George Orwell 's 1984, The Party Controls

1984 is a fictional novel written by one George Orwell. According to BBC history, “Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer.” Nineteen eighty-four centers around a man named Winston Smith, a Party member, who works for the government erasing and rewriting history. The government (the Party) is focused around the character of ‘Big Brother’ the overseer. It has just about total control over its people, using telescreens to watch their every move and to spit pro-government propaganda at them twenty-four seven. Along with the telescreens, people called the thought police can also report people for not following the rules or committing a thought crime. The language is also modified, getting smaller every year so there are fewer and fewer ways to criticize the government and share information. Winston starts as a bit of a rebel and slowly ups the ante by having original thoughts, having sex, being in love, and meeting with the (perceived) rebel leader. His whole world crumbles when he gets caught with his lover and broken by the government. By the end of the book, he is a brainwashed member of society again. People speculate that Orwell wrote this as a warning, to make sure that people know that this could happen in lieu of Soviet Russia and

For decades, governments all over the world have abused their power ; whether it was erasing events in history, not releasing the full story of wars and crimes, or using surveillance on their citizens without them knowing. This was brought to life in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. The novel follows Winston Smith during the year 1984 in a dystopian society. The government is called the Party and is led by Big Brother, who has full control over the entire Oceania (London), along with the slogan “Big Brother is watching you,” put all over the city. The slogan is enforced by hidden cameras and microphones everywhere, including homes, and spies pretending to be average people. The Party has the citizens who work in the Ministry of Truth erase things that are in the newspaper that go against the government and what they want the city to see. The government in 1984 is similar to the government in the United States in present day.

George Orwell’s novel, 1984, focuses on heavily on a fairly small lineup of characters, mainly focusing on the central character and protagonist, Winston Smith whose central conflict stems from his moral discontent with the tyrannical Party. Winston is an ultimately very relatable character, an ordinary man who finds himself fighting for his very existence as an individual against the unrelenting will of the government. Unlike Julia, the only other confirmed rebel in the novel, Winston’s insurrection is based off of ideals and he remains curious about how Oceania works and, more importantly, why it functions the way it does.

Governments are very complex systems in modern society controlling many activities throughout individuals lives. A few of the many being simple or inmate pleasures such as chocolate and sex. In Orwell’s 1984, all sort of emotions are eliminated by the party. Throughout the book and even modern time countries such as North Korea have we seen the smallest of pleasures being eliminated for the sake of the country. Control and power being the prime drive of the government's to keep going on with the country. Prime symbols are widely targeted in 1984 to further acknowledge the growth of it in modern society. Controlling these small things have proved many adversaries that it has worked for them and would continue to work for them if they continue with that path.

In George Orwell’s famous book 1984, the Party runs the slogan “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (Orwell 74). This slogan is a common idea when it comes to The Ministry of Truth. The Ministry of Truth is Orwell’s way of predicting both modern day media manipulation and propaganda because it shows how the media can and does change the past, present, and future. In 1984 propaganda is used to manipulate the population by turning them against one man, Goldstein, as a distraction so that the Party can do as it pleases. The Party is obsessed with the idea of having power at all costs, and obtains power by keeping the public controlled. Modern-day mass media and advertising is a reflection of

North Korea claims to be a democratic republic, but others think differently; they are controlled by one leader and their military. In George Orwell’s 1984 the people are put under strict censoring and under a close watch. In 1984 the people look up to a figure of power referred to as “Big Brother”. The people of North Korea look up to their leader Kim Jong-un. Both the governments of North Korea and Oceania in 1984 are strict and brainwash their people.

Have you ever imagined a life where someone is watching you all the time and even what you are thinking for 24 hours? In SF novel the 1984 by George Orwell, everyone who lives in Oceania is controlled by the ruler called the Big Brother. People who live there do not realize that they do not have the freedom and human rights at all. This unbelievable situation in the novel is occurring in today’s society as well. In North Korea, they have a totalitarian dictatorships like the novel 1984, which should not happen in the world. Unlike the improved technology in the novel 1984, North Korea blocked all technologies. Even though they have same totalitarian dictatorship, North Korea and the Big Brother have different ways of controlling and treating their citizens.

The book 1984 was written by George Orwell in the year 1949. It was written in response to a new form of government, totalitarianism. A form of government which tries to control every aspect of its citizens’ lives. This book was meant to exist as a sort of warning. To show what would happen to the free world if it was taken hold of by such a form of government.

In 1948, a prestigious diligent British columnist, George Orwell, composed his acclaimed novel 1984, in which he portrayed a totalitarian culture where individuals had no flexibility to express their musings without apprehension. In this novel, the administration, keeping in mind the end goal to breaking point residents' ability of contemplating edited subjects, developed another dialect, Newspeak, which generally utilized double speaks for precluding restricted words. In Newspeak, numerous words were essentially barred, in light of the fact that if there was no word to decide a wrongdoing, then the wrongdoing itself couldn't be submitted. This emphatically associates to the cutting edge marvels of political correctness, which has a comparable methodology and ethical value.

In George Orwell’s, 1984, a totalitarian and communist-like government is portrayed, in a futuristic world that allows no freedom of speech, religion, or even thought. The citizens of Oceania, the setting of the novel, had absolutely no freedom of doing anything. They were totally controlled and were immediately terminated if one was to disobey any rule. The “Party” was basically the name for the community and everyone that followed the ways of The Party. Anyone who was against The Party was “vaporized”, with their identification completely erased from any records and their existence completely forgotten. Every move anyone made was carefully watched by the “telescreens”, placed in every room, every street, every corner, and

Privacy is an important issue, especially in the United States where the NSA looms over the internet, tracking your every move. Privacy is what allows you to maintain your own individualism, what makes you a person and especially your freedom. A growing debate concerning Orwell’s 1984 relevancy is quickly on the rise. Orwell’s fear of a totalitarian society led him to write this book as he lived during the totalitarian movement in Russia. The fear of a totalitarian society spreading sparked his fear and wrote this book to make people understand that it is not beneficial to society. I feel that with the the National Security Agency in the United States, the issue and relevancy of 1984 has never been higher. The public is discovering on a daily basis that the NSA has much more control than previously thought. Despite the fact that 1984 was published in 1949, it is still very much a relevant topic today as the United States gradually turns into the level of surveillance that Orwell had predicted in his novel.

Is it possible for a totalitarian government to succeed if it’s citizens don’t fight back against them? In the novel 1984, George Orwell does not depict what could happen in the future but rather, what would happen to society if an oppressive totalitarian government were to gain control over its citizens. “Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” - George Orwell. Unless people are aware of what problems are around them, they will never do anything to resolve the problem. The “party” or government in Oceania

As an illustration of the necessity for knowledge, George Orwell’s novel 1984, describes a society which is built on the ignorance and obedience of its citizens, displaying a civilization that is completely deprived of intellectual decisions. In Orwell’s negative utopian realm, the government, or “big brother,” has total control of the media, historical records, and for the most part, resident’s thoughts. As a result of the political tyranny, people’s minds have been

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.

George Orwell, along with several other famous authors, has significant interest in the English language, along with the power of language in general. Orwell discovers that language has the power to distort the truth and deceive people, and, in 1984, he uses language in order to draw awareness to the power of language collectively. Orwell achieves this by placing a great emphasis on Newspeak and the effects of the Party’s media in his novel, 1984. By revealing the recurring abuse of language by the Party and its media, Orwell demonstrates exactly how language can be utilized to deceive and manipulate people. In 1984, it has led to a society in which the people incontestably yield to their government — which in this case is the Party — and numbly accept all of the Party’s propaganda as if it were the truth. In 1984, language itself has become a powerful tool in the process of brainwashing, with the Party’s eventual goal being the decimation of free-will, expression, and the ability to imagine.