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1984, a book written by George Orwell, is a dystopian novel about a totalitarian government that oppresses its people and controls all aspects of their lives. The book goes into grave detail about what it would be like if the world was ran by a totalitarian government. 1984 was published on june 8, 1949 and was a presentation of how the world would be in the future more specifically in 1984. 1984 uses many prime examples of today society and how the government works today and some countries that still use communism in today modern government. In 1984, it can be easily discussed that the government is a form of totalitarianism. A prime example of this is that in the novel, the government rules over the people through fear. The government
1984 was a novel written by George Orwell, and exemplified his ideologies of big government. Orwell wrote this book as a social commentary at the start of the cold war. Orwell saw how communism truly was and it’s power to oppress people. He was very wary of large government. And wanted to inform the American people of what they were actually supporting in 1949.
Family is a concept older than recorded time. The fact that humans form familial bonds, take care of their young, and work together to achieve a goal is the reason that humanity has succeeded this far. But maybe for not much longer. In George Orwell’s 1984, a totalitarian government monitors everything that its citizens say, do, and even think in order to prevent revolution and suppress individuality. One of the ways the government achieves this is by destroying all bonds between members in a family by turning the children away from their parents (and towards the government) at a young age. To the government in 1984, a citizen’s closest relationship should be to the party. In fact, a citizens only good relationship should be with the party.
To start things off let's look at the differences between dictatorship and totalitarian control “Totalitarian regimes seek to establish complete political, social and cultural control. ”(Nazi Fascism and the modern totalitarian state) and “dictatorships seek limited, typically political, control. ”(Nazi Fascism and the modern totalitarian state).
In the year 1984, the world divided into three states. These three states in so-called war always. This story takes place in London. London is a city in Oceania, where the people are controlling in every aspect in their life by the Government. Bombs are blown in streets randomly and people die everyday.
1984 is a book that explains how bad it would be to be under a totalitarian government they control how you think and act. A totalitarian government can almost every form of government as long the people do not have all of the power in the government. The reason for this is that people would not willingly consent to to lose their freedom to act or how they think. 1984 was written during the years of the rise of the nazi germany. This book was written to inform people about how bad life would be if totalitarianism was your government.
1984, written by George Orwell, contains many different levers and structures of power. This novel takes place in Airstrip One, Oceania. All of these levers guide the reader through Mr. Orwell’s points he wants to make in this novel. Mr. Orwell’s purpose in book one is to warn the modern world of the damage that can come from embracing totalitarian regimes. Each structure of power, authority, the thought police, and ignorance are evident in book one of this novel by Mr. Orwell.
1984, has a reoccurring theme throughout the whole text, that theme is the outcome, or fears of totalitarianism and what it can do to a society. This theme has a lot of motivation from the time this book was set in and the fears of the future. He used three different ways of demonstrating the Dangers and the outcome of totalitarianism. They all are examples of what he believes could happen if society falls between these lines and how alarming it could be to us.
Using his remarkable writing skills, Orwell published 1984 in hopes that he would be able to demonstrate to his readers that a communist government would lead to a totalitarian reign over all of society.
Irrationality of Totalitarianistic Control Oftentimes, people become so addicted to power and the ability to control others, that they go to far extremes to keep it. In the nineteen-hundreds around the same time, two examples of this developed under Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. After Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union, he conducted a reign of terror in which he purged anyone who represented a threat to his power. In addition, when Hitler came into power in Germany he eliminated all opposition through execution. He also took over control of all aspects of society with the use of censoring the media, spying, and having a secret police.
The governments in today’s society have brainwashed their citizens into believing everything their leader says and thinks is correct and everything else is wrong. This can sometimes be known as a totalitarian government. George Orwell’s novel 1984 revolves around totalitarianism. The members of the party in Oceania are taught and required to worship their leader Big Brother whether they believe in him or not. In the novel 1984, George Orwell shows the problems and the hatred with a totalitarian government through his use of symbolism, situational irony, and indirect characterization.
Totalitarianism was a very important theme in George Orwell’s 1984, as it is constantly shown throughout the novel. Orwell was living in a time, the 1940s, where the Soviet Union was a powerful force in the world, and the strong totalitarian government shown in the novel was based off of the Soviet Union. Not only did totalitarianism happen in the 1940s, but it also continues to occur today in countries such as North Korea and China. In George Orwell’s 1984, Orwell makes many similarities to today’s world by warning what could happen in the future.
In my personal opinion, a society based upon hate and suffering cannot exist. I believe that human beings are born inherently good. Although nearly all of us will participate in the struggle to obtain power, with societies illustrating this fight on a larger scale, history shows us that those who promote violence, hate, and suffering will never prevail. The novel 1984 depicts a society in which all citizens live their lives without love and happiness. Instead, they exist daytoday in constant fear as Big Brother watches their every move, silently eliminating all who oppose him.
Taking place forty years ahead of the time it was written, 1984 was written with the purpose of revealing the dangers of a totalitarian society. Despite the large time frame from when 1984 was written to the year the Cultural Revolution took place in China, and also to the year 1984 was set in, this novel accurately depicts a totalitarian government during the 1900s. In 1966, the Communist Party leader, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in fear of losing power to the Communist party to his adversary, Liu Shaoqi. Similar to the government policies in Oceania, the Communist Party corrupts the minds of the children in order to enlist them as loyalists to the Party. They also harassed and denounced party bureaucrats,
The dictionary definition of humanity is the fact or condition of being human; human nature. This means that any natural emotion or natural human instinct is apart of one’s humanity. George Orwell used a person’s humanity in his book “1984” to show the ways of the Party and totalitarianism. In a totalitarian society, the rulers try to control their citizens through violence, torture, and abuse of power. One way is to try and control one's thoughts or their humanity which is exactly what the party members tried to do and in some ways succeeded.
The Party control the discourse, it seems vital to maintaining totalitarianism. In his work on understanding Orwell, James A. Tyner states, “Complete discipline proceeds from… control of thought.” (Tyner, Vol. 5, No. 1, March 2004) When the political party begins to control the minds of the people, they control their lives. There really is no personal space or personal time in Orwellian dystopia. All the time or space is owned by the government. Even the thoughts of a person are monitored by the telescreens and so are the expressions of the people. This helps The Party constantly track what each person is thinking and if they suspect the person is committing thought crime, then these people are immediately arrested and tortured and eventually brainwashed into mechanically being unquestioning followers of the Big Brother.