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George Orwell’s 1984 is more than just a novel, it is a warning to a potential dystopian society of the future. Written in 1949, Orwell envisioned a totalitarian government under the figurehead Big Brother. In this totalitarian society, every thought and action is carefully examined for any sign of rebellion against the ruling party. Emotion has been abolished and love is nonexistent; an entire new language is being drafted to reduce human thought to the bare minimum. In a society such as the one portrayed in 1984, one is hardly human. In George Orwell’s 1984, the party uses fear, oppression, and propaganda to strip the people of their humanity.

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.

No one knew if what they remembered was true or not because of all the false stories put into their heads. In Orwell’s novel, the rebels were beaten and the soul they once had floated away to never come back. “We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you up. You have seen what your body is like. Your mind is in the same state. I do not think… You have whimpered for mercy, you have betrayed everybody and everything. Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?” (Orwell, 273). This is clear proof that Winston was tortured and beaten into believing what the government wanted him to. He hated Big Brother his whole life and now the person that he was once was had been taken away from him. A new and government improved version appeared. No flaws, no doubts, no anger, just confidence that everything Big Brother said was true.

The past was constantly being rewritten; a newspaper written today would be rewritten by the end of the week. Big Brother would change the past to give him power over the future. In chapter three, Winston mentions the Party slogan: “Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.” This slogan along with this quote are significant to 1984 because they explain how powerful and controlling The Party is over every aspect of life. In the book, the people do not seem to care about the future because they are just waiting for Big Brother to tell them what to do. While our history is not being rewritten and controlled, our future is dependent on the past to a degree. My future is planned out based on the assumption that our country will be safe and protected from terrorism. Our future as a nation is dependent on the fact that everything we have been told about the threat overseas is the truth. If we wake up and find out the threat is greater than we were told, our future becomes unpredictable. It will affect our personal security and it will change our trust and perceptions of the past. I had a friend who was the happiest and most loving person in the world but when she found out that she was adopted, she completely changed. She was questioning who she was and everything that she believed to be true about herself. Her perception of the past changed and that affected the present and

The past is constantly changing and history is continuously being interpreted in different ways. This changing of the past is relevant in the modern world, as well as the fictional world in in the novel 1984, written by George Orwell. The government in 1984 has the ability to completely control the past, greatly impacting the daily lives of the people living under this invasive government. The government's ability to change the past causes the control that an individual has over their life to be stripped away, which stops individuals from making lasting impacts in society.

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed,” this quote was stated by the infamous dictator, Adolf Hitler. By looking at this quote through a dictator’s point of view, one could favor that if one was powerful enough to tell such powerful lies one could get the people to believe anything one claims. Within the novel 1984, by George Orwell, one can find that the Party and Adolf Hitler are similar. Both tell big enough lies frequently enough for the people to just accept what their leaders claim is true. A limited amount of key topics that will be analyzed are the themes of governmental control, symbols of the powerful Big Brother, the repeatable motifs of the Parties slogan,

1984, Orwell’s last and perhaps greatest work, deals with drastically heavy themes that still terrify his audience after 65 years. George Orwell’s story exemplifies excessive power, repression, surveillance, and manipulation in his strange, troubling dystopia full of alarming secrets that point the finger at totalitarian governments and mankind as a whole. What is even more disquieting is that 1984, previously considered science fiction, has in so many ways become a recognizable reality.

In the year 1944, famous author, George Orwell, composed a novel about a dystopian society called 1984. Telescreens that observe everything someone does, children who turn in their parents for ideas about overthrowing the government, and a clueless society surviving on only what the government tells them were the main problems in Orwell's novel. Consequently, Orwell's purpose for writing this novel was not to predict what the future of society would be like, but more as a warning. He warns of the problems with advanced technology and a growing need for power among the government. This futuristic novel, about advanced technology consuming the lives of the people, brought forth numerous concerning thoughts about the future of society.

Readers of George Orwell have long appreciated the significance of his representation of a futuristic dystopian world. ‘Big brother is watching you,’ ‘Thought police,’ ‘Ministry of love,’ ‘Hate week,’ are expressions that Orwell used to represent his preoccupation with the totalitarian regimes of 20th century. More than one out of four Americans said they have red his dystopia and use his expressions in their language. Many critics claim that the novel opened up new prospects of political awareness. ‘1984’ is a political fiction in which the government eliminates all forms of political opposition, be it real or imaginary. The atmosphere of the novel is completely depressing because there is no hope for change. The government dominates people morally and forces them to live in constant fear. His terrifying vision of a future in which all aspects of society are controlled by a tyrannical system attracted the

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

Meanwhile in Spain and Russia Orwell first handed the horrific government of a totalitarianism government. In the novel Orwell portrays a state in which government monitors and controls every aspects of a human's life. Imagine being monitored by telescreens that are watching every move you make, or the government knowing every thought you made, you would have no privacy. The technology of today is magnificent, it is able to do so many things we couldn't imagine but is it really that great because the government is able to know by technology what we look up and what we do. In a like manner the novel 1984 has many connections to today's world, we are so oblivious to what really is going on. As in the novel the people of Oceania are so brainwashed

The novel 1984, written by George Orwell, depicts a horrendous future in which the citizens of the tyrannous state of Oceania live under unceasing surveillance. The mysterious character of Big Brother serves as the leader of this dystopian society while members of the Party work for total power over the general public. Telescreens are installed in every room for constant investigation, language is continuously modified, and extreme actions are made in order to achieve the end goal of absolute control over a mindless public. Orwell uses this novel to show that this way of living could become a reality within the near future. The degradation of language, methods of physical control, continuous surveillance of innocent people, and manipulation of history are all actions used in the novel which are being implemented in our culture today, showing the possibility of America soon becoming a place like Oceania.

Throughout his essays and novels, George Orwell constantly discusses his opinion on the importance of past history. Orwell believed in the idea that, if individuals had true knowledge about the past, it would be much easier to understand the present. Also, having knowledge about past history can reflect our present and future actions. In the essay, Looking Back on the Spanish War, Orwell shares his fear for humanity and the world, because " p. 198 the very concept of objective truth is fading out." In this essay, Orwell points out that political parties are extensively spreading bias propaganda for their own benefits. Political leaders have substantial amount of power and they misuse that power to persuade and control writers and historians. By

Across the world, History instructors educate their students with fundamental facts about wars dating back to 2700 BCE and so forth, and also the affirmative or cynical aftermath of costs, alliances, and materialistic items relating to the wars. However, a handful of teachers bypass and omit the most interesting parts of warfare, such as the development of citizens during and after these vicious conflicts. Author, George Orwell, seeks to find the effects of citizens in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell witnessed “nightmarish atrocities committed by fascist political regimes,” (1984) on citizens of Spain, Germany, and the Soviet Union. The government of Spain, the Soviet Union, and Germany captured “tens of thousands of civilians and refugees who [died] in concentration camps and prisons” (Process of Extermination). These vicious acts lead Orwell to fear the idea of a totalitarian society. Moreover, Orwell wrote 1984 to warn people of the dangers associated with a totalitarian society, because he believed that one-day history would repeat itself. Furthermore, Orwell includes his vision of “a post-atomic dictatorship in which every individual would be monitored ceaselessly by means of the telescreen [that] seemed terrifyingly possible” (1984). In addition to the stalking telescreens, Orwell introduces the effectiveness of thought control. Orwell uses characters and organizations such as The Party, who controls its citizens’ thoughts, as well as their feelings, to show

This comment shows the oppression and constant fear that Winston had suddenly opened his eyes to see. There is an inherent lack of freedom that arises from this absolute control, with Winston even going to question if his thoughts truly belong to him. What generates the most fear, however, is not what The Party can hear or see, but what The Party will do suppress those who question its ultimate