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Bethany Rubaker April 30, 2013 Ms. Schulte Honors English 10, Period 8 Totalitarianism Takes Control Imagine living in a world where politics are everything and all forms of individuality and personal identities are shattered. A world where everybody is stripped of their rights to talk, act, think, or even form their own opinions, simply because they do not agree with the government’s beliefs. These aspects are just a few of the examples of things dictators would have control over in a totalitarianism

Some could even say that we have arrived back in the future in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, with the lack of privacy that we currently possess.

Orwell’s novel ‘Nineteen-Eighty Four’, surveillance is seen everywhere, and is practically how the world runs. In many instances main character, Winston Smith, is described to be avoiding certain spots in his home to be hidden from all of the cameras. The main being the ‘telescreen’, which is Orwell’s version of the modern television. In the novel ‘Nineteen-Eighty Four’, George Orwell intrigues his readers to really think about the world that they live in, Nineteen-Eighty Four

And after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characteristics much as fate,destiny or any supernatural agency.” This quotation from Pauline Hopkins Contending Forces could not be more evident than in George Ewell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,a book about a man named Winston,who finally is aware of the wrong-doing of his totalitarian government and throughout the story he meets people who think the same,as well as people who think differently.The reader, throughout the story, can see how the cultural

In George Orwell’s book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dictatorial group called the Big Brother is said to always be watching you. Not only does this group inspect individuals from posters throughout the city, but also they listen and watch you through private telescreens, which is basically a two-way television. In this type of world it is easier to simply assume that you are always being watched, in fact that 's how many of the characters we encounter throughout this book act. Something should be clicking

Patricia Cornwell once said that “the root of all evil is abuse of power”. This truth is essential to the central focus in George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Before the cold war, people of the west supported the rise in communism. However, having seen the different side of communism, Orwell wrote the novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, to warn his ignorant western buddies about the repercussions of the spread of communism. Through the use of irony, antithesis, and dark tone, Orwell effectively

Known for being one of the most controversial novels of all time, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four transforms the reader’s understanding of oppressive government, but also of the power of language and the danger of its confinement. As said by Aristotle, “If it is argued that one who makes an unfair use of such faculty of speech may do a great deal of harm, this objection applies equally to all good things except virtue . . . for as these, rightly used, may be of the greatest benefit, so, if wrongly

George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, demonstrates that a person’s ability to remain steadfast can be easily compromised due to humans holding other values above their ethical principles. Within the fictional world of Oceania, citizens reject values of loyalty to family, wealth, security and love in order to devote themselves to the absolute ruler, Big Brother. Under the ruling of the Inner Party, the rectitude of its citizens is battered and distorted. Doublethink is a mechanism

In Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell locates his novel in a politically dystopian society. A dystopia is a “bad place”, being translated from the Greek words dis topos. This term was created to be seen as the opposite of a Utopia after the novel Utopia was written by Thomas More. Dystopian novels are written to daunt the reader of how future societies will turn out. The term has become more common in today 's society and is translated into, a dark or unpleasant future. Nineteen Eighty Four shows

In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, there are several elements of dystopian fiction that are present throughout the book. Just five of the elements present in the novel are the presence of a figurehead, the use of propaganda, the use of fear to control people, the use of surveillance, and the restrictions of freedoms. Together these elements come together and leave a large message about a societal trend that was occurring at the time of the novel's creation. Individually, though,