George Orwell 1984 Analysis

In 1984, by George Orwell violence contributed to the plot by having three stages of reintegration. The stages are to learn, understand, and to accept, Winston was forced to learn that 2+2=5 under torture, understanding that the party is good, and seeks power for its own. Winston accepts and understands the Party and Big Brother as soon as Winston wishes the burden of torture on someone else who he loves, and to learn that Big Brother is eternal and that 2+2=5, Winston then is committed and loyal to the Party and its understands purpose, as he awaits his execution to prove his devotion to the party.

In the world of 1984 by George Orwell surveillance is another word for complete control and spying. In the world created by George Orwell the party or “Big Brother” has a full control over its citizens to the point where it uses “Telescreens” to surveillance everyone's daily activity and their thoughts. Orwell predicts that the world we live in today is going to come to that point where the government is going to track everyone’s activity. In other word “ Big Brother is watching.”

In George Orwell's novel 1984, the strict and controlling government known as Big Brother controls and observes the citizens through numerous kinds of technology. The government controls people through telescreens, helicopters, as well as the ''writing machines'' used in the Ministry of Truth. The government has the ability to keep complete power over their citizens. While the author's idea of technology is advanced for his own time, they should not be discharged and overlooked. With the way technology continues to develop and evolve, we may be defenceless and unable to envision how it may affect us in the future. If technology is misused, it can be controlling, devastating and evil.

The name Oceania in this post will refer to 1984's Oceania and not current day Oceania.

There are very clearly many ways that the Party controls their society in George Orwell’s

“If you want to keep a secret, you must first hide it from yourself.” In George Orwell’s “1984,” in order for your privacy to not be invaded not only do you need to hide things from people but from yourself as well. “1984” is a story about a dystopian society where people are watched and controlled by technology and are forced to believe what the Party and Big Brother want them to. The privacy issues in 1984 relating to the big idea of manipulation and control, are relevant in social media, video surveillance, and the ability to use propaganda to control our thoughts.

We live in a world of technology. It surrounds us like a cloud or a blanket of information and connectivity. Every day governments around the world are using more private surveillance tactics. The US government is heavily tapping into this cloud of information and the public 's privacy is being reduced and we are inching closer and closer to constant, total surveillance. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, those who aren’t living on the street live under constant surveillance. Those fortunate enough to live in one of the decrepit apartment buildings sacrifice their privacy and their freedom, while working for the government that controls them. Telescreens monitor everything, while people are forced to live in awful conditions.

In the book 1984 by George Orwell, the primary character Winston Smith feels embittered by the control and oppression of the Party, which forbids any form of thinking and individuality. Winston illegally purchases a diary to write down his criminal thoughts: “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (61) Despite this being a thoughtcrime, Winston’s courage overpowers the fear he has whenever he writes in his diary in hopes for a revolution against the Party. He believes that the proles make up majority of the population of Oceania, and can overcome the strength of the Thought Police. However, the ignorant proles have no interest in rebelling because nearly all of them

Imagine a world where everything you knew had to be forgotten, and you knew nothing more then what was being told to you. In George Orwell’s book 1984 this is exactly the case. Winston Smith, a middle aged man, lives a life already planned for him. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth rewriting the news and other articles to follow the teachings of Big Brother. Big Brother is the leader of Oceania, one of three world powers, and aims to rewrite the past to control the present. Oceania is separated into three separate castes: the Inner party, the Outer party, and the proles. Winston is part of the Outer party, or the middle class. The Inner party is the leading rich class and the proles are the lower, poorer class. While most characters follow the rules and accept the ideas of the society, others are very unorthodox. 1984, by George Orwell, has three noticeably unorthodox characters: Winston Smith, Julia, and O’ Brien.

To live in a world where such freedom does not exist is inhumane and surreal. It would seem impossible to live in such place, where you’re watched at all times, you’re banned from having an opinion, and you’re even prohibited from thinking. However, in the novel 1984, George Orwell effortlessly demonstrates the tyrannical power of the government, as it controls over its citizens lives and even manipulates them into believing that “Freedom is Slavery.” Orwell tells the story of Winston Smith as he battles to dominate his own life against the Party in the nation Oceania, located in London. 1984, illustrates the communist behavior of the Party, in which no one in the nation is strong enough to overpower the abusive government.

George Orwell’s 1984 and BBC’s How does the Chinese government review your thinking? both depict the powerful government monitors every aspect of the lives of its citizens. In 1984, the government uses the telescreen to detect instances of rebellion. The government thinks every citizen is “worth watching” and need to keep twenty-four hours a day “under the eyes of the police.” In China, where the Communist Party's one-party Big Brother ruled, the government can arbitrarily dispatch any resources to exercise full-scale monitoring of citizens, use illegally acquired information to capture citizens, and convict citizens of conviction and sentencing.

The society of oppression depicted in the book 1984 was written as a warning of

By instinct, humans desire a way to communicate. Human instinct pushes people to find ways to tell anyone who will listen about the good, bad, safe, and plain psychotic. Therefore, people found a way to do so through language. Language allows them to do all of the above as well as leading people to a way to improve their intelligence. Through people's ability to now communicate fluidly and improve their intelligence it allowed them to understand the world around them. Before, live was what it is, but now they saw it differently. They could see the tyrannical powers, the unfair laws, and other injustices of the world. However, the society in George Orwell’s 1984 lost its connection and understanding of language and allowed a power to take control

Within reading the first ten pages of 1984 by George Orwell, some of the major themes have become evident. My first impression was that Oceania is ruled by a dystopian government that oppresses the people. Most of Oceania is populated by the poor. The main character, Winston Smith, lives in Victory Mansions. On page one it is said that in Winston’s apartment that, “The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and rag mats.” Winston didn’t bother taking the lift because, “even at the best of times it was seldom working,...”. At the end of the hall was a large poster of Big Brother, which could be seen from all floors of the apartment complex. The eyes of Big Brother seemed to be following you wherever you went. The recurring quote of Big Brother is “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU,” which ran beneath the poster on the wall.

The novel 1984 is a futuristic totalitarian society where everyone is kept under close surveillance and is forced to follow all rules and laws of the state. The novel 1984 was written by George Orwell and published in 1950. The main characters were Big Brother, Winston Smith, Julia, O’Brien, Syme and Emmanuel Goldstein. Winston Smith is a low man on the totem pole when it came to the ruling Party in London, Oceania. His every move is watched by the Party through devices called telescreens. Posted everywhere around the city is the face of their leader, “Big Brother” informing them that he is always watching. He works in the “Ministry of Truth” which is ironic seeing that they alter history to fit the liking of the Party. As this book continues Winston challenged the laws and skirts around the fact that he is always being watched. His shocking and rebellious act is “falling in love.” Throughout this novel George Orwell utilizes symbolism to further enhance the totalitarian features of the society. In many ways these symbols represent the things that this society hasn’t experienced and doesn’t understand.