In the book, 1984, George Orwell’s world of Oceania, is similar to the world we live in today, but different because George Orwell’s world is more of an extreme version of the present. For example we use acronyms such as OMG or SMH, just like Oceania’s language newspeak, but we still can express ourselves. If anything, I believe we are on the road to becoming a totalitarian ruled world, but we are still somewhat free. First off, in the past few years, the new type of smart TVs have come out.
You’re being watched twenty-four seven from the time you’re awake till the time you lay down and even during the most private time of the day. As I read the book 1984 by George Orwell it gave me a great impact on how our government has power to do whatever they want, like in the book how people are being monitored constantly. Now the novel is mainly about Government power and how they control their people to the figure Big Brother.
An aspect I liked about 1984 was how Big Brother led citizens of Oceania to believe some people could get away with false ideas. Readers were led to believe that Winston would get away with having Goldstein's book; they believed he could read it freely and were led to believe false ideas like 2+2=5. Throughout the novel, George Orwell keeps giving readers false hope and ideas. Though he created a world built on deception, Orwell got more wrong in his predictions for the future than he got right. The world will never succumb to a totalitarian society.
In our ever-divided world, people are always looking for words to describe how they believe the world is falling apart. Many have reached for the word "Orwellian" to compare society to the works of author Goerge Orwell. His work 1984, is about a world where democracy and liberty have been forfeited to a single entity known only as "The Party" led by the mysterious Big Brother who controls a third of the globe under the name Oceaniania. In the dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell, the protagonist Winston Smith deceives others due to his desire for liberty and freedom from the oppressive government ultimately allowing the reader a window into how tyranny and rebellion cause a typical person to go mad. Winston works at the "Ministry of Truth" where he changes historical documents and newspaper articles
“In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense (Orwell 60).” Governments should never reach this level of control over their citizens. Controlling the facial expressions of your people by threatening them with punishment is overstepping your boundaries as a government. Governments like the one in North Korea and the government in 1984 by George Orwell are guilty of this. However, governments should not give their citizens complete freedom.
Freedom is not something that can ever be taken, rather only surrendered by an individual, thus allowing “Conformity [to be] the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth” (John F Kennedy). This truth was evident within George Orwell’s book 1984, which constantly juggled how the threshold between freedom and captivity had become so blurred. The people of Oceania were not free; but, constrained to a path of life that prevented them from thinking freely without persecution, having privacy, and obtaining true knowledge.. Once a society's ability to think for themselves is revoked their freedom goes along with it.
Most people have taken a history course at some point in their life. They walk into class, take notes on the lecture, and study for an exam. No one ever questions if the information they are receiving has been altered from the truth. They memorize the data they have learned, then pass it on to others. How is everyone so sure the information we read in textbooks is true?
Ever since George Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949 people have been comparing the two societies. It has Throughout the years, advances have been made so that more than ever Today’s society is similar to George Orwell’s 1984 because of the government's abuse of power and control, the increase in technology and surveillance which is invading our privacy and the social organization that benefits the rich and not the poor. Today’s society is similar to 1984 because of the unmonitored control and power that both governments have over their people.
Governments or communities have influenced people without the people really thinking about it. Orwell’s prophetic vision has come to fruition in contemporary American society in terms of the government influencing the population. Governments can be manipulative and brainwashing as a result of having too much power. People with power do almost anything to keep that power. Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA is spying on Americans such as collecting data on phone calls we make and we should not be surprised.
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 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.
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter”.-George Washington. Although the dystopian world of George Orwell 's 1984 does not have any laws, it doesn 't make it free. People are constantly being monitored by telescreens and their own children, they are punished for even thinking something remotely negative or expressing emotions, and they are brainwashed into thinking that their oppressors are helping them and giving them more than what they need. Freedom is having the ability to think for yourself and express your opinions. First of all the people in 1984 are constantly being monitored by telescreens and even their own children.
Imagine living in a world with zero freedoms being granted to you. Imagine being watched at every corner and being listened to at every second. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, this was the status quo for the citizens of Oceania. Another norm for those citizens was turning a corner and seeing a poster of a man with the text, “Big Brother is Watching You.” Big Brother was essentially the leader of Oceania and of the party.
III. George Orwell’s style is fitting to the theme and plot of 1984. The author clearly uses bleak, dull and repressing words not only to set the tone but to instill the feeling of a totalitarianism world into the readers. Orwell takes the use of dark humor, short words and phrases, and the enhancement of imagery and themes to give evidence that connect with the works theme. Orwell’s sentences are short and very straight to the point.
Analysis of “1984” George Orwell’s the author of the 1984 that is a great modern classic of “negative utopia “, This book can be taken to the back ages where their where the people were trying it equality in the system, in which people had their difference in the subject. When reading the book 1984, my first thoughts of the character winston were that he was a depressed person or a type homeless person that was that is goes against the government. After our discussion, however, I see that winston is badass on keeping the secret and not showing it in front of the telescreen and that there is more into it then the surface. 1984 starts with us how the society is based on the book and then enters this person name winston who is a normal person
