A Dystopian Society In 1984 By George Orwell's 1984

Today’s society is predicted as living in a world George Orwell envisioned in 1984. The system Orwell invented is compared to what the United States government is capable of doing. Government control of society is an essential subject due to the current mind set of the world today. In 1984, George Orwell represents how Big Brother is compared to today’s government, showing the consequences and dangers of a government with unlimited surveillance power.

“An average American citizen can be caught on camera more than 75 times a day.”(Crime Feed) Cameras are everywhere, from the time someone leaves their home to the time they arrive to work, and surveillance becomes a natural way of life. Today’s advance in technology has thrust the universe nearer to the world of Big Brother, a symbol in George Orwell’s novel 1984, written after World War 2 with foreshadows of the world’s technological future, and imitates the novel through the government’s abilities to spy on individuals. Orwell’s prediction for the year 1984 is faultless because it directs the future toward an imprisoned world through technology as today, although the novel was published in 1949. When Big Brother’s world and today are compared,

The human condition can be described as the aspects of life that compose and form a person. Many novels depict a society where the human condition is manipulated by those in power. In 1984 by George Orwell, the human condition is controlled by the government. The nation, Oceania, is ruled by a strict, hostile regime called the Inner Party. The Inner Party keeps a constant, vigilant watch on their citizens through several methods such as the use of telescreens and thought police. Using this to their advantage, the Inner Party controls their citizens’ daily lives and routine. Failure to follow the Inner Party’s directives ultimately results in death. On the other hand, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 portrays a society where the human condition is controlled by media. In this world, reading books has been outlawed. Books are now burned along with the houses that they are found in. Without books, citizens turn to various media outlets to fill their minds. Television parlors, Seashell ear thimbles, and similar objects encompass the citizens’ lives and continually surround them to the point of brainwashing. Both novels illustrate a harsh, manipulated human condition which is reflected in the societies’ people; however, between the two societies depicted, a more devastating, oppressive and strict human condition is demonstrated in Orwell’s 1984.

A dystopian society is one with restricted freedom, whose values are worshipped by citizens who live in fear of surveillance or punishment. In 1984 by George Orwell, the protagonist lives in a futuristic world, controlled by big brother and the inner party over aspects of human life. In Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, the fear of egalitarian policies, and the dangers of equality take over. In The Purge by James DeMonaco, the citizens relief to self-regulate violence and to protect themselves and their family from the protagonist. All dystopian literature shares similar characteristics, winston which is the protagonist in 1984, he lives in a society where the government takes over and tries to brainwash the citizens making them believe they live in a illusion of a perfect world. Winston is depicted and physically ill, but strong enough not to give in. “Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.” (Orwell 12). George Bergeron is the protagonist in Harrison Bergeron, the government makes him wear a radio, which broadcasts noise over these radios to interrupt the thoughts of smart people like George. ‘’Screams and barking cries of consternation came from the television set’’ (Vonnegut 2). Sergeant was the protagonist in the purge, he risked his life by saving others life for a night of horror. The Purge, Harrison Bergeron, and 1984 were all based off government, society where there is limiting and controlling the population. ‘’We

When George Orwell wrote his novel, 1984, Hitler and Mussolini had recently been defeated in World War II, the nuclear arms race was warming up and the Soviet Union was a threat to the world. Although these are not problems in today's society, 1984 is still very relevant in current time, "The twentieth century will soon be over, but political terror still survives and this is why Nineteen Eighty-four remains valid today” (Ricks 5). In the novel 1984 the main character Winston is faced with challenges when he meets a woman named Julia. Julia makes him question his loyalty to the government. They are living under a totalitarian government that sees everything you do, hears everything you say, and knows everything you think. George Orwell’s novel 1984 is still relevant in today’s society.

Orwell’s prediction of digital surveillance is one of the biggest issues that is discussed today as the increased amount of surveillance in countries, which creates a lack of privacy for the citizens. One scholar of George Orwell says, “Orwell say way ahead of his time that surveillance was a constant threat. When you’ve lost your privacy to a government that says it’s only thinking of your safety, you’ve lost something previous” (qtd. in Gelt 2). The novel starts out with the very well known quote of “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU,” (2). The concept of Big Brother is that the government is constantly watching over the people to make sure there is no attack on the Party and/or the Party’s interests. Big Brother uses resources such as surveillance helicopters (13) to peer into the rooms of the apartments

The government in both today’s society and that of 1984’s use surveillance to constantly watch over the citizens. In the novel, The Party’s figure of authority was referred to as Big Brother. Throughout Oceania there were posters of Big Brother which stated, “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 2). This referred to the fact that the Party was constantly monitoring the citizens on telescreens. The point of the telescreens was to control the people, enter their persona, manipulate them into changing their actions, and essentially

Throughout history there have been societies known to base their political and moral structure based on hate towards a certain group that they find to be unfitting within their preset standards. Various groups whom have based their entire campaign on hate have managed to maintain power and a presence through long periods of time and some are still present today yet they no longer posses the same amount of influence which they once had through their uprising. Although there have been several occasions in which these societies have demonstrated their passionate hate towards societies they tend to not withstand power and stability during a long period of time doing so because they hold no actual tangible power. In the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian society where every source of reliability has been altered by the government. Within the society they've constructed a Ministry of Truth, a department specifically dedicated to modify and rewrite the content of all books, newspapers, articles, and documents for its own benefits."changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original data, and no

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” This is the slogan of the Inner Party in 1984. George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 depicts a terrifying and bleak image of the future under “Big Brother” — an authoritarian regime that controls not only the citizens’ action, but their very own thoughts. The novel was written in 1948 as a critique of authoritarianism and Stalinism, after Orwell’s travel to Spain where he witnessed the atrocities committed by the fascist Spanish regime during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The rise of the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler in Germany inspired Orwell’s enmity toward totalitarianism and authoritarianism. Although written as a political satire over half a century ago, 1984 lives today not only as a well-crafted novel, but also as a terrific prophecy of the contemporary United States. Nobody is willing to admit that people are living in the society of 1984. Its authoritarian state is toxic to the health of democracy. But if one really analyzes what is happening in the United States — the closure of public schools and its effect on the pervasive incarceration of the black population, and the mass surveillance — one may find a striking resemblance to the dystopian society of 1984. To this extent, 1984 successfully advances the authoritarianism in the United States that resembles the authoritarian control in 1984. These critiques of the new authoritarianism in the United States include the

In the world of 1984 by George Orwell surveillance is another word for complete control and spying. In the world created by George Orwell the party or “Big Brother” has a full control over its citizens to the point where it uses “Telescreens” to surveillance everyone's daily activity and their thoughts. Orwell predicts that the world we live in today is going to come to that point where the government is going to track everyone’s activity. In other word “ Big Brother is watching.”

The strongest people are poor, starving, and treated like animals. In 1948, author George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel 1984. In 1984, Orwell created a world without freedom of speech, motion, and thought to portray an idea of our world with totalitarian power. In the book, it follows a member of the Outer Party named Winston, and his fight to keep his freedom of thought through love, rebellion, and secrecy. Throughout the book, it portrays three important themes, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. The statement, “Ignorance is Strength” is a deep meaning throughout George Orwell’s 1984 due to the jocundity of the Proles, the rigid rules and expectations of both the Inner and Outer party, and Big Brother’s strive

The book 1984 depicts a society unimaginable to most; however, a further look shows us that we actually do live in an Orwellian society. Orwell describes a country called Oceania made of multiple continents which is ruled by the dictatorial “Big Brother” who uses different systems like the “thought police” and “telescreens” in order to have full control over the country. Our democratic government, through organizations such as the NSA and NGI, can look through our most private conversations and moments using spyware. Due to the secrecy of the government, citizens in 1984, as well as those in our society, fear the government.

This book starts in London on April fourth, 1984. The book is written in partly third person, and partly in first person. The book is divided into three distinct parts. The first part is showing you the main character, Winston Smith and his differences and frustration with the world he works and lives in. The country or the “Super state” he lives in called Oceania is run under a government called INGSOC (English Socialism). The leaders of the nation are called "The Party." The Party is divided into two sections, The Inner Party, and The Outer Party. The "Rich" and the "middle-class." There is a third group of people called "The Proles," or "The Proletariat" who are the lower class or the poorer class. The main leader of this government is called “Big Brother” and there also a very famous conspiracy theory about a traitor of the state by a person called “Emmanuel Goldstein” who was part of the inner party and then betrayed the state. The book is about the life of Smith with his frustration towards the government and the society he lives and the journey he embarks on from hating the party to finding comfort in another party worker and to eventually falling in love with big brother. The book is divided into three parts with the first part explaining the dynamics and structure of the new world. The second part focuses on how Smith finds solace by committing “though crime” as his act against the party and finally,

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.

Hopelessness, deep and gaping ever lasting hopelessness. If the course of humanity fails to change, to this everyone will succumb. That is the message that George Orwell has left for the future, and it would be in humanity's best interest to heed. Winston Smith of 1984 lived in a world that had been consumed by the everlasting abyss of injustice. Eventually this world became too much for our hopeful protagonist and thus, like the future that is bound to a horrific fate, he succumbed. “It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it” (Orwell 248). No one in this world is any different than Winston, they will follow his path like all of those before them, following the five stages of Kübler-Ross. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance make up the cycle that every feeble life will follow and that Winston grew to know all too well.