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A Comparison Of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984

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Whenever there is political corruption, power and control are involved. Although there are a few similarities between Castro’s dictatorship and Big Brother’s totalitarian from 1984, not many parallels can be seen. As someone who controls Oceania, Big Brother is known to be very powerful. He has the ability to manipulate his party members into thinking that he is superior. Oceania itself is divided into three different classes: the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles. The members of the Inner Party—the upper class, live their lives with more leisure than the other two classes, since there are more resources available for them. They have access to personal servants, and better food produce, whereas the materials that the Outer Party members get is ordinary. The Inner Party members can unplug their telescreens, which are huge monitors located in homes that record movements and sounds, without having to worry much, but if an Outer Party member were to unplug it, they would be accused of committing a thought crime. Committing thought crime can lead you to end up in the Ministry of Love, where the Inner Party members torture you into loving Big Brother. The proles however are not affected by any of the rules. Therefore, they are free to live as how they like. …show more content…

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The world of George Orwell’s Oceania is an authoritarian society where the cultural hierarchy includes the inner party, the outer party, and the proles. By definition, an authoritarian society has no governing body to protect the rights of citizens. The outer party members of Oceania have no rights except the right to love and obey Big Brother; the inner party members are compelled, on pain of death, to love Big Brother. The only “citizens” that have any rights are the proles, the lowest of the low in Oceania. They are considered to be free like weeds growing in a meadow.

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They function by showing their supporters images of the corrupt western world, such as portions of Donald Trump’s videos where he says something that is ignorant or they make promises of a better life, which is undeniably false. In 1984, the narrator states that “there were whispered stories of a terrible book….of which Goldstein with the author” and the narrator also says that THE BOOK was a subject that no Party member would mention. By telling the public that the Big Brother has a book that is terrible book and suggesting that the Party’s totalitarian way is the best way, this makes the population of Oceania believe that this is what’s best for them by using Propaganda. In both examples, these groups use the ignorance of the population in order to fool them out of a democracy and causes people to support the promise of a better life.

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Throughout the novel, Big Brother systematically oppresses the citizens of Oceania by bombing, torturing, and unnecessarily starving them by way of entities such as the Ministry

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Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police establish incomprehensive oppression of their people where the people begin to reject their own individuality and intellectual reasoning to be more agreeable with the party’s ideals. Big Brother wields total power over the inhabitants of the totalitarian state. He monitors every citizen twenty-four hours a day which restricts any form of privacy. The Party is the upper class of the government who can make laws and are two percent of the population. Finally, the Thought Police are the secret police who uncover and punish thought crimes, unexpressed opposition or uncertainty in the ruling party.

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In 1984, a dystopian novel written by George Orwell, proles are represented as being generally incompetent in the ability to think and rebel against their stolen rights. However, as the story progresses, Winston comes to a realization that proles are the only ones with the character of human beings and the strength to gain consciousness to overthrow the party. Through this characterization of the proles, Orwell satirizes the detrimental effects of Stalin’s totalitarian government in employing total control and perpetual surveillance of the people in USSR to maintain an established hierarchy. The nature of how the system views the proles is clearly visible through the treatment and description of the proles in the eyes of Winston.

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The two control methods are related as they contribute to one purpose the totalitarian control over the people of Oceania. The people are physiologically manipulated as discussed by the mental control measures, and physically forced into loving Big Brother. This is one of the methods the government uses to control people’s minds, by placing fear into them. The fear in 1984 limits the people into even thinking of challenging the government.

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In the united states today the government has so much power than what people may think. They have control over innocent citizens. The kind of power the government has over us has gotten to a limit where now they know where we are at and all of our private information safe on our cell phones. George Orwell’s novel 1984 gives a great example of how the government controls the people. In the novel they tell us about the government from Oceania, and how they control every single second of the citizens’ lives.

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All Oceania is overseen by a metaphorical man called Big Brother which represents the “eyes” of the government. Even though there is not actually one person deemed Big Brother, he is the “embodiment of the

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