Examples Of Socialism In 1984

Jaxon Rush

Mrs. Thompson

Senior English

5 May, 2017

A Socialist Society Socialism is a political and economical theory of social organization that advocates that the government should control, own, and regulate the community as a whole. Socialism can be looked at as a mixture between communism and capitalism. George Orwell published a legendary novel in June of 1949, this dystopian novel changed our future as we know it today. The novel’s name, 1984. This essay revolves around the idea of, Precognition and how it affects the human brain. Precognition is a theory that everyone at one point in their life has gathered information, this information now becomes present in their day to day lives, they notice things they didn’t notice before, their

The theory in effect here is, once you extend your mind's knowledge, you’ll foreshadow your future with this new information. Those who read 1984 in 1949 looked at their world as differently after they’d learned from the book. Even to this day if you read 1984, the mind aimlessly asks questions about censorship, and governmental control that we are allegedly ignorant towards.

As time and technology has advanced, our society and government has become even more deadly. The National Security Administration (NSA) has the a,capability to watch you through anything that has the ability to get a visual of you. Edward Snowden was the man that let all of the world know about this dark secret that the government did not want its citizens to know about. In the book 1984 by George Orwell, this is what their government was similar to. The book has this altered concept that humans can not have bad thoughts about the government, or else there will be

Individuals with strong public awareness are especially concerned about their reputation and how they appear in the eyes of others” (Pfatteicher & Keller 562). This is why when Julia and Winston meet each other they refrain from looking at each other. They refrain from showing that they are talking. They have a strong public awareness that they are being watched. This is the Watching Eyes Phenomenon. In Johannes Keller and Stefan Pfatteicher’s Journal of Vigilant Self-Regulation, Cues of Being Watched and Cooperativeness: “There is reason to assume that under conditions where reputational concerns (which reflect a tendency to act in a socially desirable manner) are activated, individuals are particularly likely to engage in benevolent types of behavior” (Keller & Pfatteicher 365). In most situations, when being watched, people try to make what they are doing look like it is a good deed. As in 1984, Winston and Julia try to make it look like they were not disobeying the government by talking, so they didn’t look at each other at all while speaking in a murmur. In Pfatteicher and Keller’s, Watching Eye Phenomenon it says “showing that the watching eyes phenomenon emerges specifically in individuals usin anxious avoidant strategies suggest that the avoidance system is relevant” (Pfatteicher & Keller 564). Such as stated before, this is just another way that they are