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Big Brother's Totalitarian Government

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In George Orwell’s 1984, the society is negatively impacted by Big Brother and the Party’s totalitarian control, the limitations on individual expressiveness, and what it means to be “human”. Through the customs of one society, Orwell predicts what our future world could look like if we allow our government unregulated control. Issues such as the lack of input from community members and the lack of question towards laws and the customs created solely by Big Brother and the Party pose a largely negative effect on the improvement and survival of our society. Additional issues with a totalitarian government include the issue of persuasion over true belief. The society depicted in “1984” is fully monitored and leaves no room for privacy, this …show more content…

Unregulated control is an issue because only the higher power are making laws that apply to a whole assortment of people. These higher power groups are typically within the same belief groups and tend to generalize their laws and customs without the consideration of a diverse community. In “1984”, Big Brother and the Party are the totalitarian government that oversee all laws and customs created and enforced. Without the consideration of an entire community in the creations of laws that govern the community there leaves no room for improvement. If laws are never questioned then some laws that applied to years ago when life was different are still practiced today where life is much more developed and educated, then the society is stuck in a dangerous pattern that leaves no room for …show more content…

A totalitarian society has overpowering issues such as unregulated control without the input from its people for a productive and improving society. The issue of patterns and persuasion assist in the unproductive aspect of this society, as well as the oppression of expressiveness. Complete monitoring and regulating of thoughts pose a hardship on the individual’s right and ability to express emotion and belief outside of Big Brother. Finally, the idea of what being a human is considered can be pressumed very negatively by the Party and the

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