Comparing Utopia Compared To 1984 And The Giver, By George Orwell

This tactic of control used by the party, was the uncomforting feeling of not being able to trust nor admire anyone in Oceania besides the Party and Big Brother . Winston's paranoia occurred because the Party programmed his mind to believe he could not trust anyone and if he did he would be vanished. Due to this belief imprinted on his mind he began to worry that Julia would deceive him, furthermore accumulating to his paranoia . Part of human nature is love and devotion into another human being, by the Party removing this from our morals comes the fear to love and be vulnerable as portrayed through Winston. The panic of getting turned down or in this case potentially killed due to having affection towards another tends to cause paranoia in Winston's life.

Throughout the novel, Winston wanted to rebel against the government, but the fear of the thought police made him conform. The party used telescreens and other things to monitor the citizens to make sure they were not thinking for themselves. This is why Winston had to be careful in what he does because if he got caught he would have been killed. When Winston finally found people that he trusted and thought were on his side, he started to begin to do things outside of conformity. This is when the party stepped in and began to punish him with his worst fear of rats to make him conform again. Winston knew that Big Brother was not real, but he was forced to conform by being brainwashed by his

Throughout the novel, Winston is always hiding his thoughts about the Party and about Big Brother, although he is completely against it. However, in order to ensure that he does not get caught, he must act as though he loves them and agrees with their power over society. Surveillance is shaping these characters to be a perfect representation of what they are expected to be, instead of being who they are.

In both stories, the controlling authority and the role of resistance lead to the need for a safe space. In 1984, it is not until Winston sees the note from Julia that “the desire to stay alive had welled up inside go him […] and the taking of minor risks […] seemed stupid” (Orwell 115). After this realization, Winston finds an apartment where there is no visible telescreen and he thinks they will be safe. Eventually, it is shown that they were being watched all along and that their safe space was never safe from the

This is significant because it shows that Winston can no longer suppress his feelings of hatred for Big Brother. Although Winston previously took an active role in expressing his hatred for Big Brother when writing in his diary in the beginning of the novel, he was previously able to control his thoughts and not state his feelings of hatred out loud. However, after meeting with Julia and fully believing in the brotherhood, Winston can no longer defeat his hatred for Big Brother and expresses this hatred subconsciously while sleeping.

Additionally, the portrayal of this dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian government might have been understood well by contemporary audiences, mirroring the rules of totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy- the citizens have no influence on the government and have no freedom of choosing the rules that govern and control every part of their lives. Therefore, Winston blames the misery in his life totally and completely on the government and on Big Brother. In Winston’s case, we can see that the propaganda, deprivation, and strict rules fail to make him concur with the party and accept Big Brother- in this situation, the party has to use extreme force and torture to make Winston love the party as well as Big Brother, in order for the party to maintain complete power.

The Party has a device used to control the people to even a greater extent called the telescreen. Winston finds a way to sort of slip around its watch on him when he is alone. "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place with range of a telescreen.

The culture surrounding Winston is very confined. With the telescreens watching everyone and everything, it's hard for anyone to have free thought. An example of how Big Brother can tell if a person is not thinking the way they should be, is that they can tell by facial expressions. Orwell writes "To wear an improper expression... was... a punishable offense" (54) With restrictions like this, it is hard for characters to do what they please. This effects Winston by making him act a certain way so that he can avoid being caught. However, Winston does not seem to mind being caught for some time. When Winston is writing in his journal, he writes "theyll shoot me i dont care" (20). This is just a fragment of what Winston wrote in this entry. The fact that Orwell gave Winston the trait to write with improper grammar signifies how delirious Winston is when he writes this. (make sure you put a conclusion sentence)

Winston shows many forms of paranoia from the beginning of the novel. Since the Party has gotten into Winston’s thoughts so much it has made him paranoid everywhere he goes, not to mention when he is meeting up with Julia, “What made it sit at the edge of the lonely wood and pour its music into nothingness? He wondered whether after all there was a microphone hidden somewhere near” (130). Winston’s thoughts in that statement come across as paranoid; he is wondering if there is a hidden microphone around and if so will he be getting into trouble for speaking with Julia? One of Winston’s biggest paranoia is a hidden microphone, many times throughout the novel Winston wonders if he is being recorded or if someone is listening to what he is saying.

1984 by George Orwell is an extremely negative outlook on a futuristic, seemingly utopian society. People inhabiting the land of Oceania are enslaved to the government, most without even realizing it. The Party uses its many members to enforce its methods of control on the population. While a bit extreme, Orwell was attempting to warn people about the dangers of totalitarianism.

Oceania’s society is a dystopian society controlled by mysterious figure that no one has met. The government makes the country a forgery of a dictatorship government. The government puts false information and fear into the citizens to control their lives and keeps them from rebelling against them. In their society, Big brother takes claim to ideas that are not theirs, eradicates the past to control the future and tells their citizens that they are at war all the time. Oceania's government portrays their society as an utopia but trying to destroy the past to control the present justifies their a flawed society.

In the first few chapters alone, the setting is depicted as unbearably stifling. The fact that a large telescreen placed in your home allows you to be involuntarily "seen as well as heard" (pg 8, Orwell), patrol helicopters are constantly hovering outside your home and "snooping into people's windows" (pg 8, Orwell), and your own thoughts, which are regulated by the Thought Police, could get you arrested, vaporized, and erased from history are invariable pieces of evidence of how smothering the atmosphere of this dystopia is. More specifically to Winston's case, the apartment he lives is described as "falling to pieces" (pg 23, Orwell), with a broken elevator, flaking plaster, broken pipes, and roof leakages. The author may have characterized this setting in such a manner to create a sense of both paranoia and uneasiness (in being watched yet also neglected). As for the character of Winston, he appears to be both wise and curious. He exhibits his curiosity when he decided to purchase a small book to keep as his diary,

1984 has very intriguing aspects in it, and its very eye opening to put it into terms that suit a certain situation. To bring out my own fears and utopia is kind of hard, because we all try to think that we aren’t afraid of anything or the things that we are afraid of, would never scare us enough to make us say and do and believe things that we are completely against. Digging deep into your brain and picking apart each coil of your brain, each cell, taking out all the things that could genuinely make life perfect or a genuine living hell for you.

The book 1984 by George Orwell is about a society that manipulates its citizens to believe in The Party by using Big Brother a man who no one’s ever met or seen besides on huge poster that hang in the Victory Square. The citizens in Oceania have to follow strict rules applied by the Inner Party, they do not have privacy and cannot express any type of feelings because the thought police would be onto them. Oceanias ways of doing things conforms to the way a utopian society would function because their citizens do the same routine as one another everyday, they have similar ways of dressing and their jobs are assigned by the the Inner Party. They have no communication with the outside countries and cannot leave Oceania. The reason why this book falls under a utopian society would be because 1984 shares many characteristics a utopian society would.

Erich Fromm, the author of the “Afterword” in the Signet Classic edition of 1984 States: “George Orwell’s 1984 is the expression of a mood, and it is a warning. The mood it expresses is that of near despair about the future of man, and the warning is that unless the course of history changes, men all over the world will lose their most human qualities, will become soulless automatons and will not even be aware of it.” The Afterword of 1984 serves as a warning for present day and for the future to avoid this society that Winston and Julia were trapped and exposed to. It also discusses how unless the world avoids history repeating itself, future people could potentially be transformed into these brainwashed individuals that we see in the novel 1984. Erich Fromm describes many examples that display different types of utopias/thought controlled societies, and discusses the psychological aspects that shape a society.