The Totalitarian Government In 1984 And George Orwell's 1984

1984 demonstrates a dystopian society in Oceania by presenting a relentless dictator, Big Brother, who uses his power to control the minds of his people and to ensure that his power never exhausts. Aspects of 1984 are evidently established in components of society in North Korea. With both of these society’s under a dictator’s rule, there are many similarities that are distinguished between the two. Orwell’s 1984 becomes parallel to the world of dystopia in North Korea by illustrating a nation that remains isolated under an almighty ruler.

Imagine living in a society where the government controls every single aspect of one’s life; furthermore, the future fate of a human. A society where everyone is alike and no one can make any further decisions for themselves, but the great leader(s). This isn’t only being experienced in dystopian stories, nevertheless, a real life country as well...North Korea. In the novel “Anthem,” by Ayn Rand, she portrays the remarkable, dystopian society where an individual can make a difference. Such happenings can take place if the government is capable of achieving full control, although it hasn’t occurred in most areas, the possibility is amongst the slightest. However, this is untrue for North Korea, which is a country with one belief, one structure,

Within the book the topics of domestic surveillance and the use of organizations to uphold this surveillance was discussed. The control of the ideologies of the people in North Korea and the importance of that control is shown in this quote "Within any society, dominant elites are capable of controlling the inflow of information and influencing the values and behavior of the majority...This is why the organized life is so important for the continuous survival of North Korea's system. It should be seen as one of, admittedly, many ways of exposing North Koreans to the information the regime considers necessary for manufacturing the "correct" attitude to the world" (Lankov Kwak Cho 210). The organizations discussed within the research article

In George Orwell’s, 1984, a totalitarian and communist-like government is portrayed, in a futuristic world that allows no freedom of speech, religion, or even thought. The citizens of Oceania, the setting of the novel, had absolutely no freedom of doing anything. They were totally controlled and were immediately terminated if one was to disobey any rule. The “Party” was basically the name for the community and everyone that followed the ways of The Party. Anyone who was against The Party was “vaporized”, with their identification completely erased from any records and their existence completely forgotten. Every move anyone made was carefully watched by the “telescreens”, placed in every room, every street, every corner, and

What if people lived in a society where they had no freedom? They weren’t allowed to think for themselves or do as they pleased. Everything was controlled by one, single person. George Orwell created a dystopian society, Oceania, where everything was controlled by Big Brother. Winston Smith, the main character, slowly realized that the Party, or the government, was manipulating their society to make the Party immortal. By writing 1984, George Orwell warns people of the dangers that totalitarianism places on society.

It's one thing to know that third-generation strongman Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip on North Korea's 25 million people. It's another thing to read the horrifying particulars of how his regime wields its control — through starvation, torture, rape, summary executions and the disappearance of tens of thousands of citizens into an extralegal prison labor-camp system.

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky (Bob Dylan).” This

So as this book has been read it goes to show that it is North Korea’s government in a nutshell. With the facts being, they bring us false news, showing mass amounts of propoganda, or not being able to think for yourself. It must be hard to live that way but that’s the way they live in 1984 and in North Korea. Orwell did his best to explain a totaltarinsim government and he succeded. So dont forget War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is

Established in September of 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), or as it is more commonly known, North Korea, is a relatively young state (CIA Factbook!). Despite its short period of existence however, this east Asian country has managed to crawl its way into worldwide spotlight for its totalitarian-style government, robust nuclear weapons programs, and prevalent use of crimes against humanity. For outsiders looking in, the nation appears to be at its tipping point, with the possibility of revolt waiting around every corner. However, for North Korean citizens, a well-structured and large-scale rebellion may seem both impossible and unnecessary. Currently commanded by the infamous, baby-faced Kim Jong Un, the communist regime works tirelessly to advance the political state of North Korea within the world, while simultaneously restricting their people from reaching autonomy, economic success, and enlightenment to their rulers’ wrongdoings. To better understand how a nation as segregated and restrictive as North Korea can remain intact, this paper will explore how the DPRK uses propaganda and the restriction of communication to control its people.

Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell is a dystopian novel set in a fictional totalitarian state of Oceania, where the brainwashed citizens are under constant surveillance, and public mind control dictated by Big Brother, the Party leader. Thus, any independent thought by any individual or group would severely be punished by the state as a “Thought Crime”. Punishments could be severe ranging from reeducation and torture to vaporization meaning death. Around the same year of the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, coincidently, a Soviet-trained guerrilla fighter named Kim Il Sung became the founder of a new country — the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea. Following the Korean War, Kim Il Sung successfully created the world’s most impenetrable cult of personality, which succeeds on to his grandson, Kim Jon Un’s generation and continues its dictatorial regime today. There is no way of avoiding the incalculable numbers of billboards and posters with military slogans and propaganda. Throughout the nation, television sets are hardwired to receive a single signal, broadcast by the state. Thus, each households and public places are installed with cameras and wiretaps surveilling any individuals against the leader and its’ Party’s policies will be terminated along with the future family members. Even the actual building the “Great Leader” Kim Il-sung has created. All of these are frightening reminiscences of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four.

In this paper, I will attempt to explain why authoritarianism regimes such as the one in North Korea, still continues to govern even though the government is one of the more corrupted types of government still in existence today.

The purpose of government is to promote order while still maintaining personal freedoms. In today's United States, the government implements laws to promote order while still protecting the freedoms of individuals. Americans are not allowed to drive whenever and however they please because there are restrictions on our actions. With these laws, people are still trusted and given the privacy for private acts. Furthermore, George Orwell models a government who consistently abuse their power in society. The theme of totalitarianism is consistent throughout 1984, and creates a society filled with fear and discipline. Big Brother is seen as a Leviathan throughout Oceania’s community, and this all-powerful being determines the lives and well

In the dystopian novel of 1984 the author George Orwell envisions a society where citizens struggle with the totalitarian government and its brutal regime. Orwell displays the actions of Winston Smith, who struggles throughout the course of the book finds his own thoughts and start a societal revolution due, to the grasp of the Brotherhood . The Brotherhood has quite a striking similarity to the German rule and those involved during Hitler's reign. The totalitarian government of Oceania 1984 relates to the oppression of censoring ideas,controlling a group's thoughts, and forcing “citizens” to follow a uniform and strict policy. A totalitarian government likes to use the ultimate power to control the people that live under them and dictate their lifestyle. 1984 The Party is thought of as all knowing and strictly enforces the laws to the people of Oceania. In Nazi Germany fear was instilled into its citizens , absolute rule was practiced, and values were instilled to be believed either correct or incorrect.

In the book 1984, the main character Winston Smith experiences the life a totalitarian government, a form of government that permits no individual freedoms and seeks to subordinate all aspects of an individual's life to the authority of the government, in Oceania. It is believed that Orwell wrote this book to warn others of the risk of a totalitarian government and what might become of it in the future. 1984 was written during a time that communism and dictatorship was progressing. George Orwell himself experienced this as he was apart of the imperial police in India and was around when powerful leaders like Hitler and Stalin were in control. He took these experiences as a citizen and an officer to show people what it would be like if that government was never terminated. George Orwell used different tactics used by well known dictators in his story 1984 to show how life would become when a totalitarian government existed.

On August 24, 2017 the Huffington Post published a headline, North Korean Censorship. In this article North Korea’s excessive censorship of all information and control of free thinking is discussed. Everything from free thinking to jobs are controlled in North Korea. Their society is much like the futuristic dystopian societies of both Anthem and Fahrenheit 451. In the stories, Fahrenheit 451 and Anthem, the writers Ray Bradbury and Ayn Rand, focus on the restriction of free thinking and knowledge to show that people in a repressed society have a strong eternal yearning to think and learn for themselves.