Nazi Germany And 1984 Comparison

The Comparison of 1984 and World War II

There is no such thing as a perfect society. There will always be conflict and disagreement, no matter how hard we try. A utopia though, can cause citizens to lose their humanity. Like in the world of Oceania and Germany during World War II, people lost the drive to be themselves in fear of their own government. In both places, the people were under a dictatorship and had little to no rights. This caused a lot of conflict and problems in the communities. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the dystopia portrays the Nazi Germany government through propaganda, total control, and torture in order to achieve its means.

Propaganda is a method used to influence the behavior and attitude of people across the world.

Everything in Oceania is under surveillance all the time and in all areas. The main character of the story, (Winston) was terrified that he would get caught writing in his journal in his own home because every television screen was also a camera broadcasting his and everyone else’s living room to the authorities. If he is caught doing this, it is breaking the rules and the ‘Thought Police’ will get him and kill him or worse, he will be taken to ‘Room 101’ where he will be starved, tortured, and then left to die. In this place, they find out your worst fear and use it against you. ‘Room 101’ is similar to the concentration camps in Nazi Germany because they also tortured and killed Jews. They had many methods of torture such as pressing hot pokers into their skin, putting their hands into boiling water, running an electric current through their bodies and even more disturbing things. The Nazi’s would work you until you could not work any more than torture you for not working. Winston’s worst fear was rats. This meant that him going to Room 101 means it would probably be filled with giant

“Big Brother” has always had total control over Oceania, but none of the citizens know who he is or if he is even real, but they listen to what all the propaganda says anyway so that they don’t get arrested or executed. The government and ‘Big Brother’ took a lot of freedom away from the people of Oceania. They can not have negative opinions about whatever he or she is, they can not keep diaries, they can not have sexual intercourse for pleasure, and they aren’t even allowed to think negatively towards the administration or authority figures. The citizens of Oceania gave up their rights to “Big Brother” just like how the citizens of Germany gave up their rights to Adolf Hitler. In Nazi Germany, everyone had curfews. If you were caught out after your curfew, they would do horrible things to you. Also, when Hitler first came to power he put a set of laws called the Nuremberg Laws which consisted of laws that would take away people’s rights and send certain people to concentration