles’ through the manipulation…

The novel begins in April of 1984 in Oceania, one of the three totalitarian superpowers in post World War II Europe. The story follows Winston Smith, a disillusioned Outer Party member employed as a records editor at the Ministry of Truth. One day after work, Winston begins writing his heretic thoughts about the Party in a journal. If discovered, this journal will result in Winston’s execution for having unorthodox thoughts about the Party. At work, Winston becomes curious about a brunette girl…

Another point Courtney pointed out was that surveillance in America is very similar to the topic of today with monitoring U.S citizens. With the advanced technology is our society we are able to track and monitor calls. The idea here, is to keep the Proles as distracted from their political conditions as possible. Another important similarity is the class system. With a miniscule percentage being wealthy, dwindling middle class and the rising poverty statues. In America today, the lower class…

Dr. Jekyll Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. I think that this is as accurate of an account as anyone could possibly give, given the circumstances. As you may have…

Most books usually convey a message to their audience. For example, many dystopian novels convey how not to govern, how not to behave as a society. Some of the novels are based on real events, real societies and governments that existed when the book was written, like communist regimes for instance. Two of the most famous dystopian novels are Animal Farm and 1984. Surely, these two books have a lot in common like how both books were set in England, written by George Orwell, and based on the…