Imagine living in a world where people are restricted to basic human rights like having their own thoughts. In the novel 1984 George Orwell creates a dystopian society that controls all the people of Oceania. Orwell uses media manipulation to control what people say and think. Some readers say it is similar to how Kim Jong-un and Yoon Suk Yeol rule North and South Korea. In 1984 George Orwell created a world where there is an abuse of power and technological advancements, similar to the governments North and South Korea, to illustrate the manipulation that people can become victims of. To begin, Orwell writes about the constant abuse of power, like power and corruption, the end of 1984, and doublethink. Firstly, power and corruption are used throughout the novel and tie in …show more content…
And here again, we are offered the doubtful pleasure of recognition. Goldstein resembles [Leon] Trotsky in appearance, and even uses the Trotsky phrase 'the revolution betrayed'; and the censorship of Oceania does not greatly exceed that which has been practiced in the Soviet Union by the suppression of Trotsky's work and creation of 'Trotsky' as an evil principal." (Nasso 113). This evidence illustrates that the abuse of power and corruption that Orwell uses manipulates the people of Oceania to make them think whatever the government wants them to think. Secondly, the ending of the novel 1984 was very powerful and shows how much Winston was manipulated by showing that in the end, the government won over his own mind. "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it has taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, and the struggle was finished. He has won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." (Orwell 297). Furthermore, Winston