The Similarities Between 1984 And Totalitarianism

In modern society, people have seen the development of technology and the improvement of policy. But in George Orwell’s novel entitled 1984, set in a dystopian world, the protagonist named Winston who works for the Ministry of Truth in London. He finds love with Julia, and they begin to question the Party. The author portrayed the world in his novel was oppressive and totalitarianism. However, In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the dystopian world and the totalitarianism state will not develop in the future society. In the ways of the conformity, the reality control and laws and regulations.

George Orwell’s 1984, widely known for its chilling descriptions of the dystopian society of Oceania, warns of a world in which individuality is virtually destroyed as one oppressive government controls all aspects of life. Decades after the novel’s publication in 1949, various nations today draw unsettling parallels with the characteristics of the government described in 1984. North Korea is one such example, particularly seen as a controversial topic in global debate. Although North Korea and Oceania in 1984 both possess totalitarian governments that attempt to control and restrict individualism, the means in which each government originated and gained authority differ.

Family is a concept older than recorded time. The fact that humans form familial bonds, take care of their young, and work together to achieve a goal is the reason that humanity has succeeded this far. But maybe for not much longer. In George Orwell’s 1984, a totalitarian government monitors everything that its citizens say, do, and even think in order to prevent revolution and suppress individuality. One of the ways the government achieves this is by destroying all bonds between members in a family by turning the children away from their parents (and towards the government) at a young age. To the government in 1984, a citizen’s closest relationship should be to the party. In fact, a citizens only good relationship should be with the party.

1984 is a great book which shows the problems with totalitarian regimes. Many point to certian aspects of it and warn that America is on its way to becoming similar to it. I will analyze the possibility of the USA becoming similar to the regime in the book book by looking at the main slogan of the party that runs that regime.

Irrationality of Totalitarianistic Control Oftentimes, people become so addicted to power and the ability to control others, that they go to far extremes to keep it. In the nineteen-hundreds around the same time, two examples of this developed under Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. After Stalin became dictator of the Soviet Union, he conducted a reign of terror in which he purged anyone who represented a threat to his power. In addition, when Hitler came into power in Germany he eliminated all opposition through execution. He also took over control of all aspects of society with the use of censoring the media, spying, and having a secret police.

In the year 1984, the world divided into three states. These three states in so-called war always. This story takes place in London. London is a city in Oceania, where the people are controlling in every aspect in their life by the Government. Bombs are blown in streets randomly and people die everyday.

In 1984, a totalitarian dictator rules over Oceania. A totalitarian government is a government where one ruler, the dictator, has absolute control over citizens’ lives (“Totalitarianism,” Encyclopaedia). In 1984, Big Brother has the role of the dictator, as he is ultimately in charge of everything that happens. No matter what anybody does, he always has the final say. If anybody does anything he does not like, then they are completely eliminated from society. The people in his society are all programmed from birth to follow what he says, and even turn on each other in favor of the Party. In Encyclopaedia Britannica’s page on totalitarian governments, it addresses social interaction between people under rule of a dictator:

1984, has a reoccurring theme throughout the whole text, that theme is the outcome, or fears of totalitarianism and what it can do to a society. This theme has a lot of motivation from the time this book was set in and the fears of the future. He used three different ways of demonstrating the Dangers and the outcome of totalitarianism. They all are examples of what he believes could happen if society falls between these lines and how alarming it could be to us.

Set in a world with three major super countries, George Orwell’s novel 1984 gives a futuristic insight into the new London, renamed Oceania and under Big Brother’s totalitarian reign (Schmoop). Big Brother and the Party use violent and extreme rules and rituals to control its population and enforce its brain washing ideals. Winston Smith, a subtle rebel, follows the rules with an invisible hate for the Party. When he falls in love with Julia, another inconspicuous rule breaker, they work to find new ways to free themselves from the Party, soon discovering the Brotherhood, the rebel group against the Party. Using Winston’s thoughts and perceptions of the world he lives in, the reader is shown the fear instilled in the people by the use of totalitarian

George Orwell built up the subject of 1984 under a cover of tragic totalitarianism, when the novel is truly a figurative parody of present day class structure. The fundamental character, Winston Smith, is a self-projection of the creator as a disconnected individual confronting the threatening Big Brother's totalitarian administration (Hopkinson standard. 9). At the point when the book is fully trusted, perusers and pundits presume that the subject of 1984 is a notice against comrade totalitarianism and the approaching risk of tragic totalitarianism later on. Notwithstanding, Orwell's expected topic typically calls attention to the discriminatory class divisions in cutting edge society, and just uses the setting of an advanced oppressed world

Taking place forty years ahead of the time it was written, 1984 was written with the purpose of revealing the dangers of a totalitarian society. Despite the large time frame from when 1984 was written to the year the Cultural Revolution took place in China, and also to the year 1984 was set in, this novel accurately depicts a totalitarian government during the 1900s. In 1966, the Communist Party leader, Mao Zedong launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in fear of losing power to the Communist party to his adversary, Liu Shaoqi. Similar to the government policies in Oceania, the Communist Party corrupts the minds of the children in order to enlist them as loyalists to the Party. They also harassed and denounced party bureaucrats,

1984, written by George Orwell in 1949 is one of the most important warnings of what a totalitarian government could become in the modern age. Setting place 35 years after the book was written, 1984 was made to bring attention to what a “futuristic” totalitarian government could be and how it would bring the downfall of civilized society which enticed fear into the hearts of those who read it. Back in 1949 when the book was written, totalitarian governments were still a new and unknown thing at the time with many people not knowing what they were, but that would change as 1984 showed what a totalitarian government could be, and what it could do to get what it wanted. 1984 takes place in an alternate timeline where the UK fell into civil war

George Orwell’s novel, 1984, follows the life of Winston Smith, a member of a social class known as the “Outer Party.” Orwell portrays a hypothetical society known as Oceania that is ruled under an absolute totalitarian regime known as “Big Brother”. Written in 1949, Orwell implied that governments are likely to increase/diversify methods to control their citizens as time and technology advance. One of the main concerns emphasized in 1984 is the government using the media to persuade, shape, direct, and sometimes even deceive the population. It is evident that Orwell used the world of Winston Smith to portray potential issues of concern regarding federal control of the media.

In history, many people have tried to see what the future will bring. George Orwell, author of 1984, is no different. Orwell believed that a totalitarian form of government was close if the American citizens were not aware of the dangers it holds. Throughout 1984, Orwell warns the readers of a horrible thing under a totalitarian government. Orwell’s message about totalitarian government is clearly stated as “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”.

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.