Thought Police

1984 built upon a negative utopian picture ruled by a rocky totalitarian government with a main male protagonist, Winston. In the novel “1984”, by George Orwell, not only winston but also the whole party look down upon the proles as insignificant, like animals. While in reality the party is the most animalistic.. In the novel, the party have only limited telescreens and spies in the proles because they’re deemed as unimportant. The proles therefore are presented with the secular dish called…

Every human is born with rights that they will have until they perish. Some of the rights do not stay with them, the rights depend on the choices he or she makes throughout their life. In 1984, the author does not give humans many of those same rights that we take for granted, such as the freedom of privacy. Even the NSA watches over us in some aspects, we can do many things without other people noticing us. Orwell uses the Party taking away the citizens’ rights and freedoms to dehumanize them.…

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…

One reality is that personal space is not allowed in the novel 1984. Every person is being watched through the thought police , their peers and family , big brother ,and the party . the constant surveillance prevents a person from expressing themselves and society from acting as a whole. Winston, the main character , other characters and Oceania, where…

Transformation to a Dystopia With society’s advancements in technology, the leaders of America give the illusion of a national utopia, but in reality, America often resembles a real-life dystopia. A utopia is defined as “an ideal place or state where any visionary system of political or social perfection” (“utopia”). Whereas a dystopia is defined as “a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding” (“dystopia”). Leaders have a huge influence on the…

watched at any given moment”. To help enforce the party's laws and so people know they were being watched there was the thought police which monitored, search, find and arrest anyone who even thought about something that could disrupt the party's way of…

beginning of 1984, Winston actively but secretly disobeys the government’s laws. During the Two Minute Hate, Orwell claims, “Winston’s hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police” (14). Orwell’s words explicitly show that Winston differs from the rest of Oceania and must confront conflict with the tyrannical government…

Surveillance, restricted thought, and propaganda symbolize a few of the many dystopian traits portrayed throughout the nation of Eurasia. These traits are specifically depict to demonstrate the dystopian society. Within each and every home of the citizens one way telescreens are provided. The telescreens are high tech surveillance, in which they are observed at all times of the day, sustaining no acts of privacy. Surveillance is not the only trait, the citizens do not have the freedom to express…

everything is done for Big Brother. Thankfully for Mr. George Orwell, this vision he had never came to be. The world is run by different governments trying to coexist with each other and to live in happiness with one another. However, the ideas and thoughts behind !984 haven’t all gone away.…

The police have sworn to not look at any camera unless there is crime reported in the certain area and they need to see anyone who passed through those areas. Although impossible to see every camera known to man since that would just be impossible, but it is certain that anyone can look at any time and having that thought in your mind will think that you are being watched at any given time. 1984 is possibly predicting…