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One of George Orwell’s themes in 1984 is that language is important to thought - therefore capable of mind control. It is language that helps people communicate with each other. Once language can be centralized in a political agency, then the thoughts of citizens can be controlled. It will be impossible in this society to think any disobedient or rebellious thoughts. Why? Mainly because there are no words with which to think them. Mr. Orwell lived during the time that totalitarian societies

Torture, murder, oppression; these despicable acts are prime tenets in the governments of 1984, by George Orwell, and 2081, by Kurt Vonnegut. Inhuman acts are commonplace in many fictional worlds, but these two works showcase characters losing their humanity and being subjected to terrible acts. In both 1984 and 2081, dehumanization and inhumane acts are expressed through the removal of free expression and physical violence designed to break deviants. In both texts, physical torture and murder are

Brainwashing, torture, pain. All three of these words bring about a negative connotation. However, rearrange these words – reintegration, discipline, moral instinct – these words now have a conclusive argument against methods that may seem heinous. By enhancing these words, one can change the emotional and logical appeal of an argument. In reality, stubbornness and pride hold humans back from the truth of reality. Therefore, two groups with different options can cause conflict. To unify two opposing

Party. For example, Winston’s opinions on the Party changed as a consequence of his failed rebellion. For the most part of the book, Winston despised the Party and challenged its ways. “We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We

1984 is a novel written by George Orwell in 1948, about a dystopian future. Orwell uses settings such as literal settings as well as metaphorical settings. The setting of what was formerly known as London, newly known as Airstrip One is a dystopian future controlled by the Party and Big Brother. The setting of Airstrip One is where the novel 1984 is set and this setting reinforces central ideas of despair. It is run by the Party, who enforces bureaucracy and conformity to inner party members, outer

in the life and politics of Oceania. They are from a historian sense a mixture of the Nazi party and the Socialist party. However, its ideology is based on the total power of few people or in other words totalitarianism. This organization is called INGSOC or to be more appealing the Big Brother. The main story shares parallelisms with regards to V for vendetta’s sociopolitical system, and

George Orwell was a great critic of political and social institutions as seen in many of his works including “Shooting of an Elephant” and 1984. “Shooting of an Elephant” is a short narrative of a British “sub-divisional police officer” (1,1) in colonized Burma. It tells of the role that he played as a figure of power given to him by Britain but the pressure he felt from those whose country had ceased to be their own, the Burmese people. 1984 is a dystopian, futuristic novel about a society, Oceania

Totalitarianism. A totalitarian government seeks to regulate not solely industrial and legislative matters but the demeanors, ethics, thoughts, and opinions of its citizens; therefore removing the difference between state and society. The goal of a totalitarian government is to replace the existing society with a perfect one. In the novel “1984” by George Orwell, Big Brother is a dominant figure in the ways which he controls Oceania. Orwell portrays a society with a government that oversees and influences

George Orwell’s dystopian science fiction novel, Nineteen Eighty Four addresses the idea of a futuristic reality that has ultimately succumbed to control and surveillance. Orwell shows this by utilising a variety of stylistic conventions such as symbolism, foreshadowing, imagery and repetition. Throughout the novel, Orwell uses subtle events and symbols such as the glass paperweight and the face of Big Brother to enforce the idea of a setting without freedom of thought or control over one’s actions

population. At the bottom of the power chain is the proles and the so called “Brotherhood”, Orwell portrays Winston's hope in the proles as “a mystical truth and a parable absurdity”. The proles are ultimately powerless and present the horrors of the IngSoc society. In George Orwell's 1984, he explores power between characters to establish an indisputable government. Power in Oceania lies in the hands of one face, Big Brother. Ultimately Big Brother has complete control over everyone, he comes before