Grace Edwards 4/4/23 Period 2 English 10 H 1984 Final The strength it takes to follow society is minimal, but the strength to create change is unbearable. In George Orwell’s 1984, Oceania is harshly watched and controlled by, what they call “the party” or “big brother,” a profoundly communist government that allows for no individuality or even freedom is thought/speech. Due to this controlling society, my advertisement allows Winston to promote awareness of the party’s power and control over everyone in society.
The novel 1984 by George Orwell depicts a dystopian society in which a single ruling party controls every aspect of its people's lives through different forms of propaganda. Winston, the main character of the novel, is a middle aged man who recounts the totalitarian society through his eyes. The Supreme leader of the ruling party, Big Brother, uses propaganda by not only posting his face around the land, but also by engraving children's minds with an allegiance to himself. In 1984 Winston makes the observation that “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible” due to the immense use of propaganda to brainwash them (Orwell 24).
1984: Book Report 1984 was a book written by George Orwell in 1949 as a cautionary tale. He had written it during World War II and had seen the rise of Stalin and Hitler, causing him to fear a totalitarian takeover. It follows Winston Smith, a 39-year-old man living in Oceania, one of three totalitarian superstates, the other two being Eastasia and Eurasia, and how he navigates this world where his every action and every thought is monitored. Winston is against the regime that the party follows. This essay will focus on how media was used to push propaganda, and intrapersonal communication that Winston had done throughout the book.
In the novel “1984” by George Orwell, nonconformity throughout a society is presented through the point of view of its main character, Winston. In Oceania, the society is heavily ran by their government. “Big Brother” is a closed party which always watches the people of Oceania as a way to keep control. They work to keep the people in check and fear them in order for them to be more easily manipulated. Creativity and any form of individuality is practically forbidden due to the government’s fear of being overthrown.
In dystopian literature human rights are stripped away from the common population to ensure the maintenance of power from the government without the threat of rebellion. The lack of basic human rights in these societies prevent forming close relationships and force citizens to become extremely loyal to the government. Also by preventing the freedom of speech, these governments can easily promote their own propaganda without the threat of opposition. In the dystopian novels written by George Orwell and Margaret Atwood the survival of the structure of these societies are supported by the suppression of human rights. Self expression by definition is communicating your own inidividuality through clothing, hairstyle (etc.).
The book “1984” revolves around a man named Winston Smith, an innocent and kind man in a scrambled up totalitarian world in Oceania. Winson is works for the Ministry of Truth, he is responsible for historical revision in his world, such as writing newspapers to match historic records to support the party line. In contrast to Winston's job at the Ministry of Truth, he does the rebellious act of writing in a diary, it seeks to reconfigure language as something subjective and personal. The reader is seeing through his point of view; the suffering and pain citizens have to endure, we well as the constant historic changes in the world of Oceania. There is absolutely no privacy in this world, except in undisclosed areas, two-way telescreens are installed in every public and private room in Oceania including bathrooms.
Have you ever felt like the internet changes your opinions on a subject? In “1984” by George Orwell The government controlled people's thoughts and decisions through the use of propaganda. According to American Security Project “Propaganda is intended specifically to influence an audience's opinion or action rather than simply inform as do public affairs''(Mull) The World powers like China and the United States use propaganda on a day to day basis and in simple terms propaganda is used to influence a group or individual on a topic. American Security Project also speaks about how The US Government Propagandized its own citizens just like how in 1984 the Party used propaganda to control the citizens of Oceania.
Totalitarian governments have consistently been searching for a method to obtain absolute power. It took Stalin years to find a system powerful enough to keep the people repressed until his downfall of the USSR. Hitler’s ideas were strong enough to maintain power for roughly ten years before he became to greedy. The required manner achieve power, to the extent of absolute control, is known to the party. The awareness of what needs to be done is the single distinguisher from past totalitarian governments that the party holds.
The book "1984" by George Orwell depicts Great Britain in the year 1984 where Great Britain is now renamed Airstrip One. In Airstrip One a high entity known as Big Brother along with a group called The Party control the citizens of Airstrip one. Big Brother and The Party are the government of Airstrip One and they control the citizens of Airstrip One by controlling two things, the media what gets said written and broadcasted on any source of media and they control the people 's perception of reality. " 1984" tells us that Big Brother and The Party are able to control what the people perceive as real by controlling the minds of the people as said by a character in "1984", the character says "we control matter because we control the mind"(O 'brien page 264).
Imagine being followed everywhere by a government agent. They’re watching your every move, and they’ll report you if you even make a wrong facial movement. This is essentially the case in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Run by an English socialist government called the Party, the people’s every move is watched through telescreens. Citizens are not individual, but rather an extension of the Party.
Speaking out against the regime is a dangerous act that can result in the death of you and your entire family. In Oceania, the society in Orwell’s 1984, even having an anti Big Brother (Oceania’s equivalent to Kim Jong Un) thought will result in death. Throughout the novel, Orwell shows the deterioration of a man’s humanity at the hands of Big Brother. George Orwell’s 1984 explores the freedom of human thought and what can cause that to be manipulated; it serves as a warning against a government that will take away the main facet of humanity: freedom of thought.
In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the main theme is of conformity to the wants of society and the government. Themes of dehumanization of our species, as well as the danger of a totalitaristic state are repeatedly expressed. Orwell demonstrates this theme by using setting and characters in the novel. The setting helps to convey the theme because of the world and kind of city that the main character lives in. Winston’s every move is watched and controlled by the governmental figurehead known as “big brother”.
In 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian society pervaded by government control and the obsolescence of human emotion and society. Winston is forced to confront the reality of a totalitarian rule where the residents of Oceania are manipulated to ensure absolute government control and servitude of the people. The theme of totalitarianism and dystopia is employed in 1984 to grant absolute power to the government and ensure the deference of the people through the proliferation of propaganda, the repudiation of privacy and freedom, and the eradication of human thought and values. The repudiation of privacy and independent thought and the ubiquity of government surveillance is employed to secure absolute power to the government over the populace
Fahad Alrebdi Mr. John Smallwood ENG4U September 6, 2014 Julia and Winston In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell presents the protagonist, Winston Smith and his lover Julia in Oceania, under the rule of Big Brother. Under this totalitarian regime, both characters are Party members. Winston works in the Records department of the Ministry of Truth while Julia works in the Fiction department of the Ministry of Truth.
The role of media in the society presented in the novel by George Orwell, 1984 cannot be underestimated nor can the commentary about the possible future in the novel be ignored. One of Orwell’s astute observations about politics and society that forms the axis around which his novel 1984 is tshat the media have an incredible degree of influence with respect to shaping thought. While the responsibility of journalism, whether in print or electronic format, is to inform the citizens of facts (Kosicki 114), the fact of the matter is that the media are by no means neutral (Cohn 25). The use and misuse of journalism as an instrument of propaganda is one of the central motifs in Orwell’s 1984, and the concerns that George Orwell articulates in
