Government Oppression In George Orwell's 1984

People hear about political issues all over the news and form their own opinions on them, but are they really deciding beliefs for themselves or are they just believing whatever the media tells them? Because of the modern day media biased, many people do not think independently, even when they think they are. They merely believe the lies the media feeds them and do not research the matter themselves to get an accurate idea of what is truly going on and how the control of information will impact the world around them. Because of people’s tendency to accept any piece of information that gets shoved down their throats, the US is slowly digging itself into the same government-controlled, no-freedom world as in the book 1984 by George Orwell.

1984 is a cautionary tale. A cautionary tale is a tale that is told in a folklore, to warn they people reading of danger. There are three different parts to a cautionary tale, though they can be introduced in a lot of different ways. What I think about whether or not we as a society have taken his cautions into account is good. Letting the government what to think. They are taking information from 1984 and having yourself and not letting anyone else tell you what yo say. Your getting information right from a source for you to make before you create an opinion about it. 1984 is about the government controlling what you say. I think it's a cautionary tale because it is telling you

Another reason why the book 1984 is still relevant in today's society is still relevant in today's is the fact that both governments infringed on the personal freedoms of their people. In the book 1984 any kind of fun was shunned. People in the book were forced to act like mindless drones and they acted like such due to the fact that they were constantly monitored. According to Keri Blakinger of the New York Times, The book

Mass surveillance is a word that has been thrown around every so often in the last few decades, especially ever since George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although this book was released over 60 years ago, some aspects of the book are seeming to become true in the United States, and other parts of the world today. The idea of mass surveillance isn’t so taboo anymore, as there are several programs ran by sovereign countries around the world which monitor their domestic citizens, as well as citizens and leaders of other foreign countries. With all of our technological communication advances since 1949, this age of information is only going to get more severe, and more tracking and monitoring will be done. The biggest offender of doing

1984 was written after World War II with an intention to warn its readers of what could come if he or she was not careful. In 1936, Orwell ventured to Spain to write about the Spanish Civil War which handed

Despite 1984 being written more than 60 years ago, it is still relevant to this day. The book 1984 contains many aspects that can still be relatable today. It also serves as a warning for the future that still applies today.

1984 is complex in the way it was written, the society has a sort or language it seems called doublethink. Doublethink is a backwards thing it makes things that are usually said the opposite of what they are usually, in example in

George Orwell’s key objective throughout his novel, 1984, was to convey to his readers the imminent threat of the severe danger that totalitarianism could mean for the world. Orwell takes great measures to display the horrifying effects that come along with complete and dominant control that actually comes along with totalitarian government. In Orwell’s novel, personal liberties and individual freedoms that are protected and granted to many Americans today, are taken away and ripped from the citizen’s lives. The government takes away freedom and rights from the people so that the ruling class (which makes up the government), while reign with complete supremacy and possess all power.

George Orwell succeeded in creating a story that gives a very bleak and possible future. Since the future is unknown, there are a near infinite possibilities for stories, each as possible as the next. 1984 offers a different kind of look into the future. The majority of books that depict the future show a hopeful version of the future. Even other dystopian stories give the characters hope in some way shape or form. 1984 depicts a future with no hope and any hope that is given is immediately taken away. “’If you are a man Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are nonexistent.’” (Orwell 270). O’Brien’s words in this passage take any hope from Winston that men might prevail over the Party. This bleak portrayal is Orwell’s way of warning that the only way to stop this future is to prevent it before it happens. For once this future comes to be, there is no stopping it.

George Orwell uses his novel 1984 to convey that human beings, as a species, are extremely susceptible to dehumanization and oppression in society. Orwell demonstrates how a government’s manipulation of technology, language, media, and history can oppress and degrade its citizens.

The novel 1984 caused me to be suspicious of government ideals. The novel allowed me to visualize Oceania and to live through the characters. It made me realize the capabilities and power of the government, and that if it were to become corrupt, it would be able to have complete control over the population. The disturbing mind control and manipulation discussed in the book could become normalities in our society. In 1984 George Orwell successfully portrayed the terrifying capabilities of the government.

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When analyzing 1984 through a critical lens, a reader may be able to look through the historical lens to understand what was happening in the world around the author and how it influenced their writing. There are quite a few things that helped Orwell write this masterpiece of a novel, and a lot of it can stem back to the historical period as to which 1984 was written.

What is the most appalling depicted in 1984 is the lack of ego consciousness. Human is only a mass of mobile flesh knowing neither love nor happiness. They do not even reason or think. Life is meaningless except for those in the Inner Party. But no one has any knowledge about what life really means and should be like, and there is no difference between people 's life--everyone shares the same dressing, the same expression, the same thinking, etc. Every doubt is quelled by force by the Party. I guess that is similar to what happened during the 1960s in China. No trust among people, even parents had to be wary of being given away by their children. Under such circumstance, knowledge and self-awareness is agonizing and fatal. People have to live against

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.