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1984 George Orwell Essay

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An aspect I liked about 1984 was how Big Brother led citizens of Oceania to believe some people could get away with false ideas. Readers were led to believe that Winston would get away with having Goldstein's book; they believed he could read it freely and were led to believe false ideas like 2+2=5. Throughout the novel, George Orwell keeps giving readers false hope and ideas. Though he created a world built on deception, Orwell got more wrong in his predictions for the future than he got right. The world will never succumb to a totalitarian society. George Orwell displayed a dystopian universe with three large superstates. George Orwell didn’t consider how unlikely something like this was to happen. He named these superstates Oceania, Eastasia, …show more content…

It was a blow struck against the party. It was a political act” (Orwell 126). Winston explains how they use emotions as political acts because that's how the government controls a person's mind. Seeing this written in George Orwell's text, I thought of how life would be if that were our government. The only problem is that I can’t think of life ever succumbing to this. George Orwell depicted future technology as almost being very accurate. As everyone knows, almost everyone carries a cellular device in their pocket or on their person. Phones, as we know it, listen and track us. George Orwell added to his story the idea of telescreens. George Orwell described them as listening and tracking devices, which is basically what a cellphone is. For example, George Orwell states, “Your worst enemy, he reflected, is your own nervous system. At any moment, the tension inside you is liable to translate itself into some visible symptom” (63-64). George Orwell explains how you're so heavily watched that anything you do is recorded and never forgotten and can end up being punishable. Orwell got more wrong than he did right. George Orwell described unrealistic political ideologies and unrealistic

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