The novel, 1984, is a dystopian story of corruption and describes the dangers of a totalitarian government. The story highlights Julia and Winston’s journey to bring down the party and Big Brother. It is clear that the novel, published just four years after World War II ended, was designed to inflict fear. Orwell’s vision of the tyrannical style of government demonstrated in 1984, serves to enforce the notion that power and manipulation are treacherous. Throughout the novel, Orwell uses unique diction, and sense of fear in order to appeal to pathos and logos and represent his idea of an authoritarian society.
George Orwell was an English novelist and journalist best known for his dystopian novel 1984 which was based on totalitarianism. Winston Smith, an employee in the Records Department for the Ministry of Truth and protagonist of this story, lives a life characterized by rebellion and hatred for the Party. His doubts for the Party’s actions and its control on truth begins to take a journey of discrete insurrection and the meeting of Julia, a young woman with cunning spirit and a worker at the Fiction Department. The plot rises as both of them have corresponding views on the Party; in this particular excerpt, George Orwell establishes antsy with this situation as Winston and Julia are caught by the Thought Police. Orwell’s use of repetition, details
George Orwell used monologues and symbolic language in his dystopian novel 1984 to convey a manipulative
George Orwell revealed his nightmarish vision of the future in his fictional novel 1984. In this novel, the unlikely protagonist (Winston) fights to maintain his individuality and freedom in a world where the government (Big Brother and the Party) controls every movement and every thought. Orwell adds motifs, tone and an anti-hero to help spice up an otherwise bland novel. First, motifs help draw one’s attention to the essential points in the plot, allowing the minor details to fade away into the back of one’s memory. One instance of a motif is, “War is Peace.
For Orwell is not prophesizing a future of governmental tyranny but instead warning us as to the dystopian possibilities that Western society’s may hold. Today, his work serves as a modern-day parable that not only warns us of such possibilities, but does so using various distinct elements
During his active years of being a writer, George Orwell has made many poems, short stories, and books. It has created a perspective where not everything can have a happy ending. His works include many literary devices such as for example allusion, irony, and foil that assist the reader going through the journey the protagonists have embarked on. It has gone beyond the limits of what an average story line contains such as the protagonist saving the day and in the aftermath everything going back to normal. Overall, because of it is a unique strategy, readers can have a more of an idea of how sinister humanity can be.
In 1984, there are many universal theme connections that relate to the world of today. Authored by Orwell, Orwell depicts what he believes the future society of Earth would be like. Orwell creates a society governed by a totalitarian political party. He also illustrates what may happen to human livelihood if we fail to recognize and abolish corrupt atrocities committed by those in power. The novel states and expresses such relation of despair and depicts the dehumanizing of individuals that is all too relevant to the world of today.
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is written about a future that Orwell saw for the world. He believed the world was leading to towards totalitarianism and wanted to express that Hitler and Soviet Russia were immoral. Using the novel Orwell spread his message of how totalitarianism is bad and how within a world run like that what physical control can do. Orwell also conveys the power of how language can do so much for people. As well as how a totalitarianism world could use this as a powerful tool to run the world.
In the novel, 1984, George Orwell made it clear that power is not the only the ability to control people through brute strength, but rather "power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing" (Orwell). Although the dystopic world within 1984 was fictional, methods such as manipulation of the media and distortion of the truth are used by many real-world nations. These techniques allowed for many nations across the span of time to influence large masses of people into believing certain political ideologies and pushed an agenda onto the public that best suited the governing party. The nation of Ukraine has experienced a political tug-of-war in the last few years between Western nations and the Russian government; both sides have gone to great lengths to increase their influence on Ukraine and it has led to many conflicts as a result.
In 1984 by George Orwell, we find that, in states of oppression, intelligence is overrated. To start things off, Winston (the main character) writes in his diary at one point that "Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4." In other words, freedom is the ability to speak the truth. However, later O'Brien (a party member) tells Winston that "...sometimes, it[2 +2] must equal 5.
In the novel 1984 by George Orwell will allow showing support for the thesis, by seeing how over time, mankind will be enslaved and controlled by technology as well human beings but it. The main character Winston is concerned about writing into his journal, the tone of fear that he might get caught. In Winston’s world, he’s always being watched no matter what with posters, mirrors, and the police are always watching “The police patrol, snooping into people’s windows” (2). Therefore a society within a corrupt system people loses their humanity making them no longer free.
Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian communication theorist has brought a new perspective of media to the world. He said, “The medium is the message”. To McLuhan, what is important, and what changes the society is the media itself, not what is being delivered through it (Telegraph Reporters). He describes that development of civilization can be traced through the different mediums of communication at a given point in history. Humans have begun communication through speech, which allows them to share ideas with others near them, and then writing has been introduced to humans.
George Orwell is such a writer whose outlook may be determined through analyzation of his works. Orwell’s works reveal that his outlook on life is that everyone should be able to fully hold onto their humanity. They should be allowed to think for themselves, express themselves, and make decisions knowing that they are completely their own. This outlook
Fahad Alrebdi Mr. John Smallwood ENG4U September 6, 2014 Julia and Winston In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell presents the protagonist, Winston Smith and his lover Julia in Oceania, under the rule of Big Brother. Under this totalitarian regime, both characters are Party members. Winston works in the Records department of the Ministry of Truth while Julia works in the Fiction department of the Ministry of Truth.
The early 1900s were a trying time for much of the world. Two world wars, throngs of revolutions, and recessions in several once wealthy, powerful nations. Growing up in these tough times immensely helped shape George Orwell’s writing style. Orwell believed that “subject matter [is] determined by the age [a writer] lives in” and that he lived in a “tumultuous, revolutionary [age]”. Though there are a plethora of reasons an author may write, Orwell believed the typical writer’s motivation came from “sheer egoism”, “aesthetic enthusiasm”, “historic impulse”, and “political purpose”.
