Phobias In George Orwell's '1984'

However, his efforts are futile at the end of the book when he is taken in by the Party and tortured to a great extent both mentally and physically. O’Brien attempts to convert Winston back into a loyal supporter of the Party. He threatens to release rats, one of Winston’s biggest fears, onto him and have them eat away at his face. This terrifies Winston and he shouts for Julia to be tortured instead of him. Satisfied with the result, O’Brien lets him go and Winston is once again a supportive member of the

Orwell is making a statement that describes how fear is a way stronger force than love. The Party works to rebel all physical temptations of love, and depersonalizes sex to the point where it is referred to as a "duty to the Party". Some Party organizations even advocate complete abstinence and procreation only through insemination. Fear is an element of human nature that cannot be changed fear has always existed within every human being and always will. The fear of physical pain, fear of the loss of something, fear of commitment, or fear of consequences.

Hate is considered to be the extreme opposite of love in today’s society, but what if in another sense hatred can lead to love and love lead to hatred? In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the idea that a hate based society can survive is explored. This hate based society managed to survive due to the sheer control the “top” of the society has on it, the “top” being the Party. The rest of the people in the society are controlled as a mob by the Party. Through constant surveillance, enforcement of law, and manipulation of life itself, the people are left to do what the Party bids of them through a god like figure known as Big Brother. The most apparent manipulation that can be seen throughout the book is the manipulation of love and hatred. The Party uses the hatred for Emmanuel Goldstein and Eurasia or Eastasia to rally the people in hating the enemy and loving Big Brother. Through the manipulation of human emotion the Party can do whatever they want because they have the power to do so. Given how one's hatred can fuel one's love and vice versa for an entity which in turn causes the person to do anything for said entity, virtually anything can be possible due the fact that it is demanded through emotion. This is why in the novel 1984 shows that a society based on hate can survive.

Paranoia an uncontrollable emotion that refers to the suspicion or perception that one has against a hostile or aggressive figure or horror. It can often lead to the point of delusion or irrationality in the person. This emotion is catastrophic, it takes over people's minds and bodies, making their “true” self disappear. Once the fear is inside of a person it is hard to overcome. 1984, is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell. He writes about what he imagines the year 1984 will be like, based off of his knowledge about war, fear, and totalitarian governments in the 1940s and 50s. George Orwell, has personal experience of innocent people that were haunted by paranoia, and is one of the key reasons he decided to become an author and write this book. Paranoia is a frequent recurring topic in this novel, that many citizens in the city of Oceania experience, most importantly, the main character, Winston. People in Airstrip one are haunted by Big brother and the Party, because of their cruel ways of order. Big Brother is a real life representation of dictators from World War Ⅱ, but mostly portrays qualities like Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union. The party ruled under Big Brother, making policies, claims, and decisions for Oceania. Paranoia always has been an analytical part of governments, and is so influential in 1984. This feeling exhibits the true meaning of fear and the alterations that come along with the power a certain group or figure holds above a

I just wanted to sleep and not wake up. I mean what are the chances of still being alive in the next three days. The Party by now probably knows that i'm hiding the diary... it's a just a matter of time till i'm gone. In 1948 by George Orwell the theme seen is, fear is power that others have over you.

Fear within the ignorant animals of Animal Farm and defeated humans of 1984 exist to uphold each novel’s totalitarian government. Each of these George Orwell novels delve into the power and manipulation of an absolute dictatorship. Napoleon in Animal Farm and Big Brother in 1984 both claim the newly established system of authority is of superior quality than the preceding regime. Apprehension is due to both fictional and realistic threats, twisted for the government’s power-hungry use. Feelings of fear permit the pigs and the Party to control devotion and independence in ignorant citizens. Animal Farm and 1984 simulate fear utilized by authoritarian rule to control, keep citizens loyal and modify reality. George Orwell’s two novels warn

Once caught, Orwell writes that Winston must undergo a form of drastic mental “treatment.” “You are mentally deranged. You suffer form a defective memory…fortunately it’s curable”(Part 3, Chapter 2). O’Brien describes Winston’s mind as the same way Freud would diagnose a patient with a disorder. Winston in fact goes under a similar process that closely relates to the psychoanalytic treatment. “We gather in detail what the peculiarities of the Unconscious are, and we may hope to learn still more about them by a profounder instigation of the processes…”(Freud 324). According to O’Brien, Winston seems to have developed a mental disease that causes him to have delusions. Winston’s dreams, which Freud considers “a highly valuable aid into psycho-analysis technique” and an “insight into the unconscious,” are put under inspection and further investigated by O’Brien to study and gain knowledge of how to “cure” Winston’s mind. It is then when Winston’s nightmares of rats gives O’Brien the key component to understand how he will strengthen Winston’s ego and superego according to the views of the Party.

O’Brien, an antagonist in George Orwell’s novel, describes a society based on hate and suffering would be able to exist for very long time. The intoxication of power and the thrill of victory would be enough motivation for people to continue living without friendship or love because people naturally want to feel superior to others. Although the ability to live or adapt in such a society is not what the majority can survive for a long time in because the society could destroy itself. A society can survive in this kind of society only if it was isolated and if its leader is able to alter history, manipulate language, and physically control its constituents. This kind of society has also happened in our world which already proves that a society based on hate and suffering can survive and exist for a long time.

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.

Love and fear coincide in every way. We are afraid to fall in love, but love those we fear. The reason being is that these are two of the strongest human emotions. In George Orwell’s 1984, we experience a world lacking love and overruled by fear. A government infatuated with striking fear in its citizens. The Party, does not, “merely destroy our enemies, we change them.” (3.2.99) Orwell scares us with his novel to warn us of a possible future, if we do not change our ways.

Who tells everyone what to post on Facebook, what to tweet, what pictures to take or if they are even allowed to take them? Anyone can post or say whatever they want at any given time, that is what freedom is. However, it is not like that in George Orwell’s novel 1984. The characters in 1984 do not experience freedom as evidenced by the paranoia they suffer through, the lack of vocabulary they are allowed to use, and the fact they are constantly watched.

It's a Thursday afternoon my mom comes home from work and off to the orthodontist we go. I checking in and sit down in the first chair and see Dr. Bartley. He's always happy to see me and my mother. After he tightens my braces my mom's up next. After my mother is done he does his usual routine of asking us if we are feeling any discomfort or pain and as always our answer is no. He then laughs and says, “Are you sure?” and we always answer yes knowing that my mom will be coming back a week later complaining about her wire.

Who control the present controls the past.” (Orwell 2016, Ch. 3 pg. 34) The motif, is a reminder of the Party’s technique of falsify history to brainwash and cause the psychological break down of its people. Orwell constantly foreshadows the outcome in the Ministry of Love, by Winston’s immense fear of rats, this fear first presented itself in the secret room that Winston and Julia frequently occupied, “’Rats!’ murmured Winston. ‘In this room!’…’Of all horrors in the world – a rat!’” (Orwell 2016, Ch. 4 pg. 137) This foundation fear, that the Party soon discovered, would become the very thing that would unravel Winston. As foreshadowed, when Winston is tortured in Room 101 in the ironically named Ministry of Love, it was done with rats. Winston’s fear of rats terrified him enough to betray Julia. Orwell used foreshadowing, propaganda writing styles and personification in the novels to depict how the dictators have power through actions and how the actions of their subjects have

Winston’s fears are further shown later in the book when his neighbor comes over. At first he believes it is the thought police coming to take him away but instead it was Mrs. Parson, his neighbor. This event does a good job of showing readers the kind of fear that the people of Oceania live in. At home, a place where people should be safe and secure, citizens are spied on, watched, and listened to.

Have you ever wanted something so bad you did anything for it. Have you harmed somebody to get what you wanted. Then, when you got what you wanted, you realised it wasn’t worth all that you did. If you read the story 1984 by George Orwell you might have learned this lesson. What happened in that story was that Wilson wanted the people to have more power, but the government realised what he was doing, so they tricked him into coming into a trap, then they tortured him until he was broken and his values were gone. This shows that the theme was things are not always as they appear.