1984 George Orwell Research Paper

George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has been one of the most debated novels in the history of banned books, concerning its presence in high school curriculum. I am here to say that this class piece of literature should be kept available for students, because the novel’s themes about totalitarianism, the effects of suppression are still valid in modern times, and the novels exposes readers to very possible scenarios that may come true, even after the many challenges against the novel such as its alleged pro-communist themes, depressing setting, and sexual situations the novel. The novel conveys a future government from the perspective of 1951, which the book was written, in the year 1984. The main themes of the novel are what can happen if government obtains too much power and completely controls its populace and how they can use that power to

One example of how the party controls people is its manipulation of the truth such as the Party slogan that, “Who controls the past… controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (Orwell 117). The party is currently in total control of its people and they change historical texts in order to favor the Party to keep the people manipulated. This is just one of the many techniques used to keep control, and this practice has been done before in real life in order to make a current government to seem in the right. Which is such a reason for this novel should be kept in curriculum, because it is a way that government can take control of its citizens. Throughout the past, present, and future this will always be a possibility for this to occur and for a country to take it to the next step maybe. Along with the dangers of too much power theme comes the theme of suppression. Not only does the Party have total control of the population it suppresses it. The Party is in constant control of everybody even to the extent of controlling what the people