Examples Of Propaganda In 1984

1984 Essay In the novel, 1984 by George Orwell he puts how we as a society could potentially reach the complete destruction of our fundamental freedoms into perspective. While we definitely have not reached complete totalitarianism yet it is not out of the question to ponder if we are on the brink or approaching it. The human race as a collective have already been set into a routine accumulated by a higher power to serve their best interest while completely disregarding the day to day lives of the rest of us. A main focal point of Orwell’s tale is the constant surveillance of all people in the society. Knowing certain powerful individuals have access to watch your every move

Similar to Big Brother's way of getting mass control of people by recreating history and brainwashing them into fully believing whatever he wants, he is more upfront about it but both strategies are forms of propaganda that leave the “targets” thinking they have their own ideas but really they don’t. Big brother dictates what the party tells the public regardless of how true it is, this happens in today's society all over every platform. The news we hear has all been carefully constructed and switched around to take advantage of what has happened and use it as a tool of mind control. All over any and all social media we are told things about political parties, celebrities, tragic world events and even things they want us to believe about ourselves and it all is purposefully placed in front of us to weaken our self admiration and give us so many different and conflicting opinions to further separate all humans.The higher power in our society gets away with this a lot because they know that to an unawaked, average person it sounds crazy that something for entertainment and silly fun like television, could be feeding us subliminal or under the table messages in order to make us believe what they

In 1984 all people (with the exception of the party)wore the same raggedy clothes, ate the same food and lived in the same rundown apartments, there was no diversity. This physiological manipulation tactic completely obliterated any sense of independence and individuality within the people of Oceania further pushing everyone to an even more depersonalized zombie like state. Much like how banishing sexual relations versus overplaying sex gives the same affect of drawing people away from real connections, stripping people of their right to create whatever kind of being they want to look like and be gives the same affect as letting people do anything and everything they want with themselves. With the millions of new styles, makeup looks, permanent body modifications, even sexuality and gender identification and all other ways of separating ourselves from the crowd we have already reached a point where doing many of these things is seen as controversial and creates yet another block to turn humans against beings of their own kind. With it being so acceptable in our world to share any and all opinions you have we are bound to reach a point where we would need to rid people of the freedom they have to design themselves before it creates an even more dangerous environment for