Despair In 1984

In George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, the proletarian class is constantly downtrodden and dehumanized. However, akin to the Bolshevik and Chinese revolutions, Winston and Orwell believe that they are the key to democracy, freedom, and growth. Oceania is a cruel society that views its citizens as pawns and a means to obtain power. This idea is misconstrued, though, as the proletariat are the source of their power. The power lying within the people means that they have the potential to seize it again, to break out of the propaganda and mind control, in order to achieve a better society and grow.

The world sixty to seventy years ago as seen by George Orwell was different than the one we live in today. Technology was quickly advancing along with atomic warfare, as seen in World War Two. Along with this, governments were introduced with the idea of Totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is having total control over everything, not just having the control over peoples’ actions, but of their thoughts too. George Orwell wrote his novel, 1984, to warn people of the creeping of Totalitarianism. He believed that if the world continued as it was, it would end up like his novel, 1984.

One of the biggest literary devices used by George Orwell to portray the problems of a dominant government is conflict. Oceania is ruled by a force called the Party. The Party only cares about power and not about the citizens, causing the. The people of in to Oceania lead extremely restricted lifestyles. “Everyone kept asking you for razor blades. Actually, he had two unused ones which he was hoarding up. There had been a famine of them for the months past. At any given moment there was some necessary article the Party shops were unable to supply.”(Orwell 48) The Party is so overpowering and concerned about only

Big Brother and his government have power all over his citizens. There is no privacy in Oceania because big brother watches them through a telescreen. A telescreen is placed in every single room in Oceania for Big Brother to observe them through a surveillance camera. Every move someone makes in Oceania means that big

Orwell’s novel, Oceania is a fictional country. All events that take place occurs in the future. Due to the original publication of the novel it was written in 1949. Oceania is one of the three world powers. The other world powers are Eurasia and Eastasia. The entire country of Oceania is made up to seen as a twisted, very dark place, with unbearable rules and restrictions that makes it impossible to live happily. This society is characterized by oppression, misery, and is governed under totalitarian. This kind of government attempts to vaporize the freedoms of the individual and favors of gaining the states absolute power. The leaders of this government attempts to show great persuasion that all citizens are well off and can be taken care of.

1984 is a novel that was published by George Orwell in 1949. Orwell uses different literary techniques throughout the novel to show the reader how he saw the future in thirty-five years’ time. To show manipulation, power, rebellion and loyalty, Orwell uses different literary techniques to show the reader the key ideas of the novel. The reader can tell from the start of the novel that the novel has a boring and bleak society because the first few words of the novel read “It was a bright cold day”(Orwell, 1949) which shows that it is not a happy society. The novel was set in Oceania, 1984 which would have been the future at the time the novel was written, since 1984 was written in 1948.

day North Korea. Similar to the country of Oceania in the book 1984, North Korea limits what

( where 1984 takes place) uses propaganda to influence people's thoughts and destroys any potential dangerous thoughts of rebelling. It is because Oceania's citizens

On the local level, a nation is only as effective as its government. When a government takes the position that government is incompetent, unable to deliver services better than private industries, the nation has no incentive to demand that government work. They prefer for government to dismantle operations, forfeiting them to private companies.

1984 by George Orwell depicts Oceania as bleak, low-spirited society controlled by the government through propaganda, history altering, and “security.” In Oceania, Big Brother uses any means to watch upon their people and maintain the peace by the use of anything to remove any citizen that opposes Big Brother. Two main ways of surveillance is the use of children spies who report on any adult committing

Oceania had a totalitarian government similar to the governments of Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. Oceania had a ruler called Big Brother, and he is described as “... simply an enormous face, more than a meter wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black mustache and ruggedly handsome features.”(Orwell,5). Although everyone in the society feared him, he is actually just a symbol for the party. He was feared because it was known that you either follow Big Brother (the party), or be at risk of being captured, brainwashed, and then killed by the thought police or other members of the party. The Thought Police, Big Brother, and the party are the antagonists in the novel, and the main characters, Winston Smith and Julia, are the protagonists. Winston and Julia are rebelling against the party by sneaking

Orwell depicted the non-utopia of the future and the perils it involves in one of the post powerful warnings ever issued against the dangers of a totalitarian society.

First, a government always does it’s best to fulfill their basic and unique duties, which are

In George Orwell’s Final Message to the world, he claims that there will be only hate. This will stem off of a mutual disdain for an exploitative dictatorship. Since there will be no trust or love, there will be constant war against one another waged and overseen by a ruthless dictator. Thus, there will be no compassion or trust, only oppression and vexation. This is a problem because if this is to happen, without cease, the ties between countries will rift, ending relations and bringing about the termination of freedom. If we do not heed the words of George Orwell and take a stand now, this is surely our fate.

when they lack the responsibility to care for the well-being of their citizens, those citizens are