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Communism In 1984 By George Orwell

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The word ‘utopia’ literally means ‘nowhere’ – an imaginary society, coming from Thomas More’s novel (1516), which resonates with the sense that things could be improved for people in society, free of peril and poverty. Monetary stress such as the Great Depression has proved to cause many writers to envisage and share a world free of flaw, where success is accessible to all. From the late 1920s to early 1930s the Western industrialised world experienced an economic downturn called the Great Depression. Unemployment rates reached 25% in 1932 as well as the US stock market falling 90% from 1929-32. This led to a rapid increase in crime rate as countless unemployed workers saw theft as a last resort. This era undoubtedly caused societies, and those …show more content…

As this novel shares his own experience of witnessing totalitarian regimes and their means of conserving their supremacy, 1984 advises nations how to overcome communism, which are still blinded by it. Orwell was profoundly concerned with the extensive subjugations he detected in communist nations, and appeared to have been principally disturbed by “the role of technology in enabling oppressive governments to monitor and control their citizens” (Quiggins, ). In 1984, Orwell portrays the perfect totalitarian society, where the right to freedom, individuality and privacy is eradicated. Although the novel is not set in 1984, the ongoing unpromising tone cautions readers that if totalitarianism is not opposed, by the time 1984 approaches, the world of inescapable surveillance and control which is meticulously depicted in the novel will realize itself. Orwell exposes a nation where there is complete loss of confidentiality as people are observed in the ‘comfort’ of their own homes. Technology and plans are used to eliminate any sense of individuality that one should hold, as well as the extinction of freedom through organisations and machinery. The control of the government is exemplified through the unceasing surveillance, where privacy is imaginary, and when one attempts to produce such privacy for himself, he is ill-treated and brainwashed into believing “2+2=5” (Orwell, in 1984). Orwell depicts a bleak, dark future ahead, the most awful civilization comprehendible, in a determination to assure society that the acceptance of a totalitarian state will be followed by society’s demise, and that such a state should be considered society’s

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