George Orwell's Power In 1984

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. With the sole concept of Big Brother the party knows and acts on what is required to scare society to conform to the bigger picture. With suppressed people there will always be hatred with a person's current position or

The narrator vividly depicts the progression of The Hate. While O’Brien sensibly skips the show, Winston chooses to attend. The noise that the Hate generated was so harsh it set “one’s teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one’s neck” (Orwell 15). The pure irritation of the sound gives the impression of a rough environment. With Big Brother being the ultimate power, his use of Two Minutes Hate sets up the scene for blame. Regardless if people want to blame enemies of the party for their current struggle, they have to get all of the built up resentment. The crowd listens to the initial propaganda that the telescreen spits out then there became “hisses here and there among the audience” (Orwell 15). The reality of accusing a different person each week for the life a person lives is foolish but society is given no choice but to truly believe they are, in a way, standing up for themselves. An effective method the party also uses is projecting a picture of Emmanuel Goldstein. It symbolizes no matter how high or powerful someone is, if they rebel against the party's goals, they will be condemned to death. Two Minutes Hate exemplifies the excuses the government uses to maintain absolute power. “FBI wants a "backdoor" into encrypted products… to build security flaws into their encrypted products so that the government can break

The narrator is highlighting the impact of Big Brother’s face looking down into the submissive people. Wistons effect from staring into the eyes of Big Brother is shown to set a standard of concern for the view of the party. Winston feels a sense of uneasiness as Big Brothers “dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own” (Orwell 4). It is two completely different regimes when both have an absolute controlling government, but one has a symbol of the parties abusive discipline. For the lower class, they have a poor standard of living with nothing beautiful in the world. To exploit the minds of the depressed, there is no “colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere” (Orwell 4). This technique is the most subtly cruel manipulation that the party uses. To take the glow out of life and slide in a taste of light is brilliantly heartless. The simple idea of Big Brother successfully sustains society to be obedient to the party. The propaganda that the government uses is taking attention away from them so that“most Americans remain relatively oblivious to the government's ever-expanding surveillance powers, appear unconcerned about the fact that the government is spying on them” (Wyden). To keep the attention focused on a secondary option or keep them distracted is a way of keeping the people unaware and ignorant of the