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Propaganda In The Novel 1984 By George Orwell

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In the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a totalitarian dystopian world in which there is no freedom and the citizens are brainwashed. The Party creates fear through propaganda and strict laws with the goal of controlling every aspect of the citizen’s life to the point where they don’t have a sense of individuality. Winston, the main character, wasn’t as brainwashed as the other citizens. He was aware of all the lies and the way in which the Party controlled the citizens The Party’s main slogan was: “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” (Page 4). When the novel was published in 1949, it was considered as a “futuristic” novel, which represented how the world was going to become. I believe that in some aspects, Orwell’s ideas became relevant and significant to our society because of the telescreens, the state control, the lies, and the endless wars among the spies.

In the novel, most of the public and private places have telescreens that were constantly on, broadcasting government propaganda. They were also a way of monitoring and spying on people’s lives, with the telescreens the government could see and hear everything that the citizens were doing. “The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be …show more content…

“The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, concerned itself with war, the Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order and the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.” This was the Party’s way of using “doublethink” by giving ironic names to the branches to hide the truth. These were the three slogans of the Party that stood out in bold, which were constantly being repeated and shown to the public to brainwash

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Another tactic used by a totalitarian government will use is the control of information. For example, you must always have your tele-screens on so that the party can use their propaganda against the citizens of Oceania; CANT FIND REAL WORLD EXAMPLE HERE. Another form of information that is controlled by the party is Oceania's history. In fact, Winston works in an agency for the party which rewrites everything such that the party is never seen as making mistakes.

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(Orwell 3-4). In 1984, telescreens are everywhere, they speak, record, and scan all areas within its reach. These are designed to spy on people, never allowing anyone to ever be alone, lessening the number of people that will rebel against Big Brother. Society is constantly around technology (not much of a choice), people are thought police that will see that you are guilty of committing a thought crime (thinking any bad thought against Big Brother). In this novel, thoughts are not private anymore.

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Propaganda; information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Propaganda is a very manipulative method of controlling the audience's attitudes. In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, Winston Smith is a member of the outer party in the nation of Oceania. Winston, along with all the other citizens of Oceania, are constantly being watched by the Party through telescreens. Oceania is ruled by an omniscient leader only known as Big Brother, a powerful faceless figure who is feared by all of Oceania.

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George Orwell’s 1984 was published in 1949, and after 68 years, some people remark that Orwell’s novel made an accurate, terrifying prediction of society. However, ~380 BC, Plato managed to curate a dialogue about the human experience that, with utmost precision, nails the flaw of humanity that, in recent times, has been insidiously abused. This is impressive considering the strength the dialogue still has after the span of ~2,389 years. Because of how unambiguous yet concise the allegory is at portraying the faults in human perception, it it can be perfectly applied to the current issues of the agenda and ideological subscription. This could be best explained by pondering that there could be an entity in front of the fire, who had the ability to puppeteer concepts into the prisoners through the shadows of the flame.

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Government Manipulation in 1984 People generally rely on the government as a source of protection and stability. However, the government does not always have the citizens’ best interests in mind, as shown in 1984. The government has the power to distort realities and the ability to detect the truth. They can manipulate, or influence people’s minds without them even knowing. George Orwell’s 1984 uses a futuristic dystopia to show how the government is able to manipulate human values through the use of fear.

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Imagine being followed everywhere by a government agent. They’re watching your every move, and they’ll report you if you even make a wrong facial movement. This is essentially the case in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Run by an English socialist government called the Party, the people’s every move is watched through telescreens. Citizens are not individual, but rather an extension of the Party.

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Through technology he can see and hear everything you do. On page 19 it says,“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.” He uses the telescreen to see or hear anything said. The telescreen is a harsh reminder that Big Brother is always there.

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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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In George Orwell’s 1984, the three slogans of the Party—”War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength” (page 4)—are significant paradoxes that are used to reveal the theme of the novel that fear and ignorance allow one to be easily controlled. The three slogans are introduced early in the novel when Winston Smith thinks about his job at the Ministry of Truth. The building is described as “an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air... it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength” (4). The three slogans present

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Throughout the book the slogans of “war is peace, freedom is slavery, [and] ignorance is strength” is a forced acceptance by all citizens (Orwell 16). These particular slogans, that exemplify doublethink, are plastered everywhere. The illogicalness of doublethink completely surrounds the citizens, constantly exposing them to it. The second characteristic of monopoly over mass media is quite evident in Winston 's life. Government employees run the internet, newspapers, and radio/tv announcements.

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The political system is called Ingsoc, a break-off of today's socialism. Life for the characters is not new or shiny by any means, but they are absolutely convinced otherwise. The Party has complete control over every one of its members. Their customs and rules are almost forcibly upheld by every member and are largely integrated into the society. With ideas like the always-watching telescreens, the Two-Minutes Hate, groups like the Spies and the Junior Anti-Sex League, this novel is not afraid to touch on strange, but relevant, political topics.

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Throughout 1984, Winston is forced to confront a society which rejects the central tenets of humanity and independent thought, and which presides over society through the dissemination of propaganda. Orwell’s novel explores the dangers of totalitarian government and absolute control and is a prophetic tale of power and control that must be heeded in modern times. Totalitarianism is employed to grant absolute power to the Party and ensure the deference of the

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In 1949, a man predicted the domination of citizens by the totalitarian government and their custom of technologies to dictate the society. His name is George Orwell, a well-known British author, who wrote one of the most famous dystopian novels, 1984. The novel 1984 illustrates the totalitarian society and the life of Winston Smith, who works at the Ministry of truth and his humiliation by the party of the country, Oceania. George Orwell’s exaggeration and mockery of the totalitarian governments in the novel 1984 is now turning out to be one of the nightmare come true in our modern society.

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