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room. He was terrified, as well as the other Party prisoners in the room, who committed various “crimes”, most of them being a thoughtcrime. Winston then met multiple people who had seemingly done nothing wrong, from a starving man to a “big-boned” Prole women whom he briefly thought she might be his mother due to them having the same last name. (An indeterminable amount of time later). Winston woke…

The future is conquered by mysterious unknowns. In a world that lives in the present, the future's outcome holds the scariest time for change that will shape society either for better or for worse. George Orwell's novel, 1984, portrays a dystopian society managed by a totalitarian government that forces their ideologies on their people in a (mainly) psychological demeanor. Essentially, it is a novel that hints at a pessimistic future that will unravel, given contemporary of society's reliance…

George Orwell composed “1984”, a fictional story occurring in Oceania in the 1940s, after viewing the oppressive governments in Spain and Russia. Orwell’s manifest purpose behind publishing this novel was to warn the western countries of the perils presented along with totalitarian governments and to portray the conditions of subjects living under such regimes. The hidden knowledge given in this novel is that this world is going on the verge of losing their privacy and their opinions, even if…

The music of Brazil was formed from the mixture of European, African and indigenous elements, brought by Portuguese settlers, slaves and by the natives who inhabited the so-called New World. Other influences have been added throughout history, establishing a huge variety of musical styles. At the time of the discovery of Brazil, the Portuguese were amazed at the natives ' way of dressing and the way they made music: singing, dancing, playing instruments (rattles, flutes, drums). Brazilian music…

The practice of socialism has suffered major setbacks throughout the post-Stalin years of communism in the Soviet Union and other European countries. As a result of this social backlash, George Orwell depicts a dystopian society that represents a total domination of oligarchy, which has both eradicated the fundamental characteristics of democracy and abused basic human freedoms in his novel 1984. Orwell exposes the basic foundations of the socialist society and describes the downfall of…

Orwell and The Vision of 1984 When George Orwell finished his landmark novel 1984 he had lived a life that is difficult to compare. His first hand experiences with totalitarianism and imperialism culminated in one the best and wildly known dystopian novels. Though known primarily as a journalist during his life, his success is associated with 1984 (“Biography of George Orwell”). The story shows the reasons why this is true. It is difficult to read this book and not worry about what one…

there is the Inner Party who can turn off their screens, and also in that sort of middle class is the Outer party. This group has the least amount of rights as they are the more closely watched than any other group. The bottom of this system is the proles which surprisingly have the most freedom of any group. In this world both Winston and Julia are both members of the lowest party, but their relationship of the party are two totally different approaches. Winston is about all out rebellion. When…

In accordance with those of The Party, O’Brien’s view on justice is that every citizen of Oceania, whether in the Inner or Outer parties, or a prole, should basically do whatever Big Brother (BB) orders, and believe in whatever Big Brother says. This Party-based view on justice manifests itself at countless times throughout the novel, especially in the repetition of Winston’s resistance to believe…

No matter where someone was, or what they were doing, Big Brother was always lurking and reminding the people of who he was to keep them in check. He was Joseph Stalin, observing the lives of his citizens, controlling everything he could so no one could disrupt his plan. Oceania had to live assuming that every movement, sound, breath, that they made was being looked at, and it was (Orwell 3). When Winston was writing in his diary, which he had to acquire illegally because it is a place for…

People’s lives are boring maybe that’s why they like to imagine a different world inside their heads. But maybe as a professional writer, George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel 1984 to vent out the idea he had inside, which he wanted an outlet, and had the perfect medium to. For most of us, we always perceive the society as a “self-civilizing” process which would eventually lead us to a world with absolute justice. Philosophers in ancient Greek, Rome and China derived some early structures of…