Technology In Modernity In George Orwell's 1984 And 1984

During Joseph Stalin’s regime of the Soviet Union, 1984, the Classic Dystopian novel by George Orwell, was burned and banned, because the book shone a negative light on communism. The book, 1984, follows the life of Winston Smith, who lives in a country called Oceania. Oceania is a totalitarian society, ruled by a government known as The Party, whose leader is called Big Brother. In Oceania, every movement and sound every person makes is constantly surveillanced, and one wrong facial expression, statement, or action can cause the ‘Thought Police’ to take the person away to never be seen again. A small percentage of the population questions The Party’s dictatorship, and the novel follows Winston’s struggles to keep his hatred of The Party

Media is seen everywhere and everyday, but it does not show everything. In George Orwell’s 1984, media is used to spread propaganda for the government. Media censorship and selectivity are used in favor of the government as a part of propaganda. Today, media is more influential than ever. The techniques of propaganda are still used currently by governments around the world. George Orwell uses propaganda through the media to influence the minds of the public in 1984 similarly to how present-day nations control the media with censorship.

In George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, Winston, a rebel who lives in a dystopic society challenges the totalities regime of Big Brother. The all-knowing Big Brother controls everything in Oceania. Anybody who despised the Party will be punished, arrested or abused, until their heart desired Big Brother. In this novel, it is unknown whether Big Brother is fictitious or an actual human being. Nevertheless, he symbolizes fear, hate, and pessimism to the people of Oceania.

In the novel 1984, Orwell produced a social critique on totalitarianism and a future dystopia that made the world pause and think about our past, present and future. When reading this novel we all must take the time to think of the possibility that Orwell's world could come to pass. Orwell presents the concepts of power, marginalization, and resistance through physical, psychological, sexual and political control of the people of Oceania. The reader experiences the emotional ride through the eyes of Winston Smith, who was born into the oppressive life under the rule of Ingsoc. Readers are encouraged through Winston to adopt a negative opinion on the idea of communist rule and the inherent dangers of totalitarianism. The psychological

In a world where manipulation is required, thought is crime, and love is forbidden, it is questioned how much of a person is left once his or her life is stripped of such basic freedoms. This is the question a reader asks as he or she is immersed into the world George Orwell created in his classic novel, 1984. As Winston Smith, the main character in Orwell’s novel, navigates through the cruel and oppressive society of Oceania, readers are allowed to see how the oppressiveness of the world in which he lives affects the lives of not only Winston but also the society as a whole. However, as time passes, Winston becomes a character that starts to inwardly question the world around him while being forced to outwardly conform for his own safety. Throughout the novel, a reader can begin to compare the feelings and thoughts of Winston to the mass majority of the population that continues to blindly conform to the government of Oceania. In this contrast, one can begin to understand how the relationship between outward conformity and inward inquisition contributes to the theme of oppression and the meaning of the work as a whole by showing the oppression that Winston feels through his inner thoughts.

George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, depicts a society where almost every aspect of life is controlled by Big Brother. It is clear that the most important scene in the novel is when Julia sneaks a note into Winston’s hand when they are walking past each other down the “brightly-lit” corridor in the Ministry of Truth. This scene is important because it establishes the character of Winston, the theme of control and the plot within the novel.

Technology changes everyday becoming more popular and more sophisticated. Many people take pharmaceutical drugs in order to change the way their brain functions in some way; even more people own some sort of phone or computer. These things change how our brain works, whether they be for the better or the worse. This change and influence that new technology has on our brain is similar to George Orwell’s 1984. Although the way and the reason of our minds manipulation is different than in Orwell’s novel, the technology that exists in both worlds are affecting and changing how we think.

Throughout human history, technology has been a measuring tool to see how far our human race has come. Some will say that we are much smarter than animals because our use of technology. Technology can be an amazing thing, when used in the right way. But, put that technology into the wrong hands and it could misused very easily. In George Orwell’s book 1984, Big Brother got a hold of technology and abused it in a very crucial way. The government in this book used telescreens, that were able to survey any conversation or any action that any citizen was doing. It also was used for propaganda, as in the party was able to show or say anything in the screen in order to get the citizens to love the party. The party also uses other pieces of technology

As human beings, there are distinct characteristics that separate us from feral animals: the ability to create, to appreciate art, to question the world and most importantly to sympathize for our kind. However, when that nature is stripped from us, we tend to become mindless, restricted, cold, and degraded as an entire race. This image is the setting of George Orwell’s last book, 1984. It is a world where human thought is limited, war and poverty lie on every street corner, and one cannot trust nobody or nothing. This system is all due to the one reigning political entity, the Ingsoc Party, which exercises complete power over all aspects of life for all citizens. There is no creative or intellectual thought, no art, culture or history, and no compassion or love for one another. The citizens of the 1984 world, Oceania, are trapped in an imaginary dome revolving around the Party with only one correct ideology, no accurate records of pre-Party time and only one godly figure that they may love, Big Brother. The protagonist of the story, however, is Winston Smith, a worker for the Outer party and a victim under the Party’s regime. Although quite unremarkable, he is one of the few left who dares to think against the Party’s dictatorship. Along with all other rebels — or “thought criminals” — Winston goes through a cycle of rebelling, getting caught, getting “cured” and then extinguished from

Abuse of control leads to oppression of the masses. Metropolis (1927) directed by Fritz Lang reflects the impact of growing industrialisation in Weimar Germany in 1920 through his construction of a dystopic society where the working population is subdued by the machine and capitalist power. For 1984 (1949), Orwell highlights the rise of totalitarian states, like Stalin’s Russia, with his satire of a society fully oppressed psychologically by a major party in charge. Through their respective texts, both Lang and Orwell warn their audience that abuse of power and control leads to dehumanisation of the population and how technology may be

The influence of vicissitudes in social, cultural and historical contexts evokes composers to construct dystopic texts to warn their audiences of power’s subjugating capability to supersede egalitarian values. Derived from post-war contexts, Fritz Lang’s 1927 German Expressionistic silent film, Metropolis, and George Orwell’s 1949 satirical science fiction novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), provide intertextual paradigms on the ramifications of the exploitation of technological power and the manipulation of the lower class in a totalitarian society. Through their overlapping political, scientific, religious and gender perspectives, both composers communicate a cautionary warning to their future audiences in their respective dystopia. The

The relative investigation of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has contributed notably to the intertextual mindsets of mans enduring angst of unlimited mechanical headway. Provided by the two texts, depictions of dystopian societies which encounter technological elevation offer a variety of social, political and personal insights allowing the audience to develop an understanding of the values formed throughout the periods. Metropolis figuratively represents the consequential fractured world after WWI, displaying public inequality brought on by the appearance of the Weimar Republic which was identified as a time dependent on technology and the growth of industrialisation. Nineteen Eighty-Four portrays Orwell's

The utilization of technology in an autocratic regime is evident throughout both history and within dystopic fiction. Through the comparative study of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), the extent of which technology impacts and aids a dictatorial regime is examined through the intertextual perspectives offered by each text. The incorporation of the political philosophy of collectivism, and by extension the absence of individual liberty and thought, reflects both the social and cultural influences surrounding the composer upon the creation of the text.

1984 Totalitarianism and Information In George Orwell’s novel “1984” a completely controlling totalitarian society is explored. Major themes such as totalitarianism and unchecked state power, technology and societal control, independence and free thought as well as propaganda and misinformation are explored in the novel. One of the most prevalent themes in 1984 is the theme of totalitarianism. In the novel Winston is constantly influenced by the absolute control of the party and “Big Brother”.

Dystopian societies illustrate how historical contexts can influence the political and social values of the time, exploring the extent of the potential for exploitation of power. Fritz Lang’s German expressionist film, ‘Metropolis’ (1927) and George Orwell’s satirical novel ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ (1949) dramatise the impact of oppressive controlling forces upon the individual illustrating an abuse of power, emphasising the potential of its exploitation of the populist. Lang reflects the anxieties of the Weimar Republic, under the hyperinflation after World War I, highlighting the consequences of rapid industrialisation and the subsequent disunity between the working and upper classes, whilst