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Effects Of Totalitarianism In 1984 By George Orwell

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Totalitarian Domination In George Orwell’s 1984, the society is negatively impacted by Big Brother and the Party’s totalitarian control, the limitations on individual expressiveness, and what it means to be “human”. Through the customs of one society, Orwell predicts what our future world could look like if we allow our government unregulated control. Issues such as the lack of input from community members and the lack of question towards laws and the customs created solely by Big Brother and the Party pose a largely negative effect on the improvement and survival of our society. Additional issues with a totalitarian government include the issue of persuasion over true belief. The society depicted in “1984” is fully monitored and leaves …show more content…

Unregulated control is an issue because only the higher power are making laws that apply to a whole assortment of people. These higher power groups are typically within the same belief groups and tend to generalize their laws and customs without the consideration of a diverse community. In “1984”, Big Brother and the Party are the totalitarian government that oversee all laws and customs created and enforced. Without the consideration of an entire community in the creations of laws that govern the community there leaves no room for improvement. If laws are never questioned then some laws that applied to years ago when life was different are still practiced today where life is much more developed and educated, then the society is stuck in a dangerous pattern that leaves no room for …show more content…

Then we control the past, do we not?” (260). This amount of control is dangerous. It poses a negative effect on its community members by altering their outlook on past, present and future happenings. The Party uses this type of control to keep their people from individual belief and thinking. Only what is seen through the eyes of Big Brother are the real truth and what actually exists. Winston, the main character and subject in “1984” is told he is a flaw in the pattern. This “flaw” the Party speaks about is a man who thought individually and made choices on his own without merging himself both externally and internally with Big Brother. O’Brien, a member of the Party, says, “You are a stain that must be wiped out.” (267). Instead of destroying Winston, they condition him until he succumbs under his own free will. The negative impact that keeping a pattern adds to society is the Party’s ability to change the way their people live, act, think, and believe in order to have an indistinguishable

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