Control In George Orwell 1984

Every day, governments control what people know, what they learn, and what they can do. What if the people in society were punished for believing differently than their government? In the book, “1984” by George Orwell, the government manipulated the people into believing a certain way, the government’s way. If the people challenged the beliefs of the government, they were tortured excessively, then carefully sculpted and shaped into an ally of the government. Their old self no longer existed. In Orwell’s “1984”, society is controlled by the government and people are being altered to fit the government’s idea of a true follower. In our society today, social media has begun to sculpt and shape its followers.

The novel 1984 by George Orwell is an eye opening novel which showed how Big Brother had full control over his citizens. He created a sense of fear into the minds of the manipulated. Protagonist Winston Smith went through a series of challenges for trying to go against Big Brother due to the fact that they used physical force and psychologically manipulated their citizens to gain authority against their citizens.

Social control has been an issue in both the real world and fictional novels for numerous years. Under the leadership of the Party, there were restrictions on the citizens of Oceania that were put into place in 1984. In addition, there are some similarities and differences between the social control in the novel compared to real life.     Very early in the novel it is introduced to the reader that there are major social controls set in place in Oceania, one of them being telescreens. These telescreens are not just something that a person could watch a good show on.

Social Control Is Oceania a fictional world or is it closer to reality than we think? In George Orwell’s 1984, the country our protagonist resides in uses different methods to control the nation to fit Big Brothers agenda. Social control is the most effective way to dominate a country, defined by Merriam-Webster as “the rules and standards of society that circumscribe individual action through the inculcation of conventional sanctions and the imposition of formalized mechanisms”. Big Brother uses police force and education to inflict fear and raise minions that blindly follow them. Unfortunately, these same methods used to control citizens in the fictional dystopian world of 1984 is utilized in America today.

Charles Darwin, founder of theory of evolution, once said, "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts." If the highest point is control over thoughts, then the lowest point must be when individuals have no control over their own minds. This is evident through Ingsoc regime's philosophy on thought control in Orwell's 1984 where people don't have freedom of thought. Another example which demonstrates how control over mind leads to corruption of humanity itself is through Stanley's criticism on 1984 where he illustrates that by controlling what is in minds of people government puts one in a stage of unconsciousness which helps gov abuse people as mindless machine. Moreover, North Korea and ISIS' government's manipulation of children's mind proofs that these children loose morals as a result of being dictated these thoughts and having it controlled by gov without even knowing it. Furthermore, the abuse of humanity through

It was a bright summer day going to waste for me, this is because my family does not let me go anywhere or do anything by myself. I did not want to go by these rules anymore so I had the “Bright” idea to sneak out. When eventually my mother found out I saw her more angry than I have ever seen her before. This came to my realization that people want control.

Orwell’s novel of 1984 depicts a dystopian society in which people are brainwashed with propaganda and bound to the chains of a strong dictatorship, also known as the Inner Party. Humanity has been filled with lies, as not a single person knows the truth that lies beneath the dictatorship. History is constantly being rewritten to mask their true identity. Any skeptical thoughts may make you disappear."Big Brother" is constantly observing you along with a telescreen watching every facial expression and recording any abnormal body language. However, two citizens called Winston and Julia rebel against "Big Brother's" totalitarian rule which triggers an astonishing warning towards future generations. Orwell is warning future generations of a society

In the novel 1984 George Orwell demonstrates how the government maintains power through mind control and manipulation of the masses. Orwell hints that when the government (Big Brother), holds too much power they become crooked and devious towards the rest of the population. In a nutshell Orwell is conveying that a corrupt government destroys all chances for an ideal society. Collectively, George Orwell made a prediction of what was going to happen, and it has become a reality to some extent. Overall this is a great book for the current political state.

The novel 1984 was written by George Orwell at the closing of the Second World War, where the political ideologies of the Stalin and Hitler regimes are combined and amplified. The story is set in Airstrip One, a province in the highly impoverished superstate of Oceania which is under the control of a totalitarian government. Oceania is also in perpetual war with three other superstates, and the Party utilizes various methods to retain their absolute control over the entire population. The Party runs under the ideology Ingsoc, a term used by the Party for English Socialism. The story revolves around the life of Outer Party member Winston Smith who unsuccessfully attempts to rebel against the Party and is ultimately erased from existence. By controlling every aspect of a citizen’s life and preventing the formation of political opposition, the Party is able to maintain their superiority. The Party uses three main tactics to remain in power: public manipulation, widespread government surveillance, and the concept of fear.

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

In the novel 1984, George Orwell portrays a world that has been altered to a state of political control. The lives and thoughts of a population are controlled by the government in 1984. It is impossible to successfully rebel against this type of totalitarian society because of the many scare tactics that rebels have to bear. George Orwell uses 1984 to criticize the devastating effects of totalitarianism, and the dystopia of his scary visions for the future. Within the totalitarian society is fear, rigid rules and regulations, as the Winston Smith attempts to rebel against Big Brother and the Thought Police. The rebels face difficulty in fighting against these intimidating strategies, and eventually fall because of fear. It is very dangerous to live in such a totalitarian society portrayed in 1984.

In the novel 1984 ever since the beginning of the book propaganda has been used by The Party to have absolute control over its people. The Party used a varieties of techniques to maintain their power. The telescreens, child spies, and the thought police. It is made important that the first job of the Party is to break down self confidence in the people. They focus on destroying peoples confidence in their common sense, ability to make their own decision and intelligence. How they party does this is through what they call double think. This is propaganda suggesting that if the people are having other thoughts then what The Party says it is a crime because it isn’t what the “truth” is.

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell Big Brother is portrayed as a main leader of the party . He controls the citizens of Oceania and sees that the citizens are obedient to the policies of the party. With the help of the telescreens , posters , Big Brother spied on each and every citizen .These were not only meant to control over the citizens , it was to make the people control themselves . One of the ways was the thought crime , as all the evil starts from mind , so the people that thought something bad were considered criminal and were arrested . The other factor that contributed in manipulating people's thinking was Newspeak , it was invented as it could eradicate the rebellious thoughts of the citizens . The main purpose of this was that the people cannot think bad and if they don't think bad they cannot take any rebellious action .

In 1948 George Orwell wrote 1984, it is about a dystopian future where a 39 year old man by the name Winston Smith begins to rebel against everything that he was taught was the truth. Big Brother controls Oceania, the country in which Winston lives, Big Brother has telescreens that not only watch your every move but they hear everything you say. If they feel that you are even thinking about rebelling then Big Brother sends in the Thought Police, the Thought Police will take you to the Ministry of Love until you confess your crimes then they either kill you publically or put you back into society. When Winston first started to rebel Julia then slipped him a note that simply said “I love you”, he knew that she was a rebel too since you were not aloud to

George Orwell creates a dark, depressing and pessimistic world where the government has total control over the masses in his book 1984. Winston, the protagonist is a Party member whom over a period of time has grown to resent the society that he lives in. Orwell manifests in his character Winston a lose in his sanity due to the constrictions of society. There are only two ways out either he secedes or reincorporates himself back into society. Winston knows that this would be the end of him yet he begins his journey into his own self-destruction. “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” was his first act of defiance, then he continues to write in his journal but only when hes drunk and hidden from the camera. He takes this defiance a step further by having an affair with his coworker which is illegal and prohibited in Big Brothers eye’s. And he keeps pushing the limit to his defiance against society by trying to join the Brotherhood an anti-Party movement created by Emmanuel Goldstein. Both Winston and Julia are eventually arrested by the Thought Police because Mr. Carrington turned out to be an