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Today’s society is predicted as living in a world George Orwell envisioned in 1984. The system Orwell invented is compared to what the United States government is capable of doing. Government control of society is an essential subject due to the current mind set of the world today. In 1984, George Orwell represents how Big Brother is compared to today’s government, showing the consequences and dangers of a government with unlimited surveillance power.

George Orwell’s 1984 is more than just a novel, it is a warning to a potential dystopian society of the future. Written in 1949, Orwell envisioned a totalitarian government under the figurehead Big Brother. In this totalitarian society, every thought and action is carefully examined for any sign of rebellion against the ruling party. Emotion has been abolished and love is nonexistent; an entire new language is being drafted to reduce human thought to the bare minimum. In a society such as the one portrayed in 1984, one is hardly human. In George Orwell’s 1984, the party uses fear, oppression, and propaganda to strip the people of their humanity.

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.

Whether Orwell is recreating the ghastly atmosphere of fear and torture in Nazi Germany or in the most repressive part of the Stalinist regime, we see clearly the opposition between the charismatic leader and his inner corps of privileged lieutenants, and the collective mass of dehumanised persons who are no longer individuals. Paradoxically,

1984 is an eye-opening novel written by George Orwell. Orwell wrote the novel in 1949 to outline how he projected society would be in 1984 if progress continued upon its current track. Orwell published the book as a warning that society must be careful about progress for progress’s sake, or conditions could end up similar to the way society is in his work 1984. The novel is divided into three chapters, or books, each with multiple subunits, and these sections tell the story in chronological order. The book ends with an appendix on the principles of newspeak, the new language of Oceania.

In the midst of a world completely blind to the truth, there was a man who’s seditious thoughts opened our eyes to a destructive future. Eric Blair, most commonly known as George Orwell, was born in Bengal and brought up in a society divided by social classes. Orwell graduated from Eton and decided to drop out of college to join the Indian Imperial police in Burma, where he experienced the cruelty of the world. He had an epiphany after returning back to England and was suddenly consumed in translating his fervent emotions of hatred and anger into words. World War II has just ended after a long period of constant war over land, minerals and weapons when Orwell began

1984, Orwell’s last and perhaps greatest work, deals with drastically heavy themes that still terrify his audience after 65 years. George Orwell’s story exemplifies excessive power, repression, surveillance, and manipulation in his strange, troubling dystopia full of alarming secrets that point the finger at totalitarian governments and mankind as a whole. What is even more disquieting is that 1984, previously considered science fiction, has in so many ways become a recognizable reality.

t has been sixty-six years since the first printing of George Orwell’s acclaimed book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Almost seven decades have passed and many still wonders, was Orwell right? Has our society become a totalitarian wasteland? Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel, taking place in what Orwell calls Airstrip One, or what is known today as England. When one closely observes the happenings in today’s world, one can see evidence of the Orwellian predictions that are established in the book. With those events, there are many parallels between Nineteen Eighty-Four and our society today with the usage of government surveillance, the decadence of language, and the annihilation of culture.

Psychological control is a major theme throughout 1984 and Orwell shows this theme is possible by giving examples of how a totalitarian government could gain psychological control using their power to control history and technology. George Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning to people of what might come in the future if people were not careful about our government. During the time Orwell

First published in 1949, Orwell certainly believed that the novel would have some higher purpose in the political sphere, and it did. But perhaps it wasn’t the purpose that was truly intended? Nearly seventy years after its first appearance, 1984 can be found on many high school, college and political group reading lists. Coining terms such as “Big Brother,” or “thoughtcrime,” the novel created an entirely new type of dystopian society defined by many as “Orwellian.” But with close reading one can see that George Orwell wrote 1984 for a very specific purpose. In 1984 Orwell writes about the dangers of deviating from a true socialist society.

In the year 1944, famous author, George Orwell, composed a novel about a dystopian society called 1984. Telescreens that observe everything someone does, children who turn in their parents for ideas about overthrowing the government, and a clueless society surviving on only what the government tells them were the main problems in Orwell's novel. Consequently, Orwell's purpose for writing this novel was not to predict what the future of society would be like, but more as a warning. He warns of the problems with advanced technology and a growing need for power among the government. This futuristic novel, about advanced technology consuming the lives of the people, brought forth numerous concerning thoughts about the future of society.

1984, by George Orwell is a novel depicting life within a totalitarian government, where there is no freedom and they control all features of human life. George Orwell exposes the ways of this system through the point of view of, Winston Smith, the main character. Big Brother represents the oppressive figure and the Party. The Party conducts numerous experimental methods to implement their totalitarian system to its participants, methods such as manipulation to the language they spoke and the way they thought. The party frightens the citizens by threatening them with violence and torture and the government controls everything and everyone. The technology

1984 a novel by George Orwell was written in 1949. It has received nothing but good reviews since the day it was published. Many relish over the unique writing style and interesting plot. But, one of the most significant features of this novel is how close it came to directly predicting the future. The government described in 1984 was almost an exaggerated version of the government in 1949. The government was described as controlling and unforgiving, but how does this related to our government now? 1984 by George Orwell expresses ideas and theories about the government’s real control and influence on what the population sees, hears, and does.

George Orwell’s 1984 is presented as a cautionary story of what our future could be headed towards. Orwell’s writing comes out of a passion for freedom, justice and more than anything, truth. The novel is a dark and twisted representation of a dystopian society, where the government has complete control over its subjects. Oceania’s totalitarian government and Big Brother, the person who ostensibly leads this government, takes full control of its clueless members minds, values, and their lives as whole. Big Brother takes control by using brain washing and various forms of propaganda to influence the citizens of Oceania. Orwell casts the theme of totalitarianism in 1984 through the acts of Big Brother, its control

Humans can never truly predict or create the future, but shaping ideas based on current governmental issues creates a potential warning for what the future has to offer. Warnings for the future, as shown in George Orwell’s 1984, hold ideas that are created to expose society in its totalitarianism ways in a hope to prevent the end product. Orwell effectively represents the warning of a totalitaristic government by creating a dystopian society in which thoughts are manufactured, and the idea that who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past.