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1984 Setting Essay

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Describe the setting: The setting of 1984 by George Orwell is set in the future of Oceania. Oceania is in a continuous state of war and the living conditions of the country are extremely poor where the buildings are in ruins. The Party through a totalitarian regime rules the country where they have placed telescreens in almost every room to monitor behaviour and the speech of the citizens. What happens in the story? Anywhere Winston goes, he is under surveillance by the Party through telescreens even in his own home. In every place he looks he sees the figure of Big Brother who is the leader of the Party. The Party’s supremacy is demonstrated as they control everything in the nation, which include a person’s history and to language used. Currently, the Party is pushing the implementation of a language, Newspeak. The purpose of this language is to prevent any form of political rebellion so that the Party can sustain and increase their power. Even thinking insubordinate thoughts is illegal and is …show more content…

Through the telescreens, The Party looks for any sign of disloyalty in a person. This even extends to a point where a twitch of the person can lead to the person being arrested. Every member of the Party does the morning exercise of “Physical Jerks” and then they are to work long days. The reason behind this is that it keeps people in a continual state of fatigue. Anyone who does resist to the Party is punished and “re-educated” through the form of torture. Winston does experience this as seen in his intense treatment from O’Brien; Winston says “that there is nothing more powerful or worse than physical pain”. By reshaping the minds of their victims through the techniques of physical torture, the Party has the power and capability to control reality, the past and future and are able to convince its subjects that anything is

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