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Examples Of Dystopia In 1984

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Do you know the world where it doesn’t exist? It is ‘Utopia.’ Utopia is an ideal world where people dream to live. Unfortunately, utopia couldn’t be existed in our lives. Also, the opposite of utopia doesn’t exist. It is ‘Dystopia.’ Dystopia is a dark world which has the most negative things. A literary work about dystopia sharply criticize of reality. 1984 is one of the most popular book about dystopia. The author of 1984 is George Orwell and he wrote 1984 to criticize ‘Stalin Era.’ 1984’s background is Oceania. Oceania’s leaders make the party to dominate and monitor people. A main character, Winston Smith works at record department as a fixing newspaper. To say specifically, he fixes a newspaper which the party wants. One of executive of the party doubted about Smith and start to keep watch on Smith’s movement. …show more content…

Their rules are very cruel. The party has 4 departments ‘Ministry of Peace,’ ‘Ministry of Love,’ ‘Ministry of Plenty’ and ‘Ministry of Truth.’ Their slogan is ‘War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.’ They control most of people’s life and telescreen which transmit sound and image is installed everywhere, even in house. They always watch with telescreens, microphones, helicopters and police officers. Also, they make ‘Newspeak’ to replace ‘Oldspeak.’ They tried to make words simple and erasing them for removing ‘thought crime.’ The party control people’s lives and even their thoughts. When Smith is caught, the party erase all of his traces that he was alive and treat Smith doesn’t exist. After this Smith is not executed, he has to suffer from torturing. The party annihilate Smith’s humanity and brainwash his mind. For example, one executive opens his three fingers and ask to Smith what is this

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Totalitarianism is a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. 1984 Is the concept of what a complete totalitarian government could’ve been. 1984 brings in multiple ideas and concepts that represent our current world, using Proles, Goldstein, Telescreens, and doublethink to represent this. An example of the poor/working class translated to both sides of this is the Proles, the Proles are the 85% of Oceania’s workforce. They are the physically strong, yet unconscious mass of people.

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(Burt Nineteen). Together, these ministries function as a system of governance over the people of Oceania. They are a crucial part of the Party’s objective to hold total control over society. Another way the party exercises their control over the citizens is through Newspeak. “The immediate goal of Newspeak is to reduce the English language to only a few hundred words with functional and extremely narrow meanings; its larger goal is to eliminate dissent by eliminating the ability to express dissent” (Bloom Nineteen).

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One of the main themes of 1984 is totalitarianism, a form of government in which no opposition to the leader is allowed. Big Brother and the Inner Party managed to keep to totalitarian government through several means: newspeak, Thought Police, and propaganda. Newspeak is the official language of Oceania and its purpose is to provide a simple way for citizens to communicate without allowing the use of words that would cause controversial thoughts. Most words are either changed in meaning, simplified, or are opposites of other words. For example, the word ‘free’ exists in Newspeak, but it is only possible to use it as something being taken away.

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According to Merriam-Webster, totalitarianism is defined as “the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority.” This concept has been used in countries including North Korea, the Soviet Union, and Iraq, by the leaders, Kim Jong Un, Joseph Stalin, and Saddam Hussein, respectively. In addition, totalitarianism is a prevalent concept in George Orwell’s 1984, due to the repressive nature of the Party. This is exemplified in their use of censorship, indoctrination, secret police, and other methods of absolute control. The totalitarian government shown in North Korea, Iraq, the Soviet Union, as well as in George Orwell’s 1984, is unethical and infringes on the people’s basic rights as stated by “The

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The government also employs the people to help create Newspeak, so that the people employed at the Ministry of Truth believe they are helping the people not corrupting them. In the novel 1984, Syme worked in the Research Department in at the Ministry of Truth and he was one of the experts working on the Eleventh Edition of the Newspeak dictionary. Syme is brainwashed by Big Brother and believes what he is doing is morally correct, in the novel he said that “It’s

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1984 is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell. Written in 1949, many of the actions of “the party” in the book function as an allegory for the actions of the Soviet Union, an authoritarian regime that was a wold superpower at the time of this book’s writing. An example is the “thought police” in the book that are symbolic of the secret police, which had been known to arrest people for nothing other than perceived “anti-soviet sentiment”. The book features themes of the threat of totalitarianism, and the near impossibility of resisting such an established regime, the limits of loyalty, and the downsides of technological advancement. Winston is a member of the outer party that works in the ministry of truth, modifying historical documents

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In George Orwell’s novel 1984, it characterizes Winston’s behavior as a man who is outwardly conforms and inwardly conforming. The action of outwardly conforming and inwardly relates to the theme of the dangerous totalitarianism. In the opening of the novel, Winston feels frustrated by the party and when he purchases a diary, he writes his thoughts. Therefore, He exemplifies groupthink because Winston offers clear examples and he also shows that he is “re-directing” the feelings on hate. The reason I say “re-directing” because he’s referring something new or to a different place.

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The party maintains ultimate power through the limitation of words, which is the language that they have created for the people of Oceania. Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, was created to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, also known as English socialism. The purpose of Newspeak is to provide a minimum amount of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, making all other modes of thought impossible (Orwell 299-300). Winston has a brief conversation with a man named Syme, Syme works in

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Imagine waking up in a world with eyes on the community at all times. Every move made is noted. Every thought is inspected. In a narrative made in the 1940s, Winston Smith is being watched by the Party at his place of work and even at home. Yes, even in the bathroom.

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Dystopia; an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad. Orwell's novel 1984 is a perfect example of a dystopia. “The book attempted to show what life would be like in a world of total evil, in which those controlling the government kept themselves in power by brute force, by destroying the truth, by continually revising history , by mesmerizing the people generally.” (Asimov). In the nation of Oceania free thought and individuality are strictly prohibited.

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In the firsts chapters of the novel 1984, we meet the main character of the novel and themes; Winston Smith, a 39 years old who writes a diary of everything he experiences about the totalitarian regime of Oceania. Winston Smith works as a minister of truth as an officer writing historical records. Winston’s life is oppressed over the political control, everyone is watched at all times because there is a telescreen in every apartment, it provides the police the option to monitor the citizens. Readers can witness the cruelties that happens in oceania upon winston perspective, he was the only one who decided to write in a diary the situations citizens were going through with the government. Oceania is ruled over a totalitarian government which

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