1984 A Dystopian Society

In a world where you get prosecuted for thinking something the government does not approve of, life can be scary. In the novel 1984, the citizens of Oceania live their lives oblivious to the world around them. From being under continuous surveillance by telescreens to the prohibition of speaking to the opposite gender, this novel serves as a warning to the people of the modern era. It gives an idea of what would happen to our future if people didn’t break free of societal norms. Orwell gives us a warning against a bleak, unfree future, a brainwashing government, and constant war.

A dystopian novel is a story relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. 1984 by George Orwell, is indeed a dystopian novel as it describes a nightmare vision of future society which is opposite to a perfect world. George Orwell creates this image using a few different techniques including, the language or style, the setting, characterization, and oppression.

In the texts 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the regulations and the restrictions imposed by the government leads to decline in the society. Technology plays a major role in both texts, the confidence of the people in these technologies eventually makes them surrender their humanness. In the novel 1984, the everyday lives of the people were monitored around-the-clock. Technology is also used to demolish the past, to make the citizens accept something divergent, a new present and the future. The central direction in the technological progress is not for promoting love between people or for the enlightenment of minds, but rather it is used for industrialization and for humanity to be the

A dystopia is an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. Referring to the definition, totalitarianism throughout 1984 demonstrates all elements of a dystopia. Big Brother instills fear in the minds of Oceanians to access all power and build their version of a utopia. Orwell faults the world of 1984 to show the protagonist, Winston Smith, is able to overcome all fears the Party instills in him and to find it in himself to rebel against the totalitarian government. Winston criticizes his society for being so driven by party ideology which encourages them to go through mental processes that confuse them with what is reality as to the Party’s version of reality (Becnel 74). The protagonist proves himself to be a misfit in the society of 1984 by not conforming to the party’s ideas as others would, diminishing the idea of individuality. George Orwell portrays a dystopian society through a rebellious protagonist’s hatred of totalitarianism to illustrate the idea of nonconformity in 1984.

In both novels, 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the impacts of living under radical levels of censorship and control are highlighted and indirectly scrutinized, in an allegorical manner. Written about are what these two authors believed could have become a possibility if humanity were to take a wrong turn and gives power to the wrong party and the negative influence it would have. The two books have many common ideas pertaining the methods of government that could lead to society’s demise such as the limitation of knowledge, manipulation of emotion and prompt elimination of any kind of rebels. Proven by the pair, is the ineffectiveness and possible downfall as a result of these irrational control tactics.

“Create. Sustain. Destroy. For each of these tasks, the Hindus have a different god. I master, all on my own. I created, but the world is not my witness and never will be.”(pg258, Dead Man, Erebos). 1984 is about Winston, who lives in a dystopian society under the command of Big Brother. In Winston’s world, there is nothing private; Big Brother knows everything. One day Winston decides that Big Brother is not a good cause and makes the decision to rebel. Erebos is about Nick Dunmore, who lives in the 21st century. He receives a video game that knows everything about him and forces him to do tasks that are not always the utmost desirable all for the goal of defeating the enemy Ortolan. These two dystopian worlds are controlled in similar ways with some differences still as well.

Dystopia in the U.S society? A dystopia is a place where everything is unpleasant and very bad. People are often afraid of their own government. 1984 written by George Orwell in 1944 describes what he believed was to come of the future. He described how the world was going to end in a dystopia.

Dystopian novels have become more common over the last century; each ranging from one extreme society to the next. A dystopia, “A futuristic, imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of a perfect society are maintained through corporate, bureaucratic, technological, moral, or totalitarian control,”[1] through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, criticizes about current trends, societal norms, or political systems. The society in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is divided in a caste system, in which humans are not individuals, do not have the opportunity to be individuals, and never experience true happiness. These characteristics of the reading point towards a well-structured

The dystopian society at the center of George Orwell’s 1984, although written years earlier, raises many challenges with freedom of speech and press. The novel mirrors numerous issues with the media that have arose today, and with remarkable accuracy, especially considering that Orwell wrote this novel during the the late 1940s. With the threat of Communism creeping towards America’s doorstep, Americans were focused on strengthening the government in order to withstand the Communist threat. As a result of sharp increases in governmental power that were “necessary” to defeat Communism, Orwell and many others began to see a vision of the future in which the government became so powerful that the freedoms of the people no longer existed.

George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 features characters being forced into submission via technology being used by a totalitarian government. The message portrayed in Orwell’s novel is a warning that we as a society are extremely reliant on machines and technology. Our reliance could lead to our demise, as shown in the novel. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, we are shown a dystopian society forced into acquiescence through the use of telescreens, mikes, music, and other items that reflect to events our modern society, implying that the novel, as a whole, is a warning to the future.

The book 1984 was written by George Orwell in 1948, the main theme of this book is social science fiction. A underlying theme is this book is a dystopian future: the social, economical, and political problems are issues that are lied about, prove this. When looking at the social aspect of life in 1984 all social groups are treated very different yet at the same time are all treated the same. In 1984 there is a very obvious hierarchal system; the top is The Inner Party, than The Outer Part, and on the bottom of the list are the proles. In Oceania this society strictly follows this, and does not deviate from these set rules of class. Each social group in 1984 are marginalized, excluded, and silenced, the way that this happens to

The perfect world has never existed nor will it ever. Someone persons view on something great could be another worst nightmare. In some cases people mistake utopias for dystopias. A utopia is an ideal place of state or living (“Utopia”). A dystopia is a society of characterized by human misery, a squalor, oppression, disease, or overcrowding (“Dystopia”). In George Orwell’s book 1984 the society is depicted as a utopia when in reality it’s not the perfect place, it’s written to represent a dystopia. It takes place in 1984 in a dystopian America where it’s actually called “Ocieana”. The book tries to make itself seem like a perfect society, using propaganda, and presented government. They would look like the perfect society to some people

The idea of perfection is different in the eyes of many, due to this complication: one man’s utopia can easily be a dystopia in the eyes of another. Utopias are a “heaven on Earth” society where everything is the way it is supposed to be with no wrongdoing ever occurring. On the other hand, a dystopia is a society with many of the same elements as a Utopia, but these elements are perceived as pessimistic. According to David Sick, author of Dystopia, “Dystopia is utopia's polarized mirror image. While utilizing many of the same concepts as utopia—for example, social stability created by authoritarian regimentation—dystopia reads these ideas pessimistically”(“Dystopia”). The idea of a perfect society can not withstand time,

It seems as though every time a society attempts to create a utopia, it has the opposite effect. 1984 is an example of an attempt at a utopian society that results in a place that is definitely not perfect. In most instances, a dystopia will be created when trying to make a utopia (Hough). There are multiple reasons as to why a utopia cannot work. Some of these reasons include resources and people in the society. George Orwell’s 1984, along with past governments, show that a utopia can never be truly created and that it will always turn into a dystopia.

What is the difference in a dystopian world and the world we live in today? There is a major difference in the two worlds. A dystopian is a place where almost every aspect of life is controlled and conceived. It refers to an imaginary society that is dehumanizing and displeasing. To even imagine living in that type of environment where everything that you think you know could be false is terrifying. To argue that 1984 is a dystopian world some characteristics could be, the restraint on free thought, the changing of history, the use of the telescreens used in everyone’s home and work environments, and the idea of the Party is worshipped by citizens through philosophical and corporate control..