Literary Analysis Of 1984 By George Orwell

Loneliness is something everyone experiences. However, nobody should have to go through the degree of loneliness of being unable to confide in one person. Everybody needs a person. At the start of 1984 by George Orwell, Winston is completely alone and cannot open up about his feelings towards Big Brother to anyone. He is unable to conform to his natural human nature due to a government in total control. George Orwell’s 1984 communicates the threat on society of a totalitarian government by using literary devices such as irony, foreshadowing, as well as characterization.

Imagine being controlled completely by the government; cameras in every household, microphones recording every word spoken and propaganda saying “Big Brother is watching you!” all around. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, that is the reality. Thirty-nine year old Winston Smith, low-ranking member of the Party in London, Is embittered by the Totalitarian government and its brutality to the people. The Party controls everything in Oceania; languages, history, sex, free thought and even individuality, by the Thought Police. Winston writes in a diary how much he hates the government, which ultimately would get him killed by the Thought Police if he was caught. Winston believes there is a secret brotherhood which works to overthrow Big Brother and the Party, and has a suspicion that a powerful party member named O’Brien is part of this group.

Set in a world with three major super countries, George Orwell’s novel 1984 gives a futuristic insight into the new London, renamed Oceania and under Big Brother’s totalitarian reign (Schmoop). Big Brother and the Party use violent and extreme rules and rituals to control its population and enforce its brain washing ideals. Winston Smith, a subtle rebel, follows the rules with an invisible hate for the Party. When he falls in love with Julia, another inconspicuous rule breaker, they work to find new ways to free themselves from the Party, soon discovering the Brotherhood, the rebel group against the Party. Using Winston’s thoughts and perceptions of the world he lives in, the reader is shown the fear instilled in the people by the use of totalitarian

One of factors the reader is immediately introduced to, is the incessant and haunting image of ‘BIG BROTHER’ and the power it asserts across all of Oceania, described as being “so contrived that the eyes follow you about as you move” (3). This highlights the uneasiness felt with the presence of this totalitaristic state and the helplessness obediently accepted by the people. BIG BROTHER is the representative for government group ‘the Party’ and is used as a way to communicate with the people through posters and a telescreen. The posters often come paired with captions such as ‘BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU’, ensuring that the nation stays aware of their severe lack of freedom and reminding them that any attempt to deter from what is acceptable would be futile. Incidentally, the main character, Winston Smith, is one that has not yet forgotten his memories of a more liberated time and holds onto the possibility of once more reaching freedom. This hope is gradually being repressed by the forces of society alongside the depressing atmosphere of London in year 1984. With the people’s memory becoming increasingly vague over time, it gives the Party more leverage to build off of this absence of consciousness to create a perfectly functioning, mindless society. Smith’s memory loss is made prevalent when “He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this….But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood except a series of bright-lit tableaux occurring against no background and mostly unintelligible.” (5). This also shows his association of the past with blankness, lacking depth, leaving space to be filled with BIG BROTHER’s propaganda. Also, the events Orwell writes about in this novel are often interpreted

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a sound? This thought experiment is used to understand the nature of reality and physics. It can be rewritten to ask if an event happens and no one is around to observe it, did it happen? The first problem is that if an event happens yet no one observes it then we cannot be certain that that event happens. Reality only dictates that the end result occurred but the process can be vastly different than expected. Orwell's novel 1984 explores the limits of our notions of reality and explains how it can be twisted to make events which have happened not happen. The party controls reality since they “control the mind. Reality is inside the skull”. Reality as we know it is the byproduct of individual signals being sent to the brain and the

1984 written by George Orwell follows the main character Winston Smith in a dystopia called Oceania. Winston is an outer party member which is considered the second lowest member of the classes. The lowest ranking of the government are the proles, They are the uneducated and poor masses. Winston works at the ministry of truth where literature is created and the past is destroyed. “Big Brother” is the single ruler of their community. To rebel against “Big Brother” Winston starts to keep a diary which is one of the many rules of their society and can be punishable by death. Winston wants to remain human while he is surrounded by brainwashed people who forget the passed. He is also surrounded telescreens that are in his home, work cubicle, cafeteria

Although Big Brother is merely a figurehead, he plays a major role in The Party’s plan to seize control of Oceania, as well as revealing the main theme in Orwell’s book. He is a creation of The Party, used to personify the government and make manipulating Oceania easier. Pictures of him are posted all around Airstrip One, reminding people that “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU…” (3) When one is constantly being monitored, it is much more difficult to think for oneself as the pressure to not say anything that may be identified as suspicious increases. Privacy is a privilege most people have today. However, in Winston’s world, it does not exist. The inhabitants of Oceania are continuously being supervised and know it: “ You have to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you make was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised.” (5) The citizens accept that they are being tracked all the time since most of them never had such a thing as privacy. Therefore, they will not know

By design, Newspeak narrows the range of thought and shortens people’s memories. It is therefore ideal for a totalitarian system, in which the government has to

Do you think you would be able to live in community in which you have no privacy nor control over your own life. The novel “1984” By George Orwell gives us a point of view of what it would be like to live with no privacy or control. Orwell describes in the novel how Big Brother controls in form of a totalitarian government in order to maintain and preserve his power in Oceania. “Big Brother Is Watching You” slogan in which the government shows who controls the city. Despite the fact that Big Brother had full control over the citizens, some still managed to rebel against him and his way of ruling.

In humanity, there are leaders who feel that taking control over their nation can help to improve their society. However, citizens in those particular societies, have diverse opinions as to their laws and regulations that they are required to follow. With this, every nation has its own particular government, or leader. A government’s role is to regulate and organize their nation, along with their citizens. There are various types of governments, such include democracy, oligarchy, and more specifically, totalitarian. A totalitarian government gains extensive amounts of control and power over all of their people, and dominate over every aspect of their lives. George Orwell’s “1984,” conveys to its readers how the government presented

We live in a world of technology. It surrounds us like a cloud or a blanket of information and connectivity. Every day governments around the world are using more private surveillance tactics. The US government is heavily tapping into this cloud of information and the public 's privacy is being reduced and we are inching closer and closer to constant, total surveillance. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, those who aren’t living on the street live under constant surveillance. Those fortunate enough to live in one of the decrepit apartment buildings sacrifice their privacy and their freedom, while working for the government that controls them. Telescreens monitor everything, while people are forced to live in awful conditions.

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,

George Orwell’s 1984 depicts a society in which all the people involved are gradually losing all sense of individuality. The novel follows Winston Smith, a member of the outer Party in Oceania. As an individual, he has been forced to believe the rules of the society he lives in. In Oceania, the country in which he resides, people believe what they are told to believe. The citizens follows the strict beliefs of the Party and Big Brother, both of which represent the government. A large amount of the manipulation involved with this society is focused on Big Brother. Big Brother specifically represents a supreme power that, at points in 1984, is compared to God. Big Brother, is not a physical person, but instead a concept used to manipulate the citizens of Oceania. The members in this society recognize that to rebel against their government was to become a traitor and would ultimately lead to their death.

In conclusion, Orwell demonstrated his belief in the natural evolution of language, as well as linguistic descriptivism. He demonstrated the capacity of language to mold people’s thoughts and opinion by incorporating Newspeak, which condenses language into its simplest and most packaged form. Language controls the past, which in turn controls the present, and the minds of

Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place in the fictional nation of Oceania, in a Cold War-like world where three superpowers vie for supremacy. In Oceania, society is divided into three sectors: a ruling Inner Party, a heavily indoctrinated Outer Party, and masses of socially irrelevant Proles. Winston Smith, the main character, is a member of the Outer Party. He works in the Records Department in the Ministry of Truth, where, despite the organization 's name, his job is to rewrite and distort history. To escape Big Brother 's tyranny, at least in his imagination, Winston starts writing a diary, in which he writes every negative thought about Big Brother that crosses his mind. He cannot be so open about his distaste because telescreens, government mandated combinations of television and security camera that do not include an off switch, are placed everywhere - in his home, his cubicle at work, the cafeteria where he eats, even in individual bathroom stalls. Every move he makes is under a state of extreme surveillance.