1984's Totalitarian Government

In modern society, people have seen the development of technology and the improvement of policy. But in George Orwell’s novel entitled 1984, set in a dystopian world, the protagonist named Winston who works for the Ministry of Truth in London. He finds love with Julia, and they begin to question the Party. The author portrayed the world in his novel was oppressive and totalitarianism. However, In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the dystopian world and the totalitarianism state will not develop in the future society. In the ways of the conformity, the reality control and laws and regulations.

During Joseph Stalin’s regime of the Soviet Union, 1984, the Classic Dystopian novel by George Orwell, was burned and banned, because the book shone a negative light on communism. The book, 1984, follows the life of Winston Smith, who lives in a country called Oceania. Oceania is a totalitarian society, ruled by a government known as The Party, whose leader is called Big Brother. In Oceania, every movement and sound every person makes is constantly surveillanced, and one wrong facial expression, statement, or action can cause the ‘Thought Police’ to take the person away to never be seen again. A small percentage of the population questions The Party’s dictatorship, and the novel follows Winston’s struggles to keep his hatred of The Party

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

Winston Smith is a typical example of vertebrae in the spine of any society. Hard working and keeps a rigid structure by absorbing impact, filling the spaces with his unknown desires. The bending of laws to avoid self-destruction in constant pressure from society and government. The idea of having every thought controlled, monitored and limited to what the elite deem as a necessary compromise to maintain peace and order in Oceania or any other Utopia in a general sense. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of their own choosing, to understand the concept is the true hell for Winston.

Imagine a world where the government, also called The Party, controls everything the citizens do. The Party monitors their every move by the telescreens that are in every home. Thoughtcrime is the act of thinking something that goes against Big Brother or threatens the Party’s power. If one does commit thoughtcrime, then they Thought Police will capture them and give them consequence. There is no essence of humanity in this world. Everyone is stripped of their own thoughts and told what to do and what to believe. This is the world portrayed in novel

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.

Before the concept of government existed mankind still attempted to gain dominance over one another. Once the concept was developed governments remained consistent in their attempts to gain control of their people and world domination. Adolf Hitler and other dictators were prime examples of totalitarianism “attempting to control every aspect of its subjects, viewing any sign of independence as treasonous centralized party” ( Quinn 1). Along came “historical catastrophes which would lead them to create a false utopia vision of the just society” (Quinn 2). George Orwell noticed this tug of war for control and wrote about it in his novel. The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, would struggle to retain his

The government of 1984 is 100% totalitarianistic. The psychological deterioration of its citizens was insane. The living conditions were horrid and the simple necessities provided by the government were disgusting and not sufficing in the least. There was someone watching you at each second except in RARE occasions. Relationships were not allowed, and love was basically non existent nor was it permitted.

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.

In George Orwell’s Oceania, Big Brother reshapes every person to be a model citizen. In order to be a model citizen, one must follow the countless strict rules and worship Big Brother. By not following the rules, Big Brother vaporizes the criminals, which means that they kill them and then, they are never spoken of again. The slightest mistake could ruin one’s life; even thinking the wrong thought. One of the many crimes is thought crime. The Thought Police essentially kidnaps all those who commit thought crime and reshape them to worship Big Brother. In 1984 The Party reshapes Winston Smith into a model citizen after hating the Party and Big Brother. This is an example of one’s thoughts and feelings being suppressed by the government. In George Orwell’s 1984, totalitarianism negatively affects the citizens of Oceania by destroying relationships and suppressing thoughts, feelings and relationships between the people.

With a dictatorship many freedoms that humanity may possess now would not be in our grasp. In 1984 they there were little to none. “Crimethink” or “thoughtcrime” are our unlawful thoughts, essentially any ideas that could go against English Socialism, “ingsoc.” Big Brother appears on Oceania’s televisions multiple times a day to show the brainwashing-esque messages, people vanish to unpersons, vaporized out of thin air, and the clock strikes thirteen. The main character, Winston Smith, leads the story and shows the audience how extreme this absolute totalitarian control affects the people of Oceania. Newspeak and doublethink, politically correct words created by Big Brother, also

1984 is a book written by george orwell depicts a totalitarian society of a new word order in which three superstate are at constant perpetual wars. Here, the totalitarian government or also known as “the party” control every aspect of the people's lives, lead by an ominous being who goes by the name ‘Big Brother”. Here, “big brother’ monitors the people's every move with objects call teli-screens that monitor the people's every move. The party has created a new language called “newspeak” to replace the inferior language called “old speak”. “Newspeak” was created in order to simplify the the language making it more straightforward, thus getting rid of double meaning in order to control the thoughts of the people. To the party, thoughs are considered

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.

The novel nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell, reveals the destruction of all aspects of the universe. Orwell envisioned how he believes life would be like if a country was taken over by a totalitarian figure. 1984 effectively portrays a totalitarian style government, in which elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation with very little citizen participation in the decision-making process of the legislative body. Although the authors’ ideas are inherently and completely fictional, several concepts throughout his book have common links to today’s society which is somehow a realist perspective. Orwell integrates combination of devices such as irony, motifs through characteristics of a dystopian novel, satire which is used to illustrate the life of Winston Smith.

The human mind was built to think critically. When governments start to restrict this ability to think for oneself, society turns into a corrupt and oppressive state. George Orwell uses inspiration from Nazi Germany and Soviet Union as inspiration to outline a prophecy of a government seeking to control the minds and bodies of its people through fear. The novel offers no solutions but simply brings the possibility of the situation to the table to warn individuals against sacrificing their individuality to prevent totalitarian control in the future. Any society can turn totalitarian if all mental resistance and individuality of the people is eradicated; 1984 voices the cruciality of protecting our most important right, the right to freely have individual thoughts.