1984 By George Orwell Analysis

Following World War Two, Europe was thrown into chaos and despair. The major world countries, such as the Soviet Union and America, were still suffering from the wide spread fear caused by Hitler and fascism. From this fear, George Orwell’s 1984 was born. It served as a warning to where he feared the world’s leading countries were headed, and the dystopian that he fretted would become a reality. While the party may have held total dominance, it would not be able to control human nature forever. In George Orwell’s 1984, he posits through Winston’s observations of the proletariat that while one individual would not be able to overpower the party, the collective group would.

The fictional novel, 1984 by George Orwell is about a world run by a totalitarian government, called the Party, which takes away all the freedoms of its citizens by watching over them with high surveillance technology. In addition, the Party uses dishonesty and betrayal to expose people’s true feelings of Oceania, the country where the story takes place. Betrayal is seen throughout society in Oceania through government manipulation and actions made by Winston, Julia and O’Brien, the main characters. Winston’s true self-betrayal comes when he realizes his new passionate love for Big Brother, the leader of the Party and Oceania. The Party fears a rebellion against them, as a result they use different methods to eliminate trust between

In “1984”, Winston is a normal staff working for the “big brother” and his job is to change the history in order to change people’s mind. For example, if the government says there will be two chocolates per a person instead of three chocolates. Then all the news and old news need to change to two chocolates per a person, like three chocolates per a person was never happend. Also, in this novel Winston gets catched by being with Julia, after they caught him they tortured him and make him admit that 2+2=5 not 4. “He wrote first in large clumsy capitals ‘FREEDOM IS SLAVERY’ Then almost without a pause he wrote beneath it: ‘TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE’. He wrote ‘GOD IS POWER.’ He accepted everything.”(pg. 277) He tried to fight against the party after he got a book that’s against totalitarian but after all the torture and brainwash he starts to feel he could not fight the party any longer. So that shows how Big Brother

There’s no doubt that they have ultimate power, but they are constantly being betrayed by their own people. O’Brien says, “We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them” (2, 253). This is proven while we read Winston’s reintegration, but a question still burns in our minds. How many enemies does Big Brother have, and how many of these enemies are Party members? If Big Brother is so efficient, why is its greatest enemy its own people? Take Julia for example; in the book, it’s shown that she has been having relations with Party Members since she was 16. In 1984, she she is now 27. She also say that she has had relationships with Party members “Hundreds of times— well scores of times, anyway.” That is eleven years of Julia sneaking around right under Big Brother and Inner Party members’ noses. Because there is the breaking of rules on both sides of the Party, it is easy to see how rules can be ignored or broken when it suits them. Because Big Brother can be easily deceived by Julia, it proves that they are

A society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death, the government does not think of the common good by which all of the society will benefit, and the leaders are self-serving. Big Brother doesn't need to justify its ways because it holds all of the power in society through its ministries. In the novel, 1984 by George Orwell, there is one theme that stands out the most from the point of view from Winston, the main theme of the book is that government’s intentions are not benevolent, but self-serving this is show through government control, population control, and

The hate towards Big Brother prevents people to challenge the Party due to fear. Since it is mandatory to participate in the Party’s tradition called Two Minutes Hate, people gather around their TV screens every day to direct their hatred at the enemy of the State. Even though love is supposedly the opposite of hate, they both share a relation in the book. In 1984, because the Party has the

Totalitarianism, derived from a society which proceeds without cautiousness towards governmental power, can induce many limitations among citizens and every aspect of their lives including individualism. In George Orwell’s 1984, the artificiality of the dystopian country influenced the protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, to try and deceive the government in any way possible. Winston and many others view individuality as immensely important, but a large challenge to achieve due to the diminished hope evident in dystopia. Hope is prominent among Winston in his actions towards the totalitarian government, referred to as Big Brother, throughout the novel. From the beginning of the novel when readers are introduced to a dismal setting to

My written task is based on the book 1984 by George Orwell: “The Theory and practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” written by Emanuel Goldstein is a book introduced in Orwell’s novel. The book addresses the party’s slogans: War is peace, Ignorance is strength and Freedom is slavery. It explains their true inner party meanings to the protagonist Winston and essentially the reader.

How does Big Brother control everybody? They control the history, the language, and intimidate people into silence. When the party in 1984 controls history and facts, it leads to double think. Doublethink is when you hold two contradicting thoughts in your head at once. The inner party people are

In the novel, of 1984 by George Orwell, can Big Brother control what is real and what is not? He controls the past and by instilling fear in its citizens. He controls people by controlling minds and preventing anyone from being able to disprove it. He would also use methods to control the way people would speak in Oceania.

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. The government slogan illustrates the sense of stringency that characterizes the world created by George Orwell. The vast power of the Oceanian government kept their people in constant paranoia through perpetual publicity, mangled violence and persistent manipulation in order to keep their world regulated as much as possible. The scene in the Novel 1984 is positioned in the expansive nation of Oceania, a realm of the future that replicates London. It is a totalitarian state that is dictated by an perplexing figure named Big Brother, who may not even exist. The government of this world is prevailed by the group of the Inner Party, and use their dominance by inhibiting everything

The book, 1984 by George Orwell, is about the external and internal conflicts that take place between the two main characters, Winston and Big Brother and how the two government ideas of Democracy and totalitarianism take place within the novel. Orwell wrote the novel around the idea of communism/totalitarianism and how society would be like if it were to take place. In Orwell’s mind democracy and communism created two main characters, Winston and Big Brother. Big Brother represents the idea of the totalitarian party. In comparison to Big Brother, Winston gives and represents the main thought of freedom, in the novel Winston has to worry about the control of the thought police because he knows that the government with kill anyone who

As human beings, there are distinct characteristics that separate us from feral animals; the ability to create, to appreciate art, to curiously question the world and most importantly to sympathize for our kind. However, when that exact nature is stripped from us, we tend to become mindless, restricted, cold, and degraded as an entire race. This is the setting of George Orwell’s last book, 1984. A world where human thought is limited, war and poverty lie on every street corner, and one cannot trust nobody or nothing. It is all due to the one reigning political entity, the Ingsoc Party, who imposes complete power over all aspects of life for all citizens. There is no creative or intellectual thought, no art, culture or history, and no

Does Big Brother even exist and why is this figure called Big Brother? To me, Big Brother comes off as a trustworthy name to look up to hence the name “Big Brother”. Big Brother comes off to me as a comfort name, someone who looks over you, protects you and has your back no matter what. Then again, the saying “War is at peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength” comes off as dictating and controlling compared to the name Big Brother. So, who exactly is Big Brother since people are so frightened by him? The party could have just made him up to intimate the people and scare people to get their control and power over everyone. Right off the bat, Big Brother reminds me of Stalin's Soviet Union. In class, we talked about how if you didn’t

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. The party slogan of Ingsoc illustrates the sense of contradiction which characterizes the novel 1984. That the book was taken by many as a condemnation of socialism would have troubled Orwell greatly, had he lived to see the aftermath of his work. 1984 was a warning against totalitarianism and state sponsored brutality driven by excess technology. Socialist idealism in 1984 had turned to a total loss of individual freedom in exchange for false security and obedience to a totalitarian government, a dysutopia. 1984 was more than a simple warning to the socialists of Orwell's time. There are many complex philosophical issues buried deep within