Examples Of Dystopia In 1984 By George Orwell

If every person in the world were asked their idea of perfect, each person would give a different response. Some people’s idea of perfect would be someone else's idea of a complete disaster. Perfection is an idea of beauty that each eye beholds differently. A utopia will always default to a dystopia for the reason being that ideas of the way things should be will not amount to someone else's. A utopia is defined as “any visionary system of political or social perfection” (“Utopia”). As opposed to a dystopia which is defined as “a society characterized by human misery…” (“Dystopia”). In George Orwell’s 1984 the leader ‘Big Brother’ runs a totalitarian regime hiding the past and creating a dull future- that is until Winston Smith realizes how bad society is becoming and starts to plan a

They live in a cloud of ignorance created by the Party telling them exactly what they desire to hear. They are told they keep winning wars against their enemy. It is difficult to not feel a strong sense of pride when the country these people live in keeps winning. Oceania must be perfect if nobody has ever won a war against them. Also, there are jobs devoted to simply making Big Brother look like he is always correct. ‘Big Brother’ is the worshiped figurehead in this book. History is modified daily to make sure it is certain he is always correct. The people who work in the Ministry of truth know that “Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct…” (Orwell 40). Although the workers can see evidence of the Party being incorrect, they still end up believing the lies. Following someone who has never been wrong appears to be the easiest option. There is no need to question anything that is happening. The environment is extremely controlled, making it easy to enjoy and