“Until they become conscious, they will never rebel” -George Orwell 1984. People can quite easily fall under the spell of others, in fiction, as well as real life. People in the world depicted in the fictional world of 1984 as well as in Pakistan shown in I am Malala. Winston from 1984 was faced with a decision, to fit the mold that The Party provided and to conform to their standards, or go against The Party and risk getting caught by the thought police, who monitor people’s thoughts. Even writing a diary risks getting put into a labor camp, or death. People in the real world face these types of issues as well. Malala, from I am Malala, lives in the SWAT Valley, which was being controlled by the Taliban Regime, while many of her rights had …show more content…
There’s a decent chance that you will join in as well, even if you don’t like the band playing. In the world of psychology, this is called mob mentality. Mob mentality is that if a large number of people are doing an action together, you will most likely join in. The government featured in 1984 know this, and have imposed a 2 minute long Hate everyday and a week of Hate. The hate consists of a video depicting Oceania's enemies, the eurasians and the eastasians. This Hate uses the weakness of mob mentality that most humans fall to. “Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room,” The people in the audience are depicted as yelling and screaming at the images of their enemies, and cheering and chanting at the face of big brother, as shown in the quote just stated. This quote is showing how after a mere 30 seconds of having the enemy depicted, half of the nearly full room are yelling obscenities at the film. This quote proves how the government of 1984 knows that mob mentality is effective in getting the citizens to conform. In the quote “In the second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy.” it is showing how the mob mentality has taken full effect on the crowd. The quiet woman that was sitting behind Winston was now yelling, screaming and reaching towards the
The novel “1984” by George Orwell exemplifies the issues of a government with overwhelming control of the people. This government controls the reality of all of their citizens by rewriting the past, instilling fear, and through manipulation. This is an astounding story because of the realistic qualities that are present throughout the text about an extreme regulatory government and its effects. This society is overwhelming consumed with the constructed reality that was taught to them by Big Brother. George Orwell brings significant aspects to the novel like the complexity of relationships during a rebellion and The Party’s obsession with power. The main character Winston struggles throughout the story trying to stay human through literature, self-expression and his individuality. The party uses human’s tendencies, weaknesses, and strengths in order to dehumanize their citizens to gain control over them.
A society that is run by hate can cause total chaos and destruction within its society causing its people to be untrusting of the government and also question its power and authority due to a belief of a conspiracy of the government. This so called hatred that exists in society consumes it people with remorse and anger against this totalitarian, corrupt government that seeks power and control over its people and society, which can cause a major revolt of its society against the government to try to seek the truth and their individual rights. In the classic novel, “1984”, written by George Orwell, he writes about a society in the city of London, called Oceania, in which Big Brother is in control of the society in every aspect of the people’s lives. Some examples of the governments power over society is the ideology of thought crimes, the creation of Newspeak, and telescreens that watch over and invade the privacy of their people. A society that is based on hate cannot survive and support its society because a society must depend upon happiness and its people in order to survive so it can achieve true happiness and tranquility.
Propaganda was a big contributor to the chaos and destruction among citizens of 1984. “Two Minutes of Hate” is one of the methods used in the novel. It is a program that broadcasts on television screens where Goldstein, the main rebellious man against the Party, is seen as a despicable figure of the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is a resistance group against Big Brother. The program claims that “all subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, and deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.” (Orwell). This translates to all of these acts are not in the standards of the dystopian society in Oceania. Some citizens believe that Big Brother is good and bad at the same time. Which bring us to another type of propaganda; Double-think.
What is real? This is a question that many of us don’t ask ourselves, we spend our days believing what we see as truth, but that is not always the case. In George Orwell’s book 1984 and in No One Died in Tiananmen Square an article by William Lutz, what we perceive as reality is put to question. Our reality exists in our own minds each one of us perceives life a different way, but since the mind can be manipulated the so our reality. One of the various (and most used) ways our reality can be manipulated is with propaganda.
Why do people that hate each other so much work better together than people who love each other? People who love each other never get the job done it seems, but people that hate each other get the job done fast and efficiently, have you ever wondered why? You may say maybe they get it done so fast just to get it over with so they don’t have to work side by side anymore, but maybe it might be because they take their work seriously and rather work together side by side rather than do it alone and fail. In George Orwell’s Novel 1984 the society they live in is based on hate yet it survives because they hate their ruler so much they end up confusing it with love and they become loyal under Big Brother's watchful eyes, fighting to please him and continue with his bidding. If any one person in the society is to express their hate for him they are sent to a place like a prison or more like a reform center to learn to disguise their hatred again by basically confusing the people into thinking they love him they manipulate their minds and they create a loyal subject once again, this is why I believe a society based on hate can survive because can easily be confused for love and hate can make a loyal person besides their negative feelings for the society.
Does one’s vote for U.S. President really count? In a U.S. Presidential Election, the American people vote for their preferred candidate; however, votes from a select group of people known as electors are the only ones that count in the election. George Orwell’s 1984 displays the dangers of giving a select group of people too much power, as it deprives the people of their voice in governmental matters. 1984 reflects how the people do not have an actual say of who becomes their leader. The Electoral College stands in the way of a true democracy in the United States.
“They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself remained impregnable (Orwell, 174.)” There are some citizens who realize that the inner heart and innate essence of the society members are the only things that aren’t able to be damaged by the Party. In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, the protagonist, Winston Smith, is one of the few citizens who knows it is difficult yet crucial and possible to “stay human,” by preserving the fundamental traits of humanity and resisting the Party’s abuse of those characteristics.
In the contemporary United States of America, individuals, ruled by a republican democracy, are encouraged to participate in social and political affairs. Citizens are provided with the right to voice their ideas and influence government should there be discontent. In a society built upon freedom and liberty, Americans are unimpeded, capable of striving for and attaining goals that they deem necessary for personal success and contribution to the overall community. In a plethora of ways, America is ideal in its advocacy of ‘rugged individualism’. In truth however, a deeper analysis reveals otherwise as the reality of the American society closely parallels with the hyperbolic dystopian society presented by George Orwell, in his novel, 1984.
Social aspects in the novel 1984 conforms to the conventions of the dystopian genre. Specifically, fear of the outside world and foreign people is spread to promote reliance on the government. “Then the sheep-face melted into the figure of an Eurasian soldier who seemed to be advancing, huge and terrible, his submachine gun roaring and seeming to spring out of the surface of the screen, so that some of the people in the front row actually flinched backwards in their seats. But then in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother…” (Orwell 15). This was Orwell’s description of the climax, when the treacherous Goldstein turns into an Eurasian killing machine by spraying
The totalitarian government loathes freedoms and deplores rebellion, and by combining these ideas they create the perfect conglomeration of ideas which pushes the people of Airstrip One even further down the ideologies that Big Brother approves of. Because of all this hate and rage being directed at Goldenstein, Eastasia, freedoms, and the rebellion, the people still are not aware of their own status as individuals creating an endless cycle ignorance. Another way the The Party exhibits control is through the use of the Two Minutes Hate. As it is described by Winston, it is “A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer…” (Orwell 14). The Two Minutes Hate activity utilizes some of the pent up frustrations the people have accumulated through not being able to exercise their freedoms and turns it into pure rage. Hate and anger course through the crowd as they are unable to form a single coherent thought that isn’t what the government wants them to think. The Party, for these two minutes, is able to create a stranglehold on the emotions of the people and can steer them in any direction they choose. Orwell demonstrates here how the themes of rage and loathing are going to play a big part in his novel as well as how government decreases unique thinking by playing up emotions rather than critical thinking. And the key part about the Hate period is that “...
Dystopian novels generally take up an idea or event which, by general agreement at a particular time may lead towards a negative development. The novels, in their distinctive imaginary world, develop that idea or event in a way so as to foretell what these can lead up to. 1984, a dystopian novel by George Orwell, takes up the case of Communist Revolution in the Soviet Union, especially the development it reached in the Stalin era. Among many key concepts the novel introduces the concept of ‘doublethink’. Which, in simple words, means holding two contradictory opinions at the same time with equal emphasis.
The main character in George Orwell’s 1948 novel, 1984, Winston Smith can be seen as many things. To some, he may be a hero, but to others he is a coward and a fool. Throughout the novel, Winston’s characteristics are explored, and readers are shown the reasoning behind Winston’s twisted mind. It is evident that although Winston thinks he had control over his own mind and body, this is an imagined factor. The world of 1984 is one of a totalitarian society, where no one can be trusted, and no one is safe, Winston being the primary example of one who trusted thoughtlessly.
When reading part one of 1984 by George Orwell many thoughts and questions popped into my head. Why would a powerful government rewrite and brainwash its citizens? Or why are they under constant surveillance? As I further read along something interested me. One of our main characters and protagonist, Winston, knows or believes that he knows all of the punishments that are done by the Thought Police and the Inner Party. He contemplates on whether or not he should start a diary. He knows it may not be a law in starting one, but he knows the dangers of it if the Thought Police would find it. This part catches my interest the most because he knows that he is doing something rebellious, yet he continues to go along with it since he
In 1984, the last and largest work of Orwell’s life, the oppression becomes even more sinister. Winston, a member of the “party,” decides to break away from the melancholy lifestyle in which “freedom is slavery” and rebel against the government that restrains him. The party even erases all of history and claims that reality is within the mind; “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” He becomes conscious of all the trickery and lies of the party and joins a secret organization to fight for freedom. The organization, however, is a lie and Winston is tortured until he learns to truly love Big Brother. 1984 makes prominent stabs at the
Malala story is a great example of a leader going out of their way so their citizens cannot know their rights. “Because it was not so long ago that I was nearly killed-simply because I was speaking out my rights to go to school.” (3) Malala believed that girls should receive an education because it is her right to have an education. The Taliban tried to attempt Malala from attending an education because if she was educated than she would have the knowledge to be take away power from the Taliban. The Taliban is scared that they will lose power because if one girl goes to school then she will inspire other girls to attend to school; and everyone knows that girls run the world.