George Orwell's Psychological Lens

very entertaining towards people who have interest in politics and it will also help writers who are beginners by providing them with better knowledge in writing skills. I also think that Orwell provided good, clear, and simple examples to have better understanding to his argument. I also believe that he explained how language could affect thought in a moral way.

Thirty-three years ago, the terrifying vision that novelist George Orwell dreamt of in 1949 never became the reality he foretold it would within the preceding ten decades or so. The year 1984 was presumed to plummet society into utter chaos, becoming a global dystopia in which everyone lived under the regulation and the dominance of one of three totalitarian superstates. Orwell poured out his predictions into the pages of his book, 1984, creating the fictional universe of Oceania in which the lives of Winston Smith and the other characters living in the superstate give the expression of being genuinely real, especially due to author’s the use of various literary devices. For instance, motifs such as the linguistic concept of Newspeak and the majority of society’s convergence of feelings towards the Party and Big Brother appear multiple times throughout the novel. At the hand of such persisting ideas, a major theme stands out - the lack of self-expression. Living under an authoritarian and oppressive government, party members such as Winston are compelled to pursue the socialist policies of Ingsoc. In the book it is written that, “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of dependent thought” (Orwell 193). If the general populace of Oceania were to submit the Party, self-expression would be entirely eliminated because everyone and everything would be censored. With such motives made clear,

George Orwell's 1984 What look on humanity and human nature, if any, can be seen through this book, 1984?

To any regular student, two and two equals four, analyzing is a chore, and George Orwell’s 1984 is nothing more than the psyche of the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith. However, when such a student disregards a mundane way of thinking and adheres to Thomas C. Foster’s, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, it becomes blatantly obvious that two plus two could indeed equal five as Smith’s psyche could very well as easily become theirs. No novel is ever simply just a novel and with chapters such as “Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires”, “It’s All Political”, “Yes, She’s a Christ Figure Too”, and “...Except Sex” from Foster’s literary guide provide insight into the abstractness

He demonstrates this idea through Winston’s psychological failure to cope with the cruel reality and what Big Brother wants. The dystopian society in 1984 not only governs with total control over the people, but also fundamentally restricts people’s ability to think freely. The government dictates this domination through the power of the “Thought Police.” Winston on the other hand struggles with severe internal conflicts. Orwell articulates, “He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side” (Orwell 25)? What Orwell is expressing about the dystopian government is that they are spreading nonsense beliefs using fear out of people. He uses simile to expresses Winston’s internal conflict in the totalitarian government when he writes, “he felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom.” Orwell is comparing an intimidating world that Winston confronts with the idea of doublethink. The “forest” is a place where one gets lost and the “sea bottom” is a place where only darkness exists. Orwell further support the idea of doublethink when he says, “lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster,” using situational irony.

The Thought Police are the most insidious aspect of the dystopian society of 1984 by George Orwell because it destroys the relationship among the people while also destroying the freedom of choice and corrupting the future. The Thought Police are a group of individuals who are kept hidden and serves a purpose to monitor the populace for any signs of unorthodox thought or action and then afterwards to punish them. The Thought Police are sneaky because they superficially appear to just be people who are invested in the safety and security of Oceania, which does not seem evil. However, in reality, these brainwashed people greatly contribute to the fault of this dystopia. By being committed to Oceania, there is no longer trust within relationships

Throughout George Orwell’s 1984, the phrases “ War is peace.” “Freedom is slavery.” and Ignorance is strength.” are often repeated and have become the Mantra of Oceania, the country formerly known as England. These statements seem contradictory and ridiculous to readers, so how can they make so much sense to the people of Oceania? How can a country push such backwards ideas on millions of people, making them dependent droids? It appears ludacris yet, humans have used psychological manipulation throughout history to gain control. James McTeigue’s V for Vendetta has the same manipulative aspects throughout its own story as well, creating parallels in not only these two fictional worlds, but also our own.

George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, examines a society in which the overwhelming domination of Oceania’s leading party of the totalitarian government, Ingsoc, causes its citizens to become automatons—except for one citizen: the protagonist, Winston Smith. Like the masses, Winston is subjected to the regime’s use of constant surveillance, alteration of historical records and memories, psychological and ideological manipulation, and torture. Although Winston is subjected to the regime’s various manipulations, which have the final goal of eliminating all individualism, Winston stands out from the masses. Throughout the novel, Winston actively rebels against the regime primarily by having independent thought and by forming a meaningful relationship with another citizen, a relationship that is restricted by the regime. As Orwell depicts Winston’s strong desire for individuality, he compels readers to pay attention to the totalitarian regime’s deliberate restraint of distinctiveness. By using Winston’s role to demonstrate the importance of individual thought and meaningful relationships in the identity of a human being, Orwell suggests that a totalitarian regime demands the loss of individuality in order to have and preserve total control.

Imagine observing someone who is shackled with absolutely nowhere to go. Their head and body are both in restraints with only a dreary wall to look at. Sadly, they can’t even turn around to see what’s causing them the distress. What can they do? Do they sit and create their own misconceptions, or do they stand up and seek out questions? This scenario may be difficult to fully grasp. However, this is what Plato was trying to explain to the reader in his book The Republic. He tries to present his explanation by way of the Allegory of the Cave. In this analysis, I will argue that the concept of self-delusion is the central concept in Plato’s illustration. I will discuss how this concept influenced George Orwell’s 1984, and how the characters’ misconceptions from the two texts help exert an influence on the real world today.

George Orwell wrote 1984 as his vision of society in the year 1984. Winston is the main

2. The introductory chapters in George Orwell’s 1984, acquaint the reader with the harsh and oppressive world of Oceania. The reader experiences this world through the perspective of Winston Smith, a protagonist in the novel. Orwell illustrates Winston’s life in a society that is controlled by a totalitarian regime; the Party. Like many other citizens in Oceania, Winston is subjected to physical and phycological cruelties, however, his individualistic and pensive qualities cause him to question the orders of the Party.

In “1984,” by George Orwell, psychological control creates conflict for the protagonist and influences the meaning of the novel as a whole. For example, the official slogan of the Party “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength,” serves as an introduction to the Party’s ideology of “doublethink.” The strength and independence of Winston’s and other individuals’ mind’s is weakened and forces them to live in constant fear, this allows the Party to force its citizens to accept anything it orders, even when it is quite illogical. Similarly in part one, chapter VII, “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made give and you would have to believe it….Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the totalitarian government is adamant that all citizens not only follow its policies, but wholeheartedly agree with them. In order to maintain his individuality and avoid the Thought Police, Winston lies about his allegiance to the government and his beliefs and thoughts. He learns that his lies are weak and shallow after he is caught, and he eventually realizes the true power of his lies when he deceives himself. The totalitarian government Orwell presents encourages deception as a means of survival, increasing the government’s power when the citizens are eventually driven to lie to themselves. As the Party grows stronger and individuality crumbles, Orwell displays the loss of humanity as a result of a government built on deception.

The Communist Party is considered as a bad government. The Party which Big Brother, a head figure, leader is even worse than Communism. One of the huge differences between the two parties is the idea of torturing the people. A kind of brutal torture, not physical torture, but psychological torture and causing people live in crisis. Through psychological manipulation, the Party is able to make everything it lies become the truth that it desires. When psychological is instability, thinking about a regime overthrown is almost not possible. In 1984 by George Orwell, the Inner Party manipulates the population through torture since birth. The lives of the people are being deprived of freedoms, became a docile slave, serving an anonymous inhuman

Orwell’s warning of the dangers of totalitarian regimes to his contextual readers and future audiences is portrayed through his novel, 1984, because “Big Brother is Watching You”, exerting total control over the masses. The masses are effectively controlled by the thought police, telescreens and children who are “against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations”.... Orwell writes about the potential dangers that are inherent when power and technology are abused, resulting in mindless citizens and “a world of fear and hatred and torment”, which Winston perfectly captures with his metaphorical epiphany; “we are the dead”. Like the dead, society will become opiated, lacking individual thought, a highly valued asset of