Examples Of Totalitarianism In George Orwell's '1984'

Winston’s rebellion against a power hungry and control seeking government

1984 is a novel composed by George Orwell in 1949 where he attempts to make a futuristic version of how he thinks the future will look in thirty five years. Orwell wrote this story during world war two after witnessing the devastating events posed by dictators like Hitler and their negatively impactful forms of government to show the drastic decline society could be taking if it continued down the damaging path it was taking society with the shift of governmental powers in the worst way imaginable. In the novel we are introduced to tons of thought-provoking circumstances and a nightmarish totalitarianism society. The totalitarianism government of this novel used control

Orwell defines a hero as someone who does what they can to change the social injustices that do not have a respect for human decency while knowing they might not succeed. We can see in places like where Winston says “In this game that were playing we can’t win, some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.” (Orwell 1984). A hero’s job is to change social injustices and that’s exactly what Winston is saying here, while Winston knows he can’t win he still is willing to try in order to repair the injustices of the society he is living in. Here we see the proof that Winston while he knows failure is a more than likely end for himself, he stills wants to go down that path since he feels it is better to fail that way than to fail without

We want to join it and work for it. We are enemies of the Party. We disbelieve in the principles of Ingsoc. We are thought-criminals. We are also adulterers. I tell you this because we want to put ourselves at your mercy. If you want us to incriminate ourselves in any other way, we are ready.” (Orwell 1984). This proves Winston fits the definition of a hero by showing that he is willing to do anything in order to change the social injustices for the people. By him saying he is willing to incriminate themselves he is mentioning he is willing to put himself at risk in order to help others and create a better society. Winston Making the conscious decision to continue down this risky path shows his character not only in a courageous light but a selfless one as well; If he can destroy the totalitarianism government he is living in, even if he does not get to experience the freedom of it he still gave it his best effort. This is action proves Winston to fit Orwell’s definition of a