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Sociological Ramification Literature has the ability to create any universe imaginable. There are no rules limiting stories to the reality of life. Otherwise, literature would be dull. Authors and writers have the ability to create a new world, or even predict the future. George Orwell, in his fiction novel 1984, predicts a dystopian, tyrannical future in the years following 1984. Written in the late 1940s, the novel discusses religion, government, military, gender roles, and family roles of…

Orwell illustrates how the fall of capitalist regimes leads to the implementation of governments that reflect totalitarianism and fascism. He is able to amplify this warning he is delivering to the audience by contrasting Oceania with Western Europe at the time Orwell was alive. One country that Orwell critiques in particular is London England. He paints this image to the readers by exaggerating the circumstances of the oppressed in society. Orwell creates a futuristic perversion of London…

These people are known as “netizens” and they are challenging China censoring the Internet by using words that sound or look similar to words that they censor. They are doing this so they do not become like the proles in 1984 where “the thing [they] invariably came back to was the impossibility of knowing what life before the revolution had really been like” (Orwell 72). This will be the fate of the people of China if they do not do anything about it and they are…

George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, a son of a British civil servant, was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, India and died on January 1, 1950 at the age of 47. He spent his first day in India where his father was stationed. A year after his birth, his mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England and settled in Henley-on-Thames. George Orwell was known as an English novelist, essayist, and critic in Great Britain. His work is marked by ordinary language,…

keeps the economy secure by rationing everything in society. The Ministry of Peace, the military branch of the government manipulates people to believe they are in a state of hardship and war, which is untrue. The common people are kept in line by the Proles, government workers who make up 85% of the population. Instead of using a checks and balances system, Oceania’s hierarchy is set up to gain complete power by manipulating its citizens through mind…

The notion of the government being omnipotent alarms people of all ages, recalling Communist years, and various other occurrences of absolutism. George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, encompasses a futuristic totalitarian state under the control of “Big Brother.” Warnings to the Western world delineating possible despotism, remain prominent throughout characters. The protagonist, Winston Smith, works at a propaganda department for the state, labeled the “Ministry of Truth,” where inopportune…

V for Vendetta and 1984 speak of a society similar to our own needs such as leadership, stability, and freedom from an autocratic government. In 1984, Winston Smith struggles under a dystopian government where the Party has complete control over society, with Big Brother monitoring even their thoughts. In V for Vendetta, London is under fascist rule of a dictator named Sutler who demands control over society, to the extent of using humans as a scientific experiment even if it resulted in their…

1984 by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that was first published in 1949. The story was meant to serve as a prediction of the future and was Orwell’s way of warning against dictators and a totalitarian society. Totalitarianism is “a form of rule in which the government attempts to maintain 'total ' control over society, including all aspects of the public and private lives of its citizens” ("Totalitarianism”). The main character is Winston Smith and the book tells his story through a…

The most significant lesson of a story is found in its ending. Children’s stories often give the impression that good always trumps evil, and as such, the hero always wins. The stories one encounters when they are older have more critical and realistic perspectives on certain situations. 1984 and Elysium are excellent examples of this. Both of the protagonists in these works are anti-heroes who struggle to fit in and thrive in their societies. They do not achieve their goals merely because they…

Orwell’s 1984, and Huxley’s Brave New World both present extremely intricate dystopian societies, and illustrate their respective author’s observations on certain human traits. The vast majority of people often overlook several of these observations. One observation exemplified by the novels is that human nature and behavior can be permanently altered by changing one’s environment. Furthermore, love is a major part of humanity, however humans can be influenced to the point that even love for…